{"id":25234,"date":"2023-04-19T17:00:41","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T17:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/?p=25234"},"modified":"2023-04-19T16:07:44","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T16:07:44","slug":"pudemo-secretary-general-penuel-malinga-king-mswati-is-an-absolute-monarch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/pudemo-secretary-general-penuel-malinga-king-mswati-is-an-absolute-monarch","title":{"rendered":"PUDEMO SECRETARY GENERAL PENUEL MALINGA: King Mswati is an absolute Monarch."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Eswatini. <\/strong><\/span><b>Penuel Malinga, the Secretary General of the People\u2019s United Democratic Movement(PUDEMO) has maintained that Mswati is an absolute not a Constitutional Monarch.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The PUDEMO Secretary General was responding to sentiments by Government Spokesperson Alpheous Nxumalo on Tuesday who told State controlled journalists that the King was not an absolute Monarch but rules through eMabandla.<\/p>\n<p>Nxumalo\u2019s sentiments come after Zweli Martin Dlamini, the editor told the South African Broadcasting Corporation(SABC) Channel Africa radio that Mswati was not a constitutional but an absolute Monarch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirstly it\u2019s to make the Mr Nxumalo understand the meaning of absolute. We didn&#8217;t wake up and say Mswati is an absolute Monarch. The 1973 degree where all power are vested in him. They designed the system of royal hegemony and monopoly over power founded on exploitation and parasitic forms of wealth accumulation. Mswati Royal is fostering discrimination based not on race, but Royal supremacy, it has created bitter division between the Royalty, who are the first grade citizens and their unlimited sense of entitlement and the rest of the people. Who mere subjects or fourth grade citizens and perpetual baggers in thier own country. The absolute is also reflected in the position and structures of power in society, with such institutions as the Monarch being the chancellor of the university, Patrons of various key bodies, Commander-in Chef of the Armed forces, shareholders of every major economic players where he is represented by a liaison officer, custodian of all cultural heritage futher more names such AS SIHLANGU SEMNIKATI, ROYAL Eswatini Sugar cooperation, Royal Eswatini Police the list is endless,\u201d said the PUDEMO Secretary General.<\/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. Penuel Malinga, the Secretary General of the People\u2019s United Democratic Movement(PUDEMO) has maintained that Mswati is an absolute not a Constitutional Monarch. The PUDEMO Secretary General was responding to sentiments by Government Spokesperson Alpheous Nxumalo on Tuesday who told State controlled journalists that the King was not an absolute Monarch but rules [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":25233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[234,248,249],"class_list":["post-25234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","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>PUDEMO SECRETARY GENERAL PENUEL MALINGA: King Mswati is an absolute Monarch. - Eswatini<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Penuel Malinga, the Secretary General of the People\u2019s United Democratic Movement(PUDEMO) has maintained that Mswati i ...\" \/>\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-secretary-general-penuel-malinga-king-mswati-is-an-absolute-monarch\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PUDEMO SECRETARY GENERAL PENUEL MALINGA: King Mswati is an absolute Monarch.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Penuel Malinga, the Secretary General of the People\u2019s United Democratic Movement(PUDEMO) has maintained that Mswati i ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/pudemo-secretary-general-penuel-malinga-king-mswati-is-an-absolute-monarch\" \/>\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=\"2023-04-19T17:00:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2023\/04\/postQueueImg_1681900154.25.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\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-secretary-general-penuel-malinga-king-mswati-is-an-absolute-monarch#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/pudemo-secretary-general-penuel-malinga-king-mswati-is-an-absolute-monarch\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"PUDEMO SECRETARY GENERAL PENUEL MALINGA: King Mswati is an absolute Monarch.\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-04-19T17:00:41+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/pudemo-secretary-general-penuel-malinga-king-mswati-is-an-absolute-monarch\"},\"wordCount\":294,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/pudemo-secretary-general-penuel-malinga-king-mswati-is-an-absolute-monarch#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2023\/04\/postQueueImg_1681900154.25.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Eswatini\",\"Eswatini\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/pudemo-secretary-general-penuel-malinga-king-mswati-is-an-absolute-monarch#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/pudemo-secretary-general-penuel-malinga-king-mswati-is-an-absolute-monarch\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/pudemo-secretary-general-penuel-malinga-king-mswati-is-an-absolute-monarch\",\"name\":\"PUDEMO SECRETARY GENERAL PENUEL MALINGA: King Mswati is an absolute Monarch. - 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