Swaziland News
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Mbabane — The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has withdrawn its advisory team from Swaziland, saying it is unable to support the government's proposed financial reform programme. The IMF was assisting the government in implementing the Fiscal Adjustment Roadmap (FAR), to right-size the budget, where government spending currently exceeds its revenue. "Government has yet to propose a credible reform programme that
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Manzini - Swazi police fired tear gas as they waged running battles with bus drivers Tuesday in the kingdom's commercial centre Manzini, in the latest show of public anger at Africa's last absolute monarch. Violence erupted as police tried to force bus drivers to move from the main Manzini station to a new satellite hub outside the city. Drivers returned
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The Swaziland Government's official spokesman has categorically denied that public money was used to purchase King Mswati III's new jet plane. Percy Simelane said, 'A thousand times No', when asked by the BBC if public money was involved. Simelane claimed the jet was given to the King by well-wishers, but he denied that it had been given as a gift
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Swaziland's economy is heading for a shipwreck of Titanic proportions after news that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has withdrawn support for the kingdom's financial recovery plan. Since 2010 the IMF has been working closely with the Swazi Government supporting its 'fiscal adjustment roadmap (FAR)' - a plan for recovery that included getting more revenue through taxes and reducing the
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Swaziland state forces quashed pro-democracy demonstrations in the kingdom yesterday. Police and army were deployed across the kingdom, ruled by King Mswati III, sub-Saharan Africa's last absolute monarch, to stop any gatherings in support of democratic reform. Trade union leaders were detained by police and roads blocked to stop protesters gathering. Barnabas Dlamini, the Swaziland Prime Minister, had ordered a
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The Swaziland Government has warned democracy activists that they will be dealt with 'harshly' if they go ahead with planned protests in the kingdom tomorrow (12 April 2012). Mass demonstrations are expected across the kingdom, ruled by King Mswati III, sub-Saharan Africa's last absolute monarch. But yesterday a court in Swaziland ruled protests by public service unions were illegal, which
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Swaziland activists on Wednesday vowed to push on with protests to mark 39 years since the banning of political parties, despite a court blocking initial demonstrations. Pro-democracy protests have mushroomed over the past year amid deepening frustration among impoverished Swazis over a crippling financial crisis under the government of King Mswati III. Africa's last absolute monarchy obtained a court order
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King Mswati III of Swaziland's demand that his impoverished subjects supply him with cattle to slaughter for his birthday party has been met with anger and scorn. Social network sites are buzzing with accusations that the king, sub-Saharan Africa's last absolute monarch, and among the 15 wealthiest royals in the world, should pay for his own party. The king is
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Swazi King Mswati III, Africa's last absolute monarch, has ordered his impoverished subjects to give him cows for his birthday celebrations this month, the home affairs minister said Monday. Chiefs from the Shiselweni region, where the celebrations will be held, will have to canvas their subjects for cattle to be slaughtered for the king, who turns 44 on April 19,
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Mbabane - Students in Swaziland demanding democracy and scholarships marched in Mbabane on Monday, their small numbers illustrating the difficulties of igniting a reform movement in sub-Saharan Africa's last absolute monarchy. The peaceful protest was originally scheduled last week, then postponed as organisers struggled to get it off the ground. On Monday, it drew about 500 people, who were closely
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Mbabane - One in four households in Swaziland, Africa's last absolute monarchy, were hit by the rising cost of food and even forced to skip meals, Unicef said in a report on Friday. "The report showed that households with family members living with HIV were at greater risk to shocks and relied more on cheaper meals or skipped meals altogether,"
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Swaziland's Finance Minister Majozi Sithole faces arrest for implementing a 10 percent salary cut on senators in the kingdom without their permission. A warrant for his arrest has been obtained by Swazi Senate President Gelane Zwane. She told the senate she had the warrant for some time but would wait for the permission of King Mswati III before implementing it.
