{"id":18261,"date":"2022-12-16T07:41:38","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T07:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/mps-court-case-nnlc-president-applauds-public-transport-workers-for-identifying-umtsakatsi-oppressing-swazis"},"modified":"2022-12-16T10:09:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T10:09:09","slug":"mps-court-case-nnlc-president-applauds-public-transport-workers-for-identifying-umtsakatsi-oppressing-swazis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/mps-court-case-nnlc-president-applauds-public-transport-workers-for-identifying-umtsakatsi-oppressing-swazis","title":{"rendered":"MPS COURT CASE: NNLC President applauds public transport workers for identifying umtsakatsi oppressing Swazis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Eswatini. <\/strong><\/span><b>Sibongile Mazibuko, the President of the Ngwane National Liberatory Congress(NNLC) has applauded public transport workers for identifying the witch(umtsakatsi), who is oppressing Swazis.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Speaking to press inside the High Court in Mbabane on Thursday, during the bail application of incarcerated pro-democracy Members of Parliament(MPs), Bacede Mabuza and Mthandeni Dube that was dismissed by Judge Mumcy Dlamini, the NNLC President urged Swazis to stand-up for their rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s time to stand-up, we thank the public transport workers for identifying the witch(umtsakatsi) that is oppressing the Swazis,\u201d said the NNLC President.<\/p>\n<p>Mazibuko said due to the oppression , Swazis are now financially broke and struggling to even pay bus fares.<\/p>\n<p>The NNLC President encouraged public transport workers that they were on the right track by suffocating the Tinkhundla system to end the oppression that is affecting them as well.<\/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. Sibongile Mazibuko, the President of the Ngwane National Liberatory Congress(NNLC) has applauded public transport workers for identifying the witch(umtsakatsi), who is oppressing Swazis. Speaking to press inside the High Court in Mbabane on Thursday, during the bail application of incarcerated pro-democracy Members of Parliament(MPs), Bacede Mabuza and Mthandeni Dube that was dismissed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":18260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10,12],"tags":[234,248,249],"class_list":["post-18261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","category-policy","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>MPS COURT CASE: NNLC President applauds public transport workers for identifying umtsakatsi oppressing Swazis - Eswatini<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" 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