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Fifty one men and eight women were elected to Eswatinis parliament in last weeks election, with a strong showing for pro-royalist candidates in results expected to make little difference to the... -October 02, 2023 at 10:20 am EDT - MarketScreener

By Lunga Masuku MBABANE (Reuters) - Fifty one men and eight women were elected to Eswatinis parliament in last weeks election, with a strong showing ...

MBABANE : Fifty one men and eight women were elected to Eswatini's parliament in last week's election, with a strong showing for pro-royalist candidates in results expected to make little difference to the politics of Africa's last absolute monarchy.The southern Africa nation has been ruled by King Mswati

Voters in Eswatini will cast their ballots on Friday in parliamentary elections whose outcome will make little difference to the politics of a country controlled by Africa's last absolute monarch. King Mswati III has ruled the southern African kingdom of about 1.2 million people since 1986, when he inherited the crown from his father, Sobhuza II. Political parties are banned, but individual candidates can run for seats in the House of Assembly every five years.

The veteran South African politician, Zulu prince and controversial figure during the apartheid liberation struggle, died last week aged 95. Mourners -- some dressed in traditional Zulu outfits made of leopard and other animal skins and holding shields crafted from cow hides -- gathered at a stadium in the town of Ulundi, where they danced, sang and cheered ahead of the service. Buthelezi, the founder of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) who served two terms as Minister of Home Affairs in the po...

Like many impoverished residents of downtown Johannesburg, Sihle Dube had rented a tiny room from someone who didn't actually own it, in a rundown building that was becoming a trash-strewn haven for drugs and crime. Dube scrambled into his trousers and tried to climb out of his first floor window, but he slipped on a satellite dish, fell and blacked out. More than 70 others did not make it out alive, one of Johannesburg's worst disasters in living memory.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -Like many impoverished residents of downtown Johannesburg, Sihle Dube had rented a tiny room from someone who didn't actually own it, in a rundown building that was becoming a trash-strewn haven for drugs and crime. Dube scrambled into his trousers and tried to climb out of his first floor window, but he slipped on a satellite dish, fell and blacked out. More than 70 others did not make it out alive, one of Johannesburg's worst disasters in living memory.

WHAT ARE HIJACKED BUILDINGS AND WHEN DID THE ISSUE BEGIN? Since the end of apartheid in 1994, a housing crisis in South Africa's largest city of Johannesburg, in Gauteng province, has grown worse, as big businesses moved out of the inner city into affluent suburbs. Criminal syndicates in the 1990s and 2000s started "hijacking" buildings that were left empty and renting them out illegally.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - More than 70 people were killed overnight when fire raged through a five-storey Johannesburg apartment block that may have ...

Zambia sought to deny bail to five Egyptians and six Zambians charged with espionage for entering a restricted zone of Lusaka airport, two weeks after Zambian authorities said their plane had been...