{"id":11398,"date":"2022-08-23T12:41:13","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T12:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/swazis-unite-build-a-house-for-an-elderly-woman-who-never-missed-pro-democracy-protests"},"modified":"2022-08-23T13:48:57","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T13:48:57","slug":"swazis-unite-build-a-house-for-an-elderly-woman-who-never-missed-pro-democracy-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/swazis-unite-build-a-house-for-an-elderly-woman-who-never-missed-pro-democracy-protests","title":{"rendered":"Swazis unite, build a house for an elderly woman who never missed pro-democracy protests"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Eswatini. <\/strong><\/span>Local Swazis and in the diaspora united to build a house for Gogo Mathuntjwa, an elderly woman who never missed pro-democracy protests in eSwatini.<\/b><\/p>\n

The project was facilitated by editor Zweli Martin Dlamini through his Fans Club Facebook page that commands a following of about two hundred thousand(200 000) members.<\/p>\n

Swazis who are members of the editor\u2019s Fans Club donated building material and money towards the construction of the house.<\/p>\n

Gogo Mathuntjwa earlier told journalists outside the High Court in Mbabane during a protest that incarcerated Member of Parliament(MP) Bacede Mabuza was taking care of her and that she was struggling after his arrest.<\/p>\n

\u201cBacede was taking care of me, now that he is inside prison, I am struggling,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Gogo Mathuntjwa has become a popular and a unifying figure for the pro-democracy movement, members of various political organizations normally visit her to donate groceries.<\/p>\n

These organizations include, among others,the Ngwane National Liberatory Congress(NNLC), the People\u2019s United Democratic Movement(PUDEMO), the Economic Freedom Fighters of Swaziland (EFFSWA), the Swaziland Democratic Party(SWADEPA) Sive Siyinqaba and the Swaziland People\u2019s Liberation Movement(SPLM).<\/p>\n

After the editor posted on his Fans Club on Facebook, requesting Swazis to honour the elderly political activist with a house, about ten thousand Rands(R10,000.00) was donated within four(4) days and the construction began soon thereafter.<\/p>\n

