Swaziland

The main theme of the first National Congress of the Swaziland Youth Congress (SWAYOCO) since 2013 was democracy and “reawakening youth zeal for liberation.”

John Sicelo Vilane was born in the Mafucula community in Eastern Swaziland in 1984; a year after his parents had been evicted from the village of Mbuluzi near the border to Mozambique, and relocated to Mafucula –which in siSwati literally means “having been thrown away” – by order of Swaziland’s

The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) President Zingiswa Losi met with sugar cane farmers from Vuvulane, Mafucula and Shewula in Manzini, Swaziland on Tuesday 4 December 2018.

“Land is life”, a new Amnesty International report on forced evictions in Swaziland called “They don’t see us as people” declares.

In his opening address, outgoing President Mario Masuku highlighted the need for the rebuilding of PUDEMO and condemned the corruption of Swazi King Mswati’s absolute rule at PUDEMO’s 9th General Congress, held in Witbank, South Africa.

Organised Certainty, a new study published in July by journalist and former associate professor at the University of Swaziland Richard Rooney, concludes that Swazila

Trying to complain and demand an investigation into having been beaten up and threatened by security police in Swaziland via the United Kingdom Foreign Office takes its time. In my case seven and a half years and counting.

Held in the context of the SADC Peoples´ Summit – an alternative popular gathering in parallel to the official Heads of States and Government summit - the Tribunal brought together activists and community members from rural areas where Transnational Corporations (TNCs) extract various minerals in

“The Swazi system of governance, ‘Tinkhundla’, is indeed unique”, says, Sonkhe Dube, who is the International Secretary of the Swaziland Youth Congress. “They claim it is a democratic institution that encompasses traditional forms of leadership.

EZULWINI, SWAZILAND: It is the 3^rd of June, 2016. The clock ticks towards 4pm at the Royal Swazi Hotel during the 39^th Plenary Assembly Session of the SADC Parliamentary Forum.