More political arrests

BREAK THE CHAINS of Swaziland’s political prisoners!

Since the beginning of this month Swaziland was a show of political activism and on the other hand political suppression and brutality dished out to peace loving activist fighting for human justice and rights. The call to unban all political parties, release of all political prisoners and that of allowing the safe return of all exiles made by pro-democracy formation inside and outside Swaziland has been used by the state as a reason to add more political prisoners , causalities of police and army torture and insecurity amongst the broad pro- democracy movement.

The April 12 arrest

This year on the 12 th April marked 40 years of the state of emergency administered by the tinkhundla royal regime. A couple of event were planned to take place during these days inside and outside Swaziland to highlight and demand the recalling of this unnecessary, undemocratic and muddled state of affairs, unfortunately in Swaziland this was met with violence and suppressions. Comrade Wonder Mkhonza who is the Secretary of the Swaziland Processing and Allied Workers Union (SPRAWU) and also the National Organising Secretary of PUDEMO was arrested while crossing the Lavumisa border to Swaziland , he was later charged with Sedition . in the next coming week he would be making his bail application in the High court of Swaziland with slim chances of attaining it though.

19 April

Mswati has through the powers vested upon him by the 1973 decree used his birthday to celebrate big with coffers collected from the struggling working class of Swaziland, this year alone he blew up more than R33 million on this stunt, again prodemocracy organs issued statements and organised themselves on a public rally hosted by the Swaziland Youth Congress (SWAYOCO) the youth league of PUDEMO, which was met by maximum force from the army and police special units. More than 5 activists were hospitalised while an unconfirmed number of activist have ‘disappeared’ after the violent confrontation. On the same note two activist were arrested 1. Comrades Mfanawenkhosi ‘BOER’ Mntshali - a long time serving member of PUDEMO and SWAYOCO. He is currently serving on the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Swaziland (CPS) , and he is one of the 2005/6 treason trialist . 2. Comrade Derrick Nkambule – who is also a member of PUDEMO , and serving as the Campaign’s officer in the Peasant commission in the Communist Party of Swaziland (CPS) Currently these two comrades are locked up at the Mbabane Police Station and denied any legal representation or general visit even by family members , they have not been formally charged as of now and we presume their court appearance shall be on Monday the 22 nd of April 2013.

We call upon all democracy loving citizens of the earth to rally behind and add a voice to our call as the people of Swaziland that all political prisoners should be unconditionally released, unban all political parties and the safe return of all exiles in Swaziland .

MSWATI RELEASE

1. AMOS MBEDZI 2. BHEKI DLAMINI 3. ZONKE DLAMINI 4. MAXWELL DLAMINI 5. MUSA NGUBENI 6. ROLAND RUDD 7. BEZEL THWALA 8. WONDER MKHONZA 9. MFANAWENKHOSI BOER MNTSHALI 10. DERRIC NKAMBULE

BREAK THE CHAINS –UNCONDITIONAL RELEASE OF ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS,UNBAN ALL POITICAL PARTIES , SAFE RETURN OF ALL EXILES

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT The head of Campaigns in the CPS Goodwill du-Pont Cell -+_27794724508 Email-goodwilldpnt@gmail.com

Or The Chairperson of the Break the Chains Campaign DR TS FARISANI Cell-+27823371539 Email-tfarisani@gmail.com