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Swaziland: PM Wrong On Education Standards
Manzini :: Swaziland | 3 months ago
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Swaziland's Prime Minister Barnabas Dlamini has misled us by claiming that the kingdom's 'education standard ranks high in the world'. He also claimed in a government press statement that the standard of education in the kingdom, ruled by King Mswati
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Swaziland: Campaign to Release Student Leader
Manzini :: Swaziland | 3 months ago
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The Swaziland Youth Congress is to launch a campaign for the unconditional release of its President, Bheki Dlamini and other political prisoners on February 16, Kenworthy News Media reports...He has been in jail since June 2010. "We remain convinced
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Swaziland: 'Times' Censors Critical Report on King
Manzini :: Swaziland | 3 months ago
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The Times of Swaziland newspaper has misled its readers by censoring a report on the kingdom by international business consultants that criticised King Mswati III for the political crisis that has stagnated the economy and said protesters were
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Swaziland: Swazi King 'Predatory Media Censor'
Manzini :: Swaziland | 3 months ago
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Swaziland's King Mswati III has been named as one of the world's most predatory censors in a media freedom report just published. Reporters Without Borders (RWB) says King Mswati is among a group of six heads of state who 'are members of an exclusive
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Swaziland: Swazi Coalition Is Ten Years Old
Manzini :: Swaziland | 3 months ago
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One of Swaziland's most significant prodemocracy organisations has reached its tenth birthday. Prime Minister Barnabas Dlamini refused to be bound by decisions of the law courts. That led to a judicial crisis and all the Appeals Court judges resigned
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Success of Family and Medical Leave Act Should Humble the Far Right
Manzini :: Swaziland | 4 months ago
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Chamber of Commerce, whose spokeswoman Virginia Lamp denounced the act as a dangerous precedent. (She would eventually marry Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and move on to employment with the Koch brothers.) With the honorable exception of the
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Swaziland: Impossible to Cut Poverty
Manzini :: Swaziland | 4 months ago
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Swaziland's economy is still in dire straits despite a U$800m cash windfall received by the government this year from the Southern African Customs Union. And, the financial situation is so bad it will be impossible to reduce poverty in the kingdom,
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Swaziland: Ex-King's Man Attacks Progressives
Manzini :: Swaziland | 4 months ago
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His attack was first published in the Sunday Independent newspaper in South Africa on 27 January 2013, and has now been circulated on the Internet by the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa , a group that says it is 'committed to deepening
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Swaziland: Opposition Says Observers Must Boycott Election
Manzini :: Swaziland | 4 months ago
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We are calling on countries not to respect the outcome of these elections and we want the international poll observers to boycott the election because no election shall be free in the absence of political parties.' Masuku told the Voice of America
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Swaziland: Swazi Election 'Will Be a Fraud'
Manzini :: Swaziland | 4 months ago
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All political parties are banned in the kingdom where King Mswati III is generally considered to be the last absolute monarch in sub-Saharan Africa...At the last vote in 2008, the Commonwealth Election Team, which has global experience monitoring
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