Vol 38 No 6 | ESWATINI Mswati mobilises 14th March 1997 Dislodging King Mswati III and his followers from their present monopoly of power is proving to be long and difficult. The Constitutional Review Commission, appointed in August 199...
Vol 38 No 3 | ESWATINI King size 31st January 1997 Another battle between reformers and traditionalists looms (AC Vol 37 No 13), with trades unions threatening a general strike for 3 February. They are pushing 27 demands, mostimpor...
Vol 37 No 13 | ESWATINI King's pawns 21st June 1996 The monarch is trying to manage change before it moves too fast for him and his court The Royal Cattle Byre at Ludzidzini had never seen anything like it. On the sacred site where the kings of Swaziland have since time immemorial listened to their people's views and...
Vol 37 No 3 | ESWATINI Trumping the King 2nd February 1996 A feudal regime is finding it hard to survive to the big new democracy next door Swaziland is now the only country in Southern Africa in which political parties are now banned. The People's United Democratic Party, the main opposition movement, is therefore ill...