Swaziland students clash with police
By Sarah | January 31, 2012
AFP, 30 January 2012
Police in Swaziland fired teargas Monday on students protesting their university’s failure to open for the semester, injuring several people, a student leader said. Read the rest of this entry »
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Jailed Swazi Student leader nominated for Irish human rights award
By Sarah | January 30, 2012
Stiff Kitten’s Blog, 25 January 2012
President of the Swaziland National Union of Students (SNUS), Maxwell Dlamini, has been nominated for the 2012 Front Line Defenders Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk. The award is presented by Front Line, an Irish-based human rights organisation founded by former director of the Irish Section of Amnesty International, Mary Lawlor, and is given to “human rights defenders who, through non-violent work, are courageously making an outstanding contribution to the promotion and protection of the human rights of others, often at great personal risk to themselves.” Read the rest of this entry »
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Swaziland: Government ready for 2013 elections
By Sarah | January 20, 2012
Swazi Observer, 19 January 2012
GOVERNMENT is more than ready to conduct the national elections next year. This was revealed by Minister of Justice Chief Mgwagwa Gamedze.
He was speaking during a courtesy visit to the Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC) offices yesterday. Read the rest of this entry »
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Swaziland: the students’ president is still in jail
By Sarah | January 20, 2012
NUS Connect, 19 January 2012
Blog by Sibusiso Magnificent Nhlabatsi
Maxwell Dlamini, President of the Swaziland National Union of Students was arrested on April 2011. He was charged under the Explosives Act in that he was suspected to have had explosives. He made bail application at the Manzini Magistrate Court where the court refused to grant him bail. Read the rest of this entry »
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South Africa and Swaziland to build $2 bln rail line
By Sarah | January 12, 2012
Reuters Africa, 12 January 2012
“That should take our capacity on the coal line beyond 91 million tonnes, closer to 100 million tonnes,” he said.
Construction of South Africa’s first new rail line in several decades and upgrades will begin next year and are expected to be completed by 2016.
A large portion of the costs, up to 12 billion rand, would be covered by South Africa and the remainder by Swaziland. Read the rest of this entry »
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UK Aid Priorities
By Mark | January 10, 2012
British parliamentarians query choice of countries to receive UK aid.
Should the UK have bilateral aid programmes for Lesotho and Swaziland?
A report by British parliamentarians queries some the approaches and methodology used by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) in its Bilateral Aid Review. Read the rest of this entry »
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Swaziland: HIV+ patients in a dilemma
By Sarah | January 10, 2012
Times of Swaziland, 10 January 2012
Many HIV positive patients in the country cannot have their CD4 count checked as there are still no analyser machine reagents in the country’s hospitals.
This is because government lacaks E7 million to purchase them, it has since been gathered. Read the rest of this entry »
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Southern Africa – prospects for 2012
By Tony | January 4, 2012
ACTSA’s director, Tony Dykes, considers what will be happening in southern Africa in 2012.
Parliamentary Elections are due to be held in Angola by the end of year. In Lesotho and the Seychelles elections for their National Assembly are due to take place and in the DRC following the disputed parliamentary and presidential elections of 2011 provincial elections are due on 25 February 2012. Read the rest of this entry »
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Swaziland: Home of the forgotten despot
By admin | December 7, 2011
Morning Star, 5 December
If you were asked what you knew about Swaziland, what would be your response? What do you know about this small country of less than a million people located between Mozambique and South Africa?
As the Scottish Trades Union Congress delegate on a recent ACTSA visit to southern Africa, I had little knowledge of Swaziland. Read the rest of this entry »
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Swaziland: Opposition to military spending grows
By Sarah | December 2, 2011
IRIN, 29 November 2011
Swaziland spends 4.7 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) on paying, equipping and barracking the 3,000 soldiers in its army, and now parliament has passed a US$8 million supplementary budget for the force, provoking a rare public reaction in questioning the role or even the need for an army in view of the deepening economic crisis. Read the rest of this entry »
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