{"id":11892,"date":"2022-08-30T12:48:14","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T12:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/mswatis-soldiers-fire-shots-as-sidzidzi-semhlanga-kabhamsakhe-burns"},"modified":"2022-08-30T14:21:05","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T14:21:05","slug":"mswatis-soldiers-fire-shots-as-sidzidzi-semhlanga-kabhamsakhe-burns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/mswatis-soldiers-fire-shots-as-sidzidzi-semhlanga-kabhamsakhe-burns","title":{"rendered":"Mswati\u2019s soldiers fire shots as Sidzidzi seMhlanga kaBhamsakhe burns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Eswatini. <\/strong><\/span><b>Sidzidzi SeMhlanga at Luyengo(kaBhamsakhe) was burnt by pro-democracy activists in the early hours on Tuesday.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Superintendent Phindile Vilakati, the Police Spokesperson had not responded at the time of compiling this report.<\/p>\n<p>It has been disclosed that the burning of the uMhlanga forms part of the ongoing operations by political activists after Mswati refused to participate in a political dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>The political activist who is a member of one of the political organizations confirmed the burning of the uMhlanga.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe went there to burn uMhlanga, it was finished, they will go to Empisi Farm. When we started burning uMhlanga, soldiers fired two shots but it was too late. We want democracy,\u201d said the political activist.<\/p>\n<p>Eswatini is in the midst of a political crisis, King Mswati allegedly claimed the political environment was not conducive for a political dialogue, however, his ritual events continued despite the ongoing calls for democratic reforms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\">Eswatini<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Eswatini. Sidzidzi SeMhlanga at Luyengo(kaBhamsakhe) was burnt by pro-democracy activists in the early hours on Tuesday. Superintendent Phindile Vilakati, the Police Spokesperson had not responded at the time of compiling this report. It has been disclosed that the burning of the uMhlanga forms part of the ongoing operations by political activists after Mswati [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":11891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,12,16],"tags":[234,248,249],"class_list":["post-11892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-eswatini","tag-eswatini"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mswati\u2019s soldiers fire shots as Sidzidzi seMhlanga kaBhamsakhe burns - Eswatini<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sidzidzi SeMhlanga at Luyengo(kaBhamsakhe) was burnt by pro-democracy activists in the early hours on Tuesday. 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