The son of Equatorial Guinea’s president, who is also a government minister accused of corruption, has been getting cozy with the Mswati clan.
Southern African Development Community leaders have neglected to use an opportunity to lead from the front, following Bingu wa Mutharika’s passing.
Calls for donations to King Mswati III’s birthday have pro-democracy groups and the international media up in arms.
Swaziland’s King Mswati III has become embroiled in a row with the telecommunications parastatal over the direction of telephony in the kingdom.
They speak with forked tongues and attack the Constitution in their sleep. Politicians — we can’t expel them ourselves, but we can Poogle them.
Swaziland is planning a censorship law that will ban Facebook and Twitter users from criticising Africa’s last absolute monarch, King Mswati III.
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.
<b>Louise Redvers</b> reports that ordinary people are losing patience because of the worsening economic crisis — but the king has no answers.
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/ 20 January 2012
Swazi unions plan to strike over impending salary cuts and government’s resistance to democratic reforms.
Coca-Cola has been accused of propping up Swaziland’s King Mswati III, said by activists to be looting national wealth at the expense of his subjects.
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/ 21 November 2011
A senior official has denied reports that King Mswati’s 12th wife has been banished from the royal household after quarreling with a guard.
The Swazi government is being tight-lipped over details of a bailout package that has enabled the tiny kingdom to stay afloat.
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/ 18 November 2011
Swaziland’s economic woes are intensifying as it struggles to meet its civil servant payroll, forcing it to borrow money from its central bank.
Swaziland’s economy could collapse within six months if drastic steps are not taken to reduce the country’s enormous wage bill and spiralling deficit.
Swaziland’s King Mswati III will fund a bailout of his government in a manoeuvre to acquire control of the local firms at knock-down prices.
The IMF says Swaziland’s economic growth will grind to near zero this year as the government’s fiscal crisis rocks banks and private businesses.
Cash-strapped Swaziland has pulled together enough loans from local banks to raise the $43-million needed to pay civil servants.
King Mswati III enters ritual seclusion as cash crisis deepens.
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/ 11 October 2011
Leaked videos obtained by the <i>M&G</i> show peaceful gatherings of Swazis, which contrasts with hints of the harsh police response that ensued.
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/ 11 October 2011
SA’s loan to Swaziland has been delayed because King Mswati III seems reluctant to accept South Africa’s conditions, which include economic reforms.
The axing of a judge and the justice minister has plunged Swaziland into judicial crisis.
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/ 27 September 2011
King Mswati III is unhappy that Greece is being bailed out by the IMF, not Swaziland.
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/ 16 September 2011
Despite their campaign against Mswati’s despotic rule, Cosatu affiliates have been found to be involved in business deals with the Swazi king.
The International Monetary Fund should be helping impoverished Swaziland, not calling for budget cuts, King Mswati III said on Wednesday.
King Mswati III says the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank must come to Swaziland’s rescue, just as they did for Greece and Portugal.
Cosatu says Swaziland will never be able to repay the R2.4-billion loan from the Reserve Bank, and South Africa should call it a gift.
A key beneficiary of the SA loan is rumoured to be co-owned by Swazi royal interests
Hundreds of Swazi protesters returned to the streets a day after violent clashes with police, as a funding crisis shut down schools in the kingdom.
More than 1 000 people marched on Tuesday through Swaziland’s Manzini in one of the largest protests yet against Africa’s last absolute monarch.
Protesters on Monday danced and sang freedom songs in the streets of Swaziland’s capital Mbabane, at the start of a planned week of protests.
The Swaziland government has sought a court injunction to block a week of planned pro-democracy protests where political parties are banned.