Swaziland government has banned the much-anticipated protest planned for April 12, claiming the protest organisers didn’t follow correct procedures.
Cosatu plans to mount a blockade at a key border post with Swaziland next week to support planned protests against the rule of King Mswati III.
King Mswati III sent his top advisers to meet with union leaders in a bid to avert anti-government protests next week in the monarch, a leader says.
The youth of Swaziland are planning a North African-style uprising on April 12 and are to demand a "total change of the system of government".
Pro-democracy flames have been fanned and may be increasingly hard to extinguish.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions on Saturday vowed to intensify its role in labour protests in Swaziland.
A protest sparked by Swaziland’s plans to freeze civil service salaries drew nearly 7 000 demonstrators on Friday.
Cash-strapped Swaziland is on course for an African Development Bank loan worth $145-million to help plug its widening budget deficit.
Seacom on Wednesday announced that its broadband services had been extended to Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, Swaziland and Zimbabwe.
Britain blocked a $60-million sale of helicopters, armoured cars and machine guns to Swaziland.
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/ 18 February 2011
Swaziland gained its independence from Britain in 1968 and, after creating a new Constitution, held multiparty elections.
Proud polygamist King Mswati III has gained worldwide notoriety for his lavish lifestyle and fondness of women.
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/ 18 February 2011
A change to customs revenue-sharing agreements has left the Swazi kingdom terminally short of money, exposing King Mswati III.
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/ 28 January 2011
Swaziland is on the brink of economic collapse and risks social upheaval if it cannot curb its excesses, said the International Monetary Fund.
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/ 14 December 2010
A US-Italian scientist is tantalisingly close to delivering the world’s first malaria vaccine.
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/ 30 November 2010
Three different women in rural Swaziland tell the story of living with HIV and how the stigma might still be living on.
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/ 19 November 2010
Cosatu lambastes the ANC’s R25-million stake in a Swazi mining deal, citing bad democratic practices.
Swaziland says its prime minister is receiving an award, but the group apparently bestowing the honour appears to be little more than a phone number.
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/ 16 September 2010
Malawi will not officially promote male circumcision as an HIV-prevention strategy, officials said on Wednesday, citing a lack of evidence.
Cosatu’s Zanele Matebula was bundled into a police van with four other South Africans this week and thrown out of Swaziland.
Swaziland’s prime minister said his government will consider punishing political dissidents by beating their feet with spikes, state media said.
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/ 8 September 2010
Police outnumbered about 250 democracy activists on Tuesday as they marched for several hours during a largely peaceful demonstration in Swaziland.
Justice secretary Ndumiso Mamba faces expulsion from African state after claims he slept with 12th wife of King Mswati III.
Swaziland’s death rate more than doubled in a decade, proof of the toll of Aids, statisticians in this southern African kingdom said on Wednesday.
SA’s corporates pour a lot of funding into the arts, but this can become a double-edged sword, as was the case with Swaziland’s Bushfire Festival.
On Friday the Swaziland Supreme Court ruled that the Swaziland government does not have to provide free basic education at a primary school level.
The ANC’s investment arm, Chancellor House Holdings, has acquired a 75% stake in the Maloma Colliery in Swaziland, Cosatu said on Friday.
Amnesty International and Cosatu have called on the SA government to take action against Swaziland following the recent death of Sipho Jele.
Their collective wisdom is incalculable — and so is the collective burden they carry when families are torn apart by Aids.
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/ 11 February 2010
Walter Rautmann dropped a bombshell on Wednesday by quitting Mbabane Swallows ahead of their African Champions League clash with SuperSport United.
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/ 22 September 2009
The leader of a banned Swaziland political movement was released on Monday after a court acquitted him of terrorism charges, his family said.
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/ 1 September 2009
Over 80 000 women and girls, some as young as four, participated in this year’s Reed Dance in Swaziland on Monday.