Richard Vilane, the Hosea Indvuna YenKhundla who has been appointed a Project Manager, thanked Swazis for uniting and to start building the house for Gogo.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe thank the unity demonstrated by Swazis in building the house for Gogo, the construction has just started,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Abigail Jele, a PUDEMO member and Richard Vilane of SWALIMO agreed to volunteer and manage the project for Gogo.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Eswatini<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Eswatini. Local Swazis and in the diaspora united to build a house for Gogo Mathuntjwa, an elderly woman who never missed pro-democracy protests in eSwatini. The project was facilitated by editor Zweli Martin Dlamini through his Fans Club Facebook page that commands a following of about two hundred thousand(200 000) members. Swazis who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":11397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,10,12,16],"tags":[234,248,249],"class_list":["post-11398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-parties","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-eswatini","tag-eswatini"],"yoast_head":"\nSwazis unite, build a house for an elderly woman who never missed pro-democracy protests - Eswatini<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Local Swazis and in the diaspora united to build a house for Gogo Mathuntjwa, an elderly woman who never missed pro-d ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/swazis-unite-build-a-house-for-an-elderly-woman-who-never-missed-pro-democracy-protests\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Swazis unite, build a house for an elderly woman who never missed pro-democracy protests\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Local Swazis and in the diaspora united to build a house for Gogo Mathuntjwa, an elderly woman who never missed pro-d ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/swazis-unite-build-a-house-for-an-elderly-woman-who-never-missed-pro-democracy-protests\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Eswatini\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-08-23T12:41:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-08-23T13:48:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_9-6304dab0a0cd7.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"324\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/swazis-unite-build-a-house-for-an-elderly-woman-who-never-missed-pro-democracy-protests#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/swazis-unite-build-a-house-for-an-elderly-woman-who-never-missed-pro-democracy-protests\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Swazis unite, build a house for an elderly woman who never missed pro-democracy protests\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-08-23T12:41:13+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-08-23T13:48:57+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/swazis-unite-build-a-house-for-an-elderly-woman-who-never-missed-pro-democracy-protests\"},\"wordCount\":314,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/swazis-unite-build-a-house-for-an-elderly-woman-who-never-missed-pro-democracy-protests#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_9-6304dab0a0cd7.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Eswatini\",\"Eswatini\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"parties\",\"policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/swazis-unite-build-a-house-for-an-elderly-woman-who-never-missed-pro-democracy-protests#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/swazis-unite-build-a-house-for-an-elderly-woman-who-never-missed-pro-democracy-protests\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/swazis-unite-build-a-house-for-an-elderly-woman-who-never-missed-pro-democracy-protests\",\"name\":\"Swazis unite, build a house for an elderly woman who never missed pro-democracy protests - Eswatini\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/swazis-unite-build-a-house-for-an-elderly-woman-who-never-missed-pro-democracy-protests#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/swazis-unite-build-a-house-for-an-elderly-woman-who-never-missed-pro-democracy-protests#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_9-6304dab0a0cd7.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-08-23T12:41:13+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-08-23T13:48:57+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Local Swazis and in the diaspora united to build a house for Gogo Mathuntjwa, an elderly woman who never missed pro-d ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/swazis-unite-build-a-house-for-an-elderly-woman-who-never-missed-pro-democracy-protests#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/swazis-unite-build-a-house-for-an-elderly-woman-who-never-missed-pro-democracy-protests\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/swazis-unite-build-a-house-for-an-elderly-woman-who-never-missed-pro-democracy-protests#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_9-6304dab0a0cd7.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_9-6304dab0a0cd7.jpg\",\"width\":1080,\"height\":324,\"caption\":\"Swazis unite, build a house for an elderly woman who never missed pro-democracy protests\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/swazis-unite-build-a-house-for-an-elderly-woman-who-never-missed-pro-democracy-protests#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Swazis unite, build a house for an elderly woman who never missed pro-democracy protests\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/\",\"name\":\"Eswatini\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Swazis unite, build a house for an elderly woman who never missed pro-democracy protests - Eswatini","description":"Local Swazis and in the diaspora united to build a house for Gogo Mathuntjwa, an elderly woman who never missed pro-d ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/swazis-unite-build-a-house-for-an-elderly-woman-who-never-missed-pro-democracy-protests","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Swazis unite, build a house for an elderly woman who never missed pro-democracy protests","og_description":"Local Swazis and in the diaspora united to build a house for Gogo Mathuntjwa, an elderly woman who never missed pro-d ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/swazis-unite-build-a-house-for-an-elderly-woman-who-never-missed-pro-democracy-protests","og_site_name":"Eswatini","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2022-08-23T12:41:13+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-08-23T13:48:57+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1080,"height":324,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_9-6304dab0a0cd7.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/swazis-unite-build-a-house-for-an-elderly-woman-who-never-missed-pro-democracy-protests#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/swazis-unite-build-a-house-for-an-elderly-woman-who-never-missed-pro-democracy-protests"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Swazis unite, build a house for an elderly woman who never missed pro-democracy protests","datePublished":"2022-08-23T12:41:13+00:00","dateModified":"2022-08-23T13:48:57+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/swazis-unite-build-a-house-for-an-elderly-woman-who-never-missed-pro-democracy-protests"},"wordCount":314,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/swazis-unite-build-a-house-for-an-elderly-woman-who-never-missed-pro-democracy-protests#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_9-6304dab0a0cd7.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Eswatini","Eswatini"],"articleSection":["all news","head lines","homepage-english","parties","policy","twitter"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/swazis-unite-build-a-house-for-an-elderly-woman-who-never-missed-pro-democracy-protests#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/swazis-unite-build-a-house-for-an-elderly-woman-who-never-missed-pro-democracy-protests","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/swazis-unite-build-a-house-for-an-elderly-woman-who-never-missed-pro-democracy-protests","name":"Swazis unite, build a house for an elderly woman who never missed pro-democracy protests - Eswatini","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/swazis-unite-build-a-house-for-an-elderly-woman-who-never-missed-pro-democracy-protests#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/swazis-unite-build-a-house-for-an-elderly-woman-who-never-missed-pro-democracy-protests#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_9-6304dab0a0cd7.jpg","datePublished":"2022-08-23T12:41:13+00:00","dateModified":"2022-08-23T13:48:57+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Local Swazis and in the diaspora united to build a house for Gogo Mathuntjwa, an elderly woman who never missed pro-d ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/swazis-unite-build-a-house-for-an-elderly-woman-who-never-missed-pro-democracy-protests#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/swazis-unite-build-a-house-for-an-elderly-woman-who-never-missed-pro-democracy-protests"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/swazis-unite-build-a-house-for-an-elderly-woman-who-never-missed-pro-democracy-protests#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_9-6304dab0a0cd7.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_9-6304dab0a0cd7.jpg","width":1080,"height":324,"caption":"Swazis unite, build a house for an elderly woman who never missed pro-democracy protests"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/swazis-unite-build-a-house-for-an-elderly-woman-who-never-missed-pro-democracy-protests#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Swazis unite, build a house for an elderly woman who never missed pro-democracy protests"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/","name":"Eswatini","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}