Calls for donations to King Mswati III’s birthday have pro-democracy groups and the international media up in arms.
Many white South Africans drafted to fight in Angola still struggle to swallow the bitter pill that their battle landed on the wrong side of history.
Oil riches have not trickled down to the majority of the people of Angola.
Swaziland’s tertiary students are planning to march in protest of government’s proposed allowance cuts, saying this will affect many poorer families.
Cash has once again flown to Swazi royal family as social spending stutters along in a country which is near financial collapse.
Swaziland is on course to get R2.4-billion from South Africa without any political conditions via a one-off back-door payment.
Drug supplies are running low and a lack of funding could reverse important progress made in Swaziland’s HIV/Aids crisis.
<b>Louise Redvers</b> reports that ordinary people are losing patience because of the worsening economic crisis — but the king has no answers.
The IMF has warned that Swaziland’s fiscal crisis has reached a critical point and there is a high risk that the kingdom will be unable to pay wages.
Lobby groups want multinational companies to stand against a government that bends the rules.