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Swazi Whales
Swaziland is a strange country. Perched between big South Africa and neighboring Mozambique, Swaziland is a small country still ruled by a king (makes you think of Eddie Murphy's Coming to America). Unfortunately, Swazi life isn't as pleasant and perfect as the movie. Swaziland has the world's highest rate of HIV infection (almost 40% of the country's population!). Artists, not craftsmen, are hard to find. Everything seems to be controlled by the country's king, except for poverty and HIV. On average, men are expected to die at age 37, women by age 34.
Swazi king takes his 11th wife - royal source
June 13, 2005, 11:45
The king of impoverished Swaziland has married a 20-year-old virgin, making her the monarch's 11th wife, a senior member of the royal household said today.
King Mswati, sub-Saharan Africa's last absolute monarch, picked Nolichwa Ntentesa as his latest bride in 2002 at the tiny kingdom's annual Reed Dance ceremony, where thousands of bare-breasted maidens parade before the king.
After two years of complex wedding preparations, Ntentesa joined the royal household last week in a traditional ceremony where her face was painted with red ochre. "LaNtentesa is now an inkhosikati (Swazi queen)," a senior member of the royal household said.
Lavish lifestyle criticized
Mswati (37) already has 10 wives and one fiancée, who was a Miss Teen Swaziland finalist.
Critics lambast Mswati for his lavish lifestyle and for taking many wives in a country where more than two thirds of his subjects live in abject poverty and 40% of adults live with HIV/Aids.
Union-led protests against Mswati's absolute rule and extravagant spending on cars and palaces for his wives have largely fizzled in the deeply traditional country. - Reuters
My tribute to the Swazi fine glass artists of the Ngwenya Glass.
I think it is time the world paid attention to the protests of the people
of Swaziland. I feel the king is abusing the country. The people are poor
and lack the education to understand how to deal with the monarchy. I feel
apartheid created people like the king of swaziland. In a southern africa
where people can be abused like this should we just read and do nothing.
Here is what we can do: Speak out about the abuses of the king. Make him
accountable to the nation for the money his is splashing which is Tibiyo
money from industrial ventures that the country enters into with companies
that come to do businesses in the country. Swazis deserve to benefit from
these monies an dnot just the king and the royal family.
I think it is time the world paid attention to the protests of the people
of Swaziland. I feel the king is abusing the country. The people are poor
and lack the education to understand how to deal with the monarchy. I feel
apartheid created people like the king of swaziland. In a southern africa
where people can be abused like this should we just read and do nothing.
Here is what we can do: Speak out about the abuses of the king. Make him
accountable to the nation for the money his is splashing which is Tibiyo
money from industrial ventures that the country enters into with companies
that come to do businesses in the country. Swazis deserve to benefit from
these monies an dnot just the king and the royal family.
I think it is time the world paid attention to the protests of the people
of Swaziland. I feel the king is abusing the country. The people are poor
and lack the education to understand how to deal with the monarchy. I feel
apartheid created people like the king of swaziland. In a southern africa
where people can be abused like this should we just read and do nothing.
Here is what we can do: Speak out about the abuses of the king. Make him
accountable to the nation for the money his is splashing which is Tibiyo
money from industrial ventures that the country enters into with companies
that come to do businesses in the country. Swazis deserve to benefit from
these monies an dnot just the king and the royal family.
I think it is time the world paid attention to the protests of the people
of Swaziland. I feel the king is abusing the country. The people are poor
and lack the education to understand how to deal with the monarchy. I feel
apartheid created people like the king of swaziland. In a southern africa
where people can be abused like this should we just read and do nothing.
Here is what we can do: Speak out about the abuses of the king. Make him
accountable to the nation for the money his is splashing which is Tibiyo
money from industrial ventures that the country enters into with companies
that come to do businesses in the country. Swazis deserve to benefit from
these monies an dnot just the king and the royal family.
I think it is time the world paid attention to the protests of the people
of Swaziland. I feel the king is abusing the country. The people are poor
and lack the education to understand how to deal with the monarchy. I feel
apartheid created people like the king of swaziland. In a southern africa
where people can be abused like this should we just read and do nothing.
Here is what we can do: Speak out about the abuses of the king. Make him
accountable to the nation for the money his is splashing which is Tibiyo
money from industrial ventures that the country enters into with companies
that come to do businesses in the country. Swazis deserve to benefit from
these monies an dnot just the king and the royal family.
I think it is time the world paid attention to the protests of the people
of Swaziland. I feel the king is abusing the country. The people are poor
and lack the education to understand how to deal with the monarchy. I feel
apartheid created people like the king of swaziland. In a southern africa
where people can be abused like this should we just read and do nothing.
Here is what we can do: Speak out about the abuses of the king. Make him
accountable to the nation for the money his is splashing which is Tibiyo
money from industrial ventures that the country enters into with companies
that come to do businesses in the country. Swazis deserve to benefit from
these monies an dnot just the king and the royal family.