- Vol 53 No 12
- 8th June 2012
The tiny kingdom is in a deep economic crisis but the ruling monarch is determined to party on regardless
- Vol 52 No 25
- 16th December 2011
Social unrest has been strong but not revolutionary. Could the cash shortage achieve what campaigners could not?
- Vol 52 No 8
- 15th April 2011
The 12 April ‘uprising’ was heavily advertised so it was no surprise that the security forces outnumbered any who dared to go out on to the streets to protest. Riot police used water cannon, tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse crowds gathered in centr...
- Vol 52 No 5
- 4th March 2011
Swaziland is suffering a severe economic crisis and the monarchy looks ill-equipped to survive it
- Vol 46 No 9
- 29th April 2005
The economy is failing and running out of food as King Mswati
buys a $500,000 limousine
- Vol 43 No 19
- 27th September 2002
Absolute monarchy may be benign but donors and neighbours don't like it
- Vol 41 No 24
- 8th December 2000
Politics get complicated when an absolute monarch changes his
mind
- Vol 40 No 4
- 19th February 1999
The political relaunch of a former Prime Minister, Obed Dlamini, could revive the antimonarchist opposition. This has been marking time since the 70,000-strong Swaziland Federation of Trade Unions failed to get support for a general strike in 1997 or for ...
- Vol 39 No 19
- 25th September 1998
Two troubled kingdoms have embroiled South Africa in some messy power-broking