King Mswati has fled his home country and sought refugee in Zimbabwe as protests increase in Swaziland.
Yesterday and earlier this morning, protesters were in the streets in Eswatini over human rights issues.
Wellece Mujuru has however, claimed that King Mswati who fled Swaziland is in Zimbabwe at Gunhill surbubs.
“I have it under a reliable source that King Mswati who fled Swaziland because of violent protests against him last night is in Zimbabwe…Gunhill,” he tweeted.
Last Saturday, Police in Eswatini clashed with a rural demonstration demanding democratic reforms in Africa’s last absolute mornachy.
Police in eSwatini on Saturday clashed with a rural demonstration demanding democratic reforms in Africa’s last absolute monarchy, an AFP reporter said.
Around 500 youth gathered in a village in the kingdom’s Manzini district to demand the right to vote for their own prime minister, currently appointed by King Mswati III.
They burned tyres, blocked roads and chanted political slogans as they marched through the village, calling on the king to lift a longstanding ban on political parties.
Political parties have been banned in the tiny southern African country since 1973.
A constitution introduced in 2005 forbade parties from running in national elections, handing King Mswati III absolute power.
The king, crowned in 1986 when he was just 18, has come under fire for his expensive tastes and spending when most inhabitants live below the poverty line.
Although protests remain rare in eSwatini, public resentment has grown in recent years.
In 2019, the country was rocked by a series of strikes by civil servants who accused the monarch of draining public coffers at the expense of his subjects.
