Favoured Motoring for Swaziland Government Ministers
While the Swaziland Government is content to have only 12 public ambulances available for the whole kingdom because many are off the road waiting for repair, it has been reported that Government ministers have been given hire cars to use while their government cars are also in the workshop. The Times Sunday an independent newspaper […]
Swaziland Admits It Is Broke
Despite finding US$30 million to buy the kingdom’s absolute monarch King Mswati III a second private plane, earmarking E1.5bn (US$125m) this year to build a conference centre and five-star hotel to host the African Union summit in 2020 that will last only eight days, budgeting E5.5 million to build Prime Minister Barnabas Dlamini a retirement […]
King Mswati III’s U.S.$1.6 Million Watch Equals 6 Months’ Aid
As King Mswati III, the absolute monarch of Swaziland, wears a watch worth US$1.6 million and a suit beaded with gold weighing 6 kg, the World Food Program has said it cannot raise the US$1.1 million it needs to feed starving children in the kingdom. King Mswati turned 50 in April 2018 and wore the […]
Swaziland King’s Guards in Trouble for ‘Leaking Photos’ of Royal Jet
Members of the security personnel of Swaziland’s absolute King have been fined 29 cattle after pictures of his multi-million dollar private jet appeared on social media. Photographs of the wake of the vigil of King Mswati III’s wife Inkhosikati Senteni Masango who committed suicide in April 2018 were also published online. The City Press in […]
King Mswati III – Lifestyles of the Rich and Royal
The dire state of the Kingdom of eSwatini’s economy has not slowed down its king’s spending and lavish lifestyle. King Mswati’s latest purchase is a further extravagance imposed on the country’s ailing economy. Aside from renaming the country on its 50th Independence Day celebrations, the King of eSwatini also saw fit to gift himself a […]
Is Zambian Leader Building Million-Dollar Mansion in Swaziland?
State House spokesperson Amos Chanda says there is no impropriety involved in the transaction involving a gift of a piece of land given to President Edgar Lungu in the Royal Kingdom of eSwatini (formerly known as Swaziland). Speaking when he addressed the press at statehouse this afternoon, Chanda said the matter is a purely decision […]
Swaziland Government ‘Killing Its Own People’
The kingdom’s only independent newspaper has accused the Swaziland Government of ‘killing its people’ with a shortage of medicines in hospitals. The Government, handpicked by King Mswati III who rules Swaziland as an absolute monarch, has admitted it has not paid drug companies for past deliveries and supplies have dried up. Under the heading ‘Government […]
King Mswati III has banned divorce in his Swazi Kingdom
The Times of Swaziland quoted the king issuing the decree during an Easter meeting with Christian religious leaders at the Engabezweni Royal Residence. He was also quoted telling the pastors to inform the citizens that there was no pulling out once marriage takes place. “In our culture, once you marry, there is no turning back,” […]
Swaziland Magistrate Orders Wife to Have Sex Or Face Divorce
A woman has been ordered by a magistrate in Swaziland to have sex with her husband within seven days or face divorce. Her husband had gone to court to seek a divorce on the grounds his wife was no longer giving him his ‘conjugal rights’. The Manzini Magistrate Phathaphatha Mdluli ordered her to have sex […]
Swaziland Prime Minster Barnabas Dlamini’s Dubious Record
Swaziland’s Prime Minster Barnabas Dlamini turned 75 on Monday (15 May 2017) and the Swazi Observer newspaper published a front page tribute and four pages inside to the man who was never elected to office and owes his position to the patronage of King Mswati III. King Mswati rules Swaziland as an absolute monarch. He […]
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