Tuesday, 1 November 2016

HUMAN SUFFERING AND SWAZI SUGAR

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The bittersweet taste of Swazi sugar Kenworthy News Media 28 October 2016  SOURCE According to a new report from the ITUC about...
Monday, 31 October 2016

SWAZI KING BUYS JET, U.S. FEEDS HUNGRY

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The United States is to provide US$6.35m in drought relief. That is just US$1m short of the US$7.3m the Swazi Government is paying as a dep...
Friday, 28 October 2016

SEX VIOLENCE ‘NATIONAL DISASTER’

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One in three females in Swaziland is at risk of sexual violence as a child, an NGO leader reported. Swaziland Action Group Against Abu...
Thursday, 27 October 2016

KING EXPLOITS SUGAR WORKERS

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There’s nothing sweet about the Swazi sugar sector by Jeff Vogt Equal Times, 26 October 2016 SOURCE The government of Swazil...

UNPAID NURSES AND STAFF STRIKE

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Nurses and support staff at a major hospital in Swaziland walked off work on Wednesday (26 October 2016) because they had not been paid. ...

FOUR IN TEN YOUTH UNEMPLOYED

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More than four in ten Swazi youth are unemployed, new figures show. That makes 280,000, or 42.6 percent, of the 668,000 people who are...
Wednesday, 26 October 2016

ANTI-ASIAN FEELINGS SPREADING

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Traditional authorities in the Ngcina Chiefdom in Swaziland have ordered a man to close his business and leave the area because he is Asian...

MORE MEN VICTIMS OF GENDER ABUSE

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More Swazi men are seeking help from a gender-based-violence NGO. Swaziland Action Group Against Abuse (SWAGAA) reported that in Augus...
Friday, 21 October 2016

SWAZI NURSES READY TO STRIKE

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Nurses in Swaziland gave the Government a seven-day strike ultimatum on Wednesday (19 October 2016) as they protested for more jobs to be ...
Wednesday, 19 October 2016

SWAZI KING’S PAPER ATTACKS ASIANS

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The Swazi Observer, a newspaper in effect owned by Swaziland’s absolute monarch King Mswati III, is running a campaign of misinformation a...
Tuesday, 18 October 2016

MPs PROBE UNIVERSITY STANDARDS

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The university in Swaziland that King Mswati III says will host his new University of Transformation is to be investigated by members of pa...
Monday, 17 October 2016

VOTERS SNUB SWAZI ELECTION

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Only four in ten of the people entitled to vote in Swaziland’s national election did so. The percentage turnout was lower than the previous...
Friday, 14 October 2016

GOVT ‘SLOW TO GIVE INFORMATION’

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Swaziland’s foremost media freedom pressure group has called on the Swazi Government to implement a Freedom of Information Act. It ca...
Thursday, 13 October 2016

POLICE FIRE GUNSHOTS AT STUDENTS

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Police fired gunshots at protesting students at the university in Swaziland that is set to house King Mswati III’s proposed ‘SADC Universit...

LIMITED SUPPORT FROM EU ON TRADE

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More than four in ten Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) did not support Swaziland’s inclusion in a trade partnership deal. Eu...