Tag Archives: Swaziland

Despite receiving a $355-million bailout loan from South Africa –...

August 7, 2011 no comments

The government in Swaziland will go ahead with planned salary cuts of civil servants despite receiving a $355-million bailout loan from neighbouring South Africa. Salary cuts as part of the governmen...

Economic bailout for Swaziland as South Africa gives its neighbour a $...

August 3, 2011 no comments

The government of South Africa has agreed to a $368-million loan to neighbouring Swaziland, just one quarter of the amount sought by King Mswati III to avoid his government’s financial collapse...

School principals in Swaziland threaten school closures as protest aga...

July 21, 2011 1 comment

School principals in Swaziland, a small absolute monarchy in Southern Africa with one million inhabitants, threaten to close down the country’s schools indefinitely on Monday. The purpose of these cl...

Swaziland struggles to get loans to keep it’s economy running

June 24, 2011 no comments

The Southern African state of Swaziland is founding its options narrowing to avoid financial collapse and is turning to neighbouring South Africa for a bail-out as the African Development Bank has re...

Huge support for Free Maxwell Campaign

June 14, 2011 no comments

”This is just a way to scare students from excising their right to freedom of speech,” “Stay strong Maxwell,” “Solidarity from Barcelona. We send you our energy and strength!!!,” “In solidarity! from...

Minister attends successful fundraising event for single mothers in Sw...

June 2, 2011 1 comment

Several prominent guests attended a fundraising event for the Swaziland Single Mothers’ Organisation (SWASMO) at the Greater Alpha Restaurant in Manzini, Swaziland, on May 28, including Swaziland’s M...

Will Zuma’s South Africa demand democratisation in Swaziland?

May 27, 2011 no comments

“I believe that king Mswati III is under immense pressure even from his closest buddy, South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma,” says Sikelela Dlamini from the Swaziland United Democratic Front, an umbre...

Swazi political prisoners in good spirits

May 25, 2011 no comments

The two detained Swazi activists and political prisoners, the President of the Swaziland National Union of Students, Maxwell Dlamini, and member political movement SWAYOCO, Musa Ngubeni, are in good ...

Swazis oppose IMF-suggested cuts

May 23, 2011 no comments

According to the Times of Swaziland, “impeccable sources from within the civil service” have said that The International Monetary Fund has suggested “that government may eventually have to carry out ...

Is the UN serving its purpose?

May 17, 2011 no comments

The United Nations has been a symbol of human rights, universalism, diplomacy, cooperation and the effort to avoid wars for over sixty years now, created as it was after the mass destruction and atro...

International community must act now to stop Swazi regime’s brutality...

April 21, 2011 no comments

“We will not give in; but our just cause does not benefit from an international community that sacrifices the Swazi people on the altar of silence and shameless indifference,” says Sikelela Dlamini, ...

Swazi regime’s “victory” is a pyrrhic one

April 14, 2011 no comments

Swaziland’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Lutfo Dlamini, called the brutally crushed peaceful protest or uprising against Swaziland’s absolute monarchy, that lets a small...

Police in Swaziland move in to disperse protesting teachers

April 13, 2011 no comments

MANZINI, April 13, 2011 (AFP) – Swazi police on Wednesday moved in to disperse hundreds of teachers who were refusing to give up anti-government protests. Police were trying to remove about 800...

Swazi regime tries to crush peaceful uprising: ’All progressive forces...

April 12, 2011 no comments

The police in Swaziland continue to arrest, detain and generally try and scare people from joining the announced mass demonstrations in Swaziland today, in the latest African mass uprising against a ...

Swazi Police make indiscriminate arrests

April 12, 2011 no comments

According to a press release from the Swaziland Democracy Campaign, paramilitary police are detaining people right, left and centre in and around Swaziland’s largest town, Manzini, where today’s mass...

Swaziland: Police attack peaceful democracy advocates and press on eve...

April 12, 2011 1 comment

Swaziland’s police and security forces have detained, and probably manhandled, several members of the Swazi democratic movement and several members of the international press even before today’s anno...