King Mswati III, the absolute monarch of Swaziland /
eSwatini, can solve any mystery because he can see into the future, a newspaper
that the King in effect owns reported.
Previously, the King had claimed he had a direct line
to God and had received messages from angels.
The latest claim was made by Princess Sikhanyiso, Minister of Information, Technology and Communications, at a trade meeting. The Princess is the King’s eldest daughter and was appointed by him to her position, in 2018. The Princess was not elected to Parliament by the people.
The latest claim was made by Princess Sikhanyiso, Minister of Information, Technology and Communications, at a trade meeting. The Princess is the King’s eldest daughter and was appointed by him to her position, in 2018. The Princess was not elected to Parliament by the people.
The Sunday Observer reported she told the
meeting that the King could solve any mystery. It reported, ‘She said the King
could do this through his transcendent wisdom, foresight and the ability to foresee
the future of his people and in time yet to come.’
Nearly seven in ten of Swaziland’s estimated 1.2
million people live in abject poverty. Public services in health
and education
are grinding to a halt because the government, which is not elected but handpicked
by the King, has run the economy into the ground. Public service workers have
been violently
assaulted by police while striking for increased cost-of-living salary
adjustments.
The Observer reported the Princess told the
meeting, ‘Due to the King’s discernment, strength and tenacity, eSwatini boasted
of having one of the best road networks, airports and overall quality of life
in Africa.’
The King himself had previously claimed to have a
direct line to God. In October 2018, he told a meeting of the kingdom’s
‘People’s Parliament’ known as Sibaya that he had been visited by angels and
they told him who he should appoint as the kingdom’s new Prime Minister.
The Times of Swaziland reported at the time, ‘He said the angels and
ancestors would show him the man who was given the authority to run the
country.’
In March 2018, the Queen Mother in Swaziland, known as the Indlovukazi, 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.
The Sunday Observer reported at
the time 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 too bad. Would you have no fear of the
one who is in authority?’
In 2013, African Eye News Service reported King Mswati’s
elder brother, Prince Masitsela Dlamini, said that God had given the royal
family authority to rule over other Swazi clans. ‘The Dlaminis are closer to
God,’ said Dlamini.
In 2011, the King said God
spoke to him through a TV remote control. It happened at the Lozitha
Palace, near Mbabane. The Times of
Swaziland reported in October 2011, ‘His Majesty saw a miracle yesterday
when he was preparing a sermon [to preach to a group of evangelical
Christians.] The King said a remote control lay at the centre of a coffee table
but something mysteriously brought it down.
‘He said there was no person or wind that could have brought it down. The King said he realised that God was with him. It was Him who brought the remote control down.’
‘He said there was no person or wind that could have brought it down. The King said he realised that God was with him. It was Him who brought the remote control down.’
In September 2013, the King told his subjects he had received a vision during a thunderstorm and was
told that the political system in Swaziland that puts the King at the head and
bans political parties should from then on be called ‘Monarchical Democracy.’
On 21 October 2009, the Swazi
Observer told its readers
King Mswati was ‘ordained by God to lead his people’. Musa Ndlangamandla, the Observer
chief editor at the time, reported that Lutfo Dlamini, then Swaziland’s Minister of
Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, wrote a poem to the King that included the
line, ‘You are living proof that Kings and Monarchs are ordained by God to lead
his people’.
Following this, the most senior ‘traditionalist’ leader in Swaziland Timothy Velabo Mtsetfwa was reported in the Observer saying ‘Royalty was a gift from God’. He said this while urging the Swazi nation ‘to respect the Royalty because it cares for the needy’.
Following this, the most senior ‘traditionalist’ leader in Swaziland Timothy Velabo Mtsetfwa was reported in the Observer saying ‘Royalty was a gift from God’. He said this while urging the Swazi nation ‘to respect the Royalty because it cares for the needy’.
Mtsetfwa also spoke about
how multi-parties which are banned in Swaziland, ‘were a monster to which many
countries had succumbed and fell’. He then went on to say, ‘in other countries,
especially those under multi-party democracy, the leaders only think of
themselves and their immediate families and forget about the needy
people’.
See also
Swazi King’s
‘God delusion’
Fears
over King’s mental health
God is like
King Mswati: Govt Minister
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