Mpendulo Simelane News Today

The Swaziland Multi-Stakeholder Forum has tabled eight demands that it wants the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights to take up with the government of Eswatini.



MISA-Swaziland | Alert July 26 2014 "An explosive and hostile Judge Mpendulo Simelane sentenced The Nation magazine editor Bheki Makhubu and columnist and human rights lawyer Thulani Maseko to two years imprisonment without an option of a fine yesterday, sending shock waves to media practitioners locally and internationally," reports today's edition of weekly newspaper Observer…

MISA-Swaziland | Media Alert August 5 2014 A monthly magazine in Swaziland is appealing for support as it continues to battle its way through the courts in a case that has drawn attention to the lack of free speech in the landlocked nation in southern Africa. The Nation magazine, published by Swaziland Independent Publishers Pty…

The Regional Governing Council (RGC) of the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) have labeled the conviction of prominent human rights (...)

MISA-Swaziland | Alert April 11 2014 A prominent human rights lawyer in Swaziland, who is currently detained behind bars for writing an opinion piece questioning the independence of the country's judiciary, dressed down a high court judge yesterday, telling the judge to stop treating him like a child. “We have lawyers, why can’t you take…

Today assassinated human rights lawyer and democracy activist Thulani Maseko will be laid to rest at his home in kaLuhleko village, Swaziland. His memorial and funeral is being attended by activists from several Southern African countries, lawyers, United Nations officials and foreign diplomats...

Creating a more accountable country drew Thulani into the vocation of advocacy for democracy and constitutional reform in eSwatini.