The Queen Mother in Swaziland
told her subjects they must bow down before her and the King to earn
forgiveness from God to be able to enter heaven. She said they must always obey
those in authority over them.
King Mswati III rules
Swaziland as sub-Saharan Africa’s last absolute monarch.
The Queen Mother, known as
the Indlovukazi, was addressing hundreds of Christian women at the Ludzidzini
Royal Residence Arena on Saturday (31 March 2018).
The Sunday Observer, a newspaper in effect owned by King Mswati, reported
she said, ‘If you are a child of God, one day when you have left this world,
Jesus will say I am forgiving you, because I have seen you travelling the
journey to the extent of bowing to Their Majesties, enter in my Father’s
Kingdom.’
The newspaper reported, ‘She
added that it would be difficult for Christians to please God if they failed to
respect and bow before those in authority in their communities, saying the
genesis of faith was respecting leaders.’
The Queen Mother also said,
‘Whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who
resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to
bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority?’
Political parties are
banned from taking part in elections in Swaziland and the King appoints the
Prime Minister, government minister and top judges. A
national election is due to take place in 2018. People advocating for
multiparty democracy in the kingdom are jailed under the Suppression
of Terrorism Act.
About seven in ten of the King’s
1.1 million subjects live in abject poverty with incomes less than the equivalent
of USS$2 per day. The King lives an opulent lifestyle with at least 13 palaces
and fleets of top-of-the-range BMW and Mercedes cars. In April he is set to take
delivery of a second private jet airplane in time for his 50th
birthday.
International agencies including
Amnesty
International, Freedom
House and the United States State Department have reported on a raft of
human rights violations in Swaziland.
In its annual
report on human rights covering 2016, the US State Department stated, ‘The
principal human rights concerns are that citizens do not have the ability to
choose their government in free and fair periodic elections held by secret
ballot; police use of excessive force, including torture, beatings, and
unlawful killings; restrictions on freedoms of speech, assembly, and
association; and discrimination against and abuse of women and children.
‘Other human rights problems included arbitrary
killings; arbitrary arrests and lengthy pretrial detention; arbitrary
interference with privacy and home; prohibitions on political activity and
harassment of political activists; trafficking in persons; societal
discrimination against members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and
intersex community and persons with albinism; mob violence; harassment of labor
leaders; child labor; and restrictions on worker rights.’
See also
SWAZI KING’S ‘GOD DELUSION’
SWAZI KING’S PRIVATE LINE
TO GOD
IS SWAZI KING SENT BY GOD?
http://swazimedia.blogspot.com/2009/10/is-swaziland-king-sent-by-god.html
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