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Mbabane - Swaziland on Friday lashed out at the African National Congress, and the youth league in particular, over its pressure for democratic reforms in Africa's last absolute monarchy. Government spokesperson Percy Simelane accused the ANC of forgetting the role played by Swaziland during the struggle against apartheid. "We helped this ANC government during the struggle and today this is
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Swaziland MPs are threatening to take the Minister of Finance to court because he cut their salaries by 10 percent in a bid to control public spending. They say they were the only group to have the cut and it was done without their permission. The Swazi Government had hoped to cut all public service salaries by 10 percent to
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Mbabane - The sacked chief editor of the Swazi Observer newspaper said on Monday that he has fled to South Africa in fear of his life after receiving a tip-off that police wanted to arrest him on terror charges. Musa Ndlangamandla, once a royal advisor to King Mswati III, who owns the paper, was fired in January after he published
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King Mswati III of Swaziland has once again refused to make any sacrifice to help get his Kingdom out of the economic mire. Even though members of the government he handpicks have been forced to take 10 percent salary cuts and he wants all public servants, including teachers and hospital workers, to take a similar reduction, he is not prepared
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The Swaziland Government has stolen money intended for the public servants' pension fund. A total of E452 million (US$59 million) has been withheld from the Public Service Pension Fund (PSPF) over the past year. The Swazi Government has been struggling to pay its bills for most of 2011 and has had to resort to getting clandestine loans in order to
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For traditionalists, King Mswati III's troubled year, the rapid collapse of Swaziland's economy and the surge in pro-democracy protests has little to do with South Africa's revision of Southern African Customs Union (Sacu) disbursements late last year. It has its roots, instead, in an unfortunate variation in the mystic, and private, Incwala ceremony last December. The ceremony is cloaked in
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Mbabane - A Swazi police officer has been suspended after she blurted out while in a spiritual trance that she wished for Africa's last absolute monarchy to end, a church official said on Wednesday. Dumsile Khumalo, a junior police officer in the eastern town of Mliba, was at an inter-faith prayer service last week when she was heard speaking in
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The 12th wife of King Mswati III has accused Africa’s last absolute monarch of throwing her out of Swaziland’s royal household after imprisoning her for a year over an alleged affair with a government minister Ndumiso Mamba, iol reported on Monday. The report said Nothando Dube, who married the King when she was 16 was booted out from the palace
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The Swazi government was tight-lipped Friday over details of a bailout package that has enabled the tiny kingdom to stay afloat, amid dissident claims that public bank shares were used as collateral. After warning last week that it would not be able to pay public-sector workers on time this month, the Swazi government announced Tuesday that it had pulled together
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Mbabane - Cash-strapped Swaziland has pulled together enough loans from local banks and private businesses to pay government workers on time this month, a spokesperson said on Tuesday. The announcement came after emergency meetings to raise the $43m reportedly needed to pay civil servants. Government workers had threatened to launch new protests in Africa's last absolute monarchy following an announcement
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The Swaziland Government is close to accepting that the kingdom must move towards democracy to get a bailout loan from South Africa. Majozi Sithole, Swaziland's Finance Minister, as good as admitted this in parliament yesterday (14 November 2011). South Africa had offered Swaziland a R2.4 billion bailout loan, but with conditions attached. One of the conditions was a move towards
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Swaziland will delay paying salaries to civil servants by up to two weeks, the accountant general's office said Friday in an internal memo seen by AFP, as the kingdom's financial crisis deepens. The memo said salaries that should be paid on November 20 will only be paid on December 5, with other paychecks to be issued within the following three
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Cash-strapped Swaziland will struggle to pay civil servants' salaries this month, Finance Minister Majozi Sithole told AFP on Wednesday, as the tiny kingdom slips deeper into crisis. "We will do our best to pay at the end of November but it is difficult. We have serious fiscal challenges right now," Sithole said. Swaziland fell into crisis after losing 60 percent
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