Monday, 6 October 2014

KING’S EDITOR ATTACKS CHIEF JUSTICE

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The editor of a Swaziland newspaper in effect owned by King Mswati III has written an attack on the kingdom’s Chief Justice after he issued ...
Sunday, 5 October 2014

AMBASSADOR’S UN ROLE OVER-STATED

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Swaziland’s Prime Minister Barnabas Dlamini misled the media when he said that the kingdom’s Ambassador to the United Nations was now ‘the v...

KING AND ARMY HAVE OWN AIRPORT

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Swaziland’s King Mswati III will continue to use the Matsapha Airport for his private jet, even though his subjects have been forced to use...
Wednesday, 1 October 2014

MASSIVE SPEND ON BULLET-PROOF CARS

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The US$1.7 million that the Swaziland Government has spent on BMW cars for government ministers and top officials is only part of massive s...
Monday, 29 September 2014

HOMES DESTROYED FOR KING’S VANITY

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Homes have been demolished against residents’ wishes to make way for another of King Mswati III’s ‘vanity projects’. The King wants to...

JAILED JOURNALISTS UP FOR AWARD

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More than 50 trade unions and civil society organisations from across the world have joined to nominate two jailed Swaziland journalists fo...
Sunday, 28 September 2014

CARS COME BEFORE DYING CHILDREN

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Just months after the Swaziland Government said it could not afford to buy life-saving drugs to prevent Swazi children dying from diarrhoea...

GIRLS CANED FOR NOT DANCING FOR KING

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More than 30 girls were thrashed because they did not dance half naked in front of Swaziland’s King Mswati III. They were beaten so badly ...
Thursday, 18 September 2014

‘LACK OF EVIDENCE IN BOMB CASE’

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Mystery brown shoe box keeps Musa in court Kenworthy News Media, 17 September 2014   SOURCE Swazi student leader Musa Nguben...
Monday, 15 September 2014

KING FORCES NEWSPAPER APOLOGY

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The Swazi Observer newspaper has been forced to make a ‘humble’ apology to the kingdom’s King and Queen Mother after publishing a report w...
Wednesday, 10 September 2014

LEGAL CHALLENGE TO SWAZI TERROR LAW

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A legal challenge is to be made in Swaziland to declare the kingdom’s Suppression of Terrorism Act (STA) unconstitutional. People who...