Author Archives: Peter Kenworthy

SUDF to mobilise against undemocratic Swazi elections

January 4, 2013 no comments

In a New Year’s statement issued by Swaziland United Democratic Front (SUDF) Coordinator, Wandile Dludlu, the SUDF says it will mobilise the population against Swaziland’s non-party elections that th...

Danish party to support PUDEMO’s struggle for democracy in Swaziland...

December 19, 2012 no comments

Representatives of the Danish party, the Red-Green Alliance, met with the leadership and other representatives of the People’s United Democratic Movement (PUDEMO) in November. The Danes met with PUDE...

Swedish parliament wants government to recognise Western Sahara

December 5, 2012 1 comment

Today [5. December], a oppositional majority in the Swedish parliament voted to recommend that the Swedish government “recognises the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) as soon as possible.” If...

Swazi single mothers: do not ostracize us

November 13, 2012 1 comment

“We believe that those who find themselves involuntarily having children should not be rejected and banned from their community. Swaziland Single Mothers’ Organization (SWASMO) is working hard to ens...

No legal representation for Swazi student leaders in court case

November 5, 2012 no comments

“Once again the student activists, Maxwell Dlamini and Musa Ngubeni appeared before Magistrate Gumedze without any legal representation,” Foundation for Socio-Economic Justice (FSEJ) wrote in a press...

Health Minister: people are starving in 37-year-old refugee camps

October 31, 2012 no comments

“The people in the refugee camps are starving,” Minister of Public Health in the government of the Western Saharan government in exile, the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic, Mohamed Lamin Dadi, told...

Moroccan human rights violations on the rise

September 25, 2012 3 comments

“Severe beatings, sexual violence, and other forms of ill-treatment [against migrants] appear to be on the rise,” United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture, Juan E. Méndez,  said Saturday after re...

Maxwell and Musa case continue in Swaziland

September 23, 2012 no comments

The case against student leaders Maxwell Dlamini and Musa Ngubeni continued today at Sigodvweni Police Station in Matsapha, Swaziland.  “Today the case progressed with two state witnesses giving evid...

Young Saharawis are fed up with futile peace process

September 15, 2012 4 comments

Young Saharawis are fed up with the United Nations-led peace process between the leaders of the Western Saharan liberation movement, Polisario, and the Moroccans who have colonized most of their coun...

Swazis want independence from absolute monarchy

September 10, 2012 1 comment

44 years ago, Swaziland gained independence from Great Britain. Like many other postcolonial African nations, after the initial excitement Swaziland’s postcolonial years have been disappointing, howe...

Reports: Swazis starve because of corrupt, undemocratic and inefficien...

September 10, 2012 no comments

The Swazi government is largely to blame for the economic recession and subsequent increasing amount of Swazis who have to skip meals due to the financial mismanagement of the Swazi government, accor...

“No other choice” than self-determination for Western Sahara

August 23, 2012 2 comments

“There is no other choice but self-determination,” says a lady interviewed in a new documentary about Western Sahara made by 31-year-old English independent film-maker and journalist, Dominic Brown. ...

Global week of action for democracy in Swaziland

August 20, 2012 no comments

Swaziland’s democratic movement will hold its Global Week of Action, which has become the biggest campaign for democracy in Swaziland, between September 3 and 7 – in the wake of the several weeks of ...

Swazi student leader denied scholarship for being politically active?

August 13, 2012 no comments

It would seem that Swazi student leader Maxwell Dlamini is being punished doubly for having actively engaged himself in Swaziland’s democratic movement. Maxwell, a commerce student, was detained and ...

Cheated Swazi Ex-mineworkers link their poverty to corrupt undemocrati...

August 9, 2012 no comments

Imagine having worked a long life deep down in the mines in a foreign country just to make ends meet for you and your family. And then imagine that your pension, or the compensation for your disabili...

Swazi teachers continue strike despite regime intimidation

July 30, 2012 1 comment

“The struggle for the public servants is still on. We had a SNAT [Swaziland National Union of Teachers] mass meeting on Friday and the teachers resolved to press on for yet another week,” Swaziland N...