Swaziland Attorney-General Peshaya Dlamini has been summonsed to appear in court on Tuesday next week on charges of sedition, obstructing the course of justice and contempt of court.
This came after he again failed to appear in court on Wednesday.
Authorities have also not yet been able to serve a summons on him, despite trying for four days to track him down.
Dlamini has not been suspended pending the outcome of the court case, but the police have not been able to track him down to either his office, his house, nor the Cabinet offices in Mbabane.
On Tuesday Mbabane Magistrate Lindiwe N’Garua expressed surprise when told that Dlamini had made an appointment to meet police officers to accept the summons, but had either failed to turn up or just refused to accept the document.
Dlamini wrote a letter to the three judges presiding over a case involving the mother of King Mswati III’s intended 10th bride. Dlamini ordered the three judges to either drop the case immediately, resign, or be fired.
The 18-year-old schoolgirl’s mother is challenging established Swazi customs and accused the King’s aides of abducting her daughter.
The judges refused to drop the case, which has since been postponed at the request of the girl’s mother. Discussions were underway between the girl’s family and the royal family in an attempt to settle the issue amicably.
General public opinion appeared to be in support of the girl’s mother who was being hailed by women’s organisations as a heroine for her stand against the abuse of women’s rights in the name of Swazi customs.
Swaziland’s police chief, Army chief and commissioner of prisons accompanied Dlamini when he issued the threats to the three judges but none of them have been charged with aiding and abetting him. – Sapa