Swazi Media Commentary

Information and commentary in suppport of human rights in Swaziland

Wednesday, 19 August 2015

SWAZILAND ‘TO BUILD $3bn SHIPPING PORT’

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The Government of Swaziland, an impoverished African nation with no coastline, has backed a plan to build a shipping port which will cost ...
Tuesday, 18 August 2015

SWAZI GLOBAL WEEK OF ACTION LAUNCH

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Organisations campaigning for multi-party democracy in Swaziland will stage an international campaign next month (September 2015). Protest...
Monday, 17 August 2015

AUTOCRATIC SWAZI KING TO CHAIR SADC

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King Mswati III, the absolute monarch in Swaziland, is to take over the chair of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). I...

SADC URGED TO ACT ON SWAZI RIGHTS

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The Southern African Development Community (SADC) should take concrete steps to improve respect for human rights in Swaziland, Human Rights...

‘STAND UP TO SWAZI KING’, UNIONS URGED

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Trade unions across the southern African region have been urged to stand up to Swaziland’s autocratic King Mswati III in an attempt to brin...
Friday, 14 August 2015

PUBLIC FUNDING FOR SWAZI KING’S GOLF

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Following the financial disaster of the King’s Super Cup football competition that may have lost millions of emalangeni in public money; ...
Tuesday, 11 August 2015

NEW FALSE CLAIM OF SUPPORT FOR KING

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The Observer on Sunday , a newspaper in Swaziland in effect owned by King Mswati III, misled its readers when it reported that neigbouring ...
Saturday, 8 August 2015

JURISTS SLAM SWAZILAND OVER JAILINGS

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Th e arrest and detention, trial, conviction and sentencing of two journalists in Swaziland ‘ involved multiple violations of the Constitu...
Friday, 7 August 2015

TWO YEARS ON: POLL RESULT NOT KNOWN

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Nearly two years after the national election in Swaziland took place in September 2013, the full results have not been released.   The ...
Thursday, 6 August 2015

KING’S VIRGINITY TEST CLAIMS ARE FALSE

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A Nigerian website has falsely claimed that girls and young women in Swaziland are forced to undergo public virginity tests before King Ms...
Wednesday, 5 August 2015

TUCOSWA WINS HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD

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The Trade Union Congress of Swaziland (TUCOSWA), the workers’ federation banned in the kingdom because it supported calls for democratic ch...
Monday, 3 August 2015

BOGUS SURVEY SUPPORTS KING’S POWER

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The Times of Swaziland misled its readers when it reported that a ‘survey’ in Malawi concluded that Swaziland’s King Mswati III should ‘re...

FALSE CLAIM OF OBAMA SUPPORT FOR KING

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The Swazi Observer, a newspaper in effect owned by King Mswati III, has falsely claimed the US President Barack Obama ‘is fully behind’ and...

MAXWELL’S TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS

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Kenworthy News Media, 31 July 2015 SOURCE Maxwell Dlamini finally walked out of prison in July [2015], released on bail after havin...
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