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/ 22 December 2002
Africa’s last absolute monarch faces a tense 2003 after being accused of wasting millions of dollars on a private jet, kidnapping a schoolgirl, and wrecking the judicial system.
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/ 22 December 2002
Africa’s last absolute monarch faces a tense 2003 after being accused of wasting millions of dollars on a private jet, kidnapping a schoolgirl, and wrecking the judicial system.
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/ 14 December 2002
The Director of Public Prosecutions has been instructed to prepare charges against the country’s Prime Minister Sibusiso Dlamini following his statement that court decisions made by judges against the state will not be recognised.
Southern Africa’s last absolute monarch, Swaziland’s King Mswati III, has picked his 11th bride — and has already paid an ”admission of guilt” fine for courting a virgin.
Southern Africa’s last absolute monarch, King Mswati III of Swaziland, has picked an 18-year-old schoolgirl to become his 10th wife.
A concerned mother took southern Africa’s last absolute monarch, King Mswati III of Swaziland, to court this week, challenging the selection of her daughter as his bride.
The Swaziland parliament on Monday decided to appoint a select committee to examine the merits and circumstances surrounding the controversial decision to purchase King Mswati III a new Bombardier Global Express executive jet.
At least 230 000 people in Swaziland in central Africa are in danger of starving to death this year, according to new statistics released by the United Nations agency Unicef.
Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi, who is on a roadshow to drum up support in southern Africa, spent Saturday with Swaziland’s King Mswati III hunting and watching a traditional reed dance.
Swaziland’s King Mswati III will take delivery of a long-range executive jet worth -million before the end of November even though the parliament of the tiny southern African monarchy voted to cancel the deal, officials said on Monday.
Swaziland’s Parliament has been called into special session to review its rejection of plans to buy a -million private jet for the impoverished country’s king.
The government of Swaziland has expelled all refugees from the country after a dispute with them over their monthly assistance.
Just weeks after the king of Swaziland made international headlines when officials from his court were alleged to have abducted an 18-year-old girl as his tenth wife, he is reportedly eyeing up wife number 12.
Swaziland’s King Mswati III left Mbabane on Friday for Rome to attend a World Food Summit and solicit food for tens of thousands of starving people in his tiny mountain nation.
Swaziland’s absolute monarch King Mswati III has introduced legislation that imposes stringent measures to suppress dissent.
In a move that appeared to end an embarrassing episode for Swaziland’s royal family, King Mswati III has become engaged to a woman whose mother is suing to prevent the pair from marrying, royal sources said on Monday.
The Swazi government said it was buying a million luxury jet for King Mswati III, even though massive food shortages threaten an estimated 230 000 people with starvation.
The young woman at the centre of a dispute between Swaziland’s King Mswati III and her mother who claims she was abducted, said on Monday she was ready to marry the 34-year-old king.
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.
Swaziland’s king has defended a custom enabling him to take as many brides as he likes and said a woman who asked the courts to prevent him from marrying her daughter had been badly advised.
Three children, whose mutilated bodies were found buried in isolated areas of Swaziland, are believed to have been killed as part of traditional rituals to bring luck to election candidates.
As the HIV/Aids scourge sweeps through tiny, impoverished Swaziland, its absolute monarch, King Mswati III, is expected to take his 10th wife on Saturday.
Six top South African judges on Saturday resigned their posts in Swaziland after the tiny kingdom’s prime minister questioned their authority over the country’s monarch, a news report said here.
Swaziland’s chief justice and its top prosecutor have apparently been forced to step down following an unprecedented clash between the southern African nation’s modern court system and its absolute monarchy.
Swaziland’s Chief Justice announced on Thursday that the High Court would continue hearing the case of the alleged abduction of an 18-year-old Swazi schoolgirl by messengers of King Mswati two weeks ago, despite threats from the Royal Palace.
The southern African kingdom of Swaziland on Monday allowed a political demonstration without interference for the first time in 10 years as protestors urged the king in a petition to promote a democratic new constitution.
Two senior Swaziland High Court officials were appointed on Thursday to interview a young woman, allegedly abducted to become one of the king’s wives, but lawyers representing her mother said they wanted to hear her testimony in court.
A Swazi judge and the country’s director of public prosecutions who both defied the government in a recent scandal over King Mswati’s newest fiancee have told police that their lives are in danger.
Swazi King Mswati’s search for wedded bliss with his tenth wife continues to make headlines and now the tiny kingdom’s Attorney-General is in hot water for threatening to dismiss three judges of the High Court.
Swaziland’s Director of Public Prosecutions Lincoln N’Garua resigned in protest on Friday, saying he had no intention of dropping charges against the country’s attorney-general, despite being threatened with dismissal and deportation.
Traditional authorities in the tiny kingdom of Swaziland on Monday ordered the cancellation of a planned two-day strike, saying the labour action would ”disturb the kingdom’s ancestral spirits”.