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| Africa’s Last Absolute Monarchy Convulsed By Mass Protests by Omooba77: 7:27pm On Jul 02, 2021 |
Eswatini, the former Swaziland, has been ruled by high-living kings since its independence in 1968. Its impoverished citizens say they’ve had enough. JOHANNESBURG — As Africa’s last absolute monarch, King Mswati III of Eswatini chooses his country’s prime minister and cabinet, and possesses the power to dissolve Parliament. His grip on the nation’s limited economic resources has underwritten a lavish lifestyle of luxury cars and palaces, and his children flaunt their opulent birthday parties on social media. About six out of 10 of citizens, meanwhile, live in poverty. Many in this tiny landlocked nation, wedged between South Africa and Mozambique, are on the brink of hunger and have to cross into South Africa to find work — their lives in stark contrast to their leader’s abundance. Now, it seems, many of the kingdom’s 1.1 million inhabitants have had it with this imbalance: Over the past week, the tiny southern African nation, formerly known as Swaziland, has descended into the most explosive civil unrest in its 53 years of independence. Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets in the executive capital, Mbabane. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/02/us/africa-monarchy-eswatini-protests-swaziland.html#click=https:///1ki64F93bB |
| Re: Africa’s Last Absolute Monarchy Convulsed By Mass Protests by Omooba77: 8:15pm On Jul 02, 2021 |
Swaziland is awake to a wicked king who keep loading his harem with women. |
| Re: Africa’s Last Absolute Monarchy Convulsed By Mass Protests by Omooba77: 2:42pm On Jul 03, 2021 |
Lalasticlala, Eswatini protesting bad leadership too.... |
| Re: Africa’s Last Absolute Monarchy Convulsed By Mass Protests by CodeTemplar: 5:39pm On Jul 03, 2021 |
Lol... Monarchy for Africa is funny. |
| Re: Africa’s Last Absolute Monarchy Convulsed By Mass Protests by Nobody: 5:45pm On Jul 03, 2021 |
Some Africans are happy that former colonizers are pulling the strings in that country to remove an african monarch. Similar stint happened in London and all the protesters were arrested and jailed. |
| Re: Africa’s Last Absolute Monarchy Convulsed By Mass Protests by nairalandankrah: 5:50pm On Jul 03, 2021 |
thebosstrevor1:Nigeria must break |
| Re: Africa’s Last Absolute Monarchy Convulsed By Mass Protests by Caboceer: 5:51pm On Jul 03, 2021 |
thebosstrevor1: You will never have sense until you die, you useless fool |
| Re: Africa’s Last Absolute Monarchy Convulsed By Mass Protests by FarahAideed: 5:51pm On Jul 03, 2021 |
They better think twice before they bring in a devil like Buha |
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