Swazi Media Commentary

Information and commentary in suppport of human rights in Swaziland

Thursday, 14 April 2016

STUDENT CAMPAIGN AFTER POLICE ATTACK

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Students in Swaziland have launched a campaign in support of Ayanda Mkhabela, who was crippled when police drove at her in an armoured vehi...
Monday, 11 April 2016

KING ‘STEALS FROM CHILDREN’ TO BUY JET

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The best-known of the prodemocracy groups in Swaziland has accused King Mswati III of stealing from children so he could have his own person...
Friday, 8 April 2016

KING BUYS JET, UN FUNDS DROUGHT RELIEF

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Just as the Swaziland Government announced it would spend E200 million (US$13.2 million) of public funds on a private jet aircraft for Kin...

POLICE ATTACK VICTIM WILL NOT WALK

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The Swazi university student who was crushed under an armoured troop carrier when police drove at speed at protesting students was so badly...
Thursday, 7 April 2016

SWAZI MPs ABOUT-TURN ON KING’S JET

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Swaziland parliamentarians have made an abrupt about-turn over the purchase of a private jet for the kingdom’s autocratic monarch, King Mswa...

LATEST ON SWAZI FREEDOM STRUGGLE

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King Mswati III, the absolute monarch of Swaziland, has once again been at the centre of events in his kingdom. His refusal to recognise the...

MPs BLOCK SWAZI KING’S NEW JET

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Members of the Swaziland Parliament have blocked a move to pay E96 million (about US$6.4 million at the present ever-fluctuating exchange r...
Tuesday, 5 April 2016

DROUGHT AID REACHES SWAZILAND

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International aid is beginning to flow into Swaziland as drought relief, despite controversies over inappropriate spending by the Swazi Gov...
Thursday, 31 March 2016

4,556 CASES OF SEVERE SCHOOL BEATINGS

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There have been 4,556 cases of ‘severe corporal punishment’ of children in Swaziland’s schools over the past four years, an international n...
Wednesday, 30 March 2016

ELDERLY STAY POOR AS KING GETS MORE

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King Mswati III, the absolute monarch in Swaziland, is to get a 9 percent increase for his spending from the taxpayer, while elderly pensio...
Tuesday, 29 March 2016

$12m SPEND ON ROYAL DECOR AT AIRPORT

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As the Swaziland Government goes cap-in-hand to the international community to seek money to stop people starving as a result of drought, n...
Thursday, 10 March 2016

ACTIVIST ARRESTS AFTER ALLEGED ARSON

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Four supporters of the Communist Party of Swaziland (CPS) have been arrested and charged following an alleged arson attack on rondavels in ...
Wednesday, 9 March 2016

SWAZI SECURITY BUDGET SOARS

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Swaziland is to spend US$150 million on security in the coming year, the kingdom’s annual budget reveals. It amounts to 11 percent of...
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