Amid these disasters there was a splurge of luxury spending by the royal family exemplified by King Mswati III's demand in 2003 that the government provide him with a 19-seater US$45 million Bombardier executive jet...
Apart from Chissano and Mugabe only five heads of state turned up Madagascar's President Marc Ravalomanana Botswana's President Festus Mogae King Mswati III of Swaziland President Denis Sassou Nguesso of Congo-Brazzaville and President Xanana Gusmão of East Timor the ACP's newest member...
King Mswati III is using up his stock of popularity and credibility...
Prince David who is reputedly taking his job very seriously is a former Ambassador to Denmark and a son of King Mswati III's father King Sobhuza II who died in 1982 after reigning for 62 years...
Its basis is a monarchy in which authority has been shared between the King now Mswati III and the Queen Mother for as long as anybody can remember...
King Mswati III vies for the title of Africa's last absolute monarch with Mohammed VI of Morocco...
King Mswati III made Obed Premier in 1989; he ran a liberal government until palace advisors had him dismissed in 1993...
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By contrast Swaziland's King Mswati III has plenty to be thankful for...
Despite pressure from trades unions and from democracies abroad (led by President Nelson Mandela) Mswati III remains an absolute monarch...
The trades union movement has tried and failed to bring down the government of King Mswati III...
Dislodging King Mswati III and his followers from their present monopoly of power is proving to be long and difficult...
They are pushing 27 demands mostimportantly the unbanning of political parties and decreased powers for King Mswati III...