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Africa-Press – Eswatini. <\/strong><\/span>Wandile Dludlu, the Secretary General of the People\u2019s United Democratic Movement (PUDEMO) says King Mswati\u2019s Government is using the law to please the oppressor. <\/b><\/p>\n

This comes after Princess Lindiwe Dlamini, the Minister of Home Affairs issued a gazette on Thursday banning Sicelo Mngomezulu, the lawyer for the incarcerated pro-democracy MPs Bacede Mabuza and Mthandeni Dube from entering the country.<\/p>\n

In public statement sent to this Swaziland News, the PUDEMO Secretary General said the banning of the lawyer was an attack to all those who stood against the oppression of Swazis and the Members of Parliament in particular.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is common knowledge that the State has absolutely no evidence linking the MPs Cde Mthandeni Dube and Bacede Mabuza for which Mngomezulu has been defending very well since last year. This dirty tactic of abusing State agencies for political expediency is well recorded and highlighted. We commit to fight this absurd procedural anomaly of banning Cde Mngomezulu without due process nor following basic tenets of constitutionalism expected from anyone who intends to encroach in the rights of another in this manner,\u201d reads the statement in part.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Eswatini. Wandile Dludlu, the Secretary General of the People\u2019s United Democratic Movement (PUDEMO) says King Mswati\u2019s Government is using the law to please the oppressor. This comes after Princess Lindiwe Dlamini, the Minister of Home Affairs issued a gazette on Thursday banning Sicelo Mngomezulu, the lawyer for the incarcerated pro-democracy MPs Bacede Mabuza […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":12105,"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-12106","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":"\nPUDEMO takes on Mswati for banning pro-democracy MPs lawyer Sicelo Mngomezulu - Eswatini<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Wandile Dludlu, the Secretary General of the People\u2019s United Democratic Movement (PUDEMO) says King Mswati\u2019s Governme ...\" \/>\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\/pudemo-takes-on-mswati-for-banning-pro-democracy-mps-lawyer-sicelo-mngomezulu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PUDEMO takes on Mswati for banning pro-democracy MPs lawyer Sicelo Mngomezulu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Wandile Dludlu, the Secretary General of the People\u2019s United Democratic Movement (PUDEMO) says King Mswati\u2019s Governme ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/pudemo-takes-on-mswati-for-banning-pro-democracy-mps-lawyer-sicelo-mngomezulu\" \/>\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=\"2022-09-02T12:59:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-09-02T14:15:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2022\/09\/postQueueImg_4-63120ff93ce34.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1187\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"430\" \/>\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=\"1 minute\" \/>\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\/pudemo-takes-on-mswati-for-banning-pro-democracy-mps-lawyer-sicelo-mngomezulu#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/pudemo-takes-on-mswati-for-banning-pro-democracy-mps-lawyer-sicelo-mngomezulu\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"PUDEMO takes on Mswati for banning pro-democracy MPs lawyer Sicelo Mngomezulu\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-09-02T12:59:04+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-09-02T14:15:49+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/pudemo-takes-on-mswati-for-banning-pro-democracy-mps-lawyer-sicelo-mngomezulu\"},\"wordCount\":209,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/pudemo-takes-on-mswati-for-banning-pro-democracy-mps-lawyer-sicelo-mngomezulu#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2022\/09\/postQueueImg_4-63120ff93ce34.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\/pudemo-takes-on-mswati-for-banning-pro-democracy-mps-lawyer-sicelo-mngomezulu#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/pudemo-takes-on-mswati-for-banning-pro-democracy-mps-lawyer-sicelo-mngomezulu\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/pudemo-takes-on-mswati-for-banning-pro-democracy-mps-lawyer-sicelo-mngomezulu\",\"name\":\"PUDEMO takes on Mswati for banning pro-democracy MPs lawyer Sicelo Mngomezulu - 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