PUDEMO Calls for the Release of CPS leader

PUDEMO DEMANDS THE RELEASE OF CPS LEADER
COMRADE MUSA DUBE The People’s United Democratic Movement (PUDEMO)
would like to condemn in the strongest possible
terms the arrest of Communist Party of Swaziland
(CPS) Deputy Secretary General, Musa Dube.
Comrade Musa is a well-known revolutionary par
excellence who grew within the ranks of SWAYOCO and has led our youth structures as National Political
Commissar. He is today a senior leader of the
Communist Party and still plays a pivotal role in the
liberation struggle as led by PUDEMO. Comrade Musa was arrested at KaKhoza on Saturday
14th September and held at Manzini police regional
headquarters. Today he appeared for his first
remand hearing at the Manzini Magistrate Court. He
will be kept at Zakhele Remind Centre pending his
bail application to be lodged very soon. He is charged with Sedition for being found in possessing and
distributing pamphlets of a seditious nature. We demand the release of comrade Musa as we
believe he is a peace loving Swazi whose only sin
was to expose the on-going sham elections as the
farce that they are. Together with the CPS and other
political parties, joined by faith based, students and
labour organisations we are calling for the rejections of these sham elections whose outcome is
predetermined and will not change the rotten
political system called Tinkhundla. We call upon the SADC team to reject these stage
managed elections and to refuse to observe an
elections where political parties are banned and
political activist criminalised.
We are already in touch with comrade Musa’s lawyer
to ensure that he is assisted throughout the legal processes. We call upon all our members and the
public at large to attend all his court appearances in
support of our course. Statement issued by PUDEMO spokesperson Zakhele
Mabuza