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Africa-Press – Eswatini. <\/strong><\/span>Government Spokesperson Alpheous Nxumalo has come out to state that the King\u2019s Office Director Percy Simelane responds to a proscribed online entity in his individual capacity.<\/b><\/p>\n

Alpheous was responding to Swazi Bridge\u2019s Manqoba Nxumalo, who had questioned him on the emergence of the online spaces on whether he would engage with them as well, including those which had been proscribed as terrorist entities. Alpheous said he would not respond to such entities as there was a specific reason why government published the notice specifying certain entities as terrorist entities. He said part of government\u2019s decision was to deny them the leverage to access government official information from official sources.<\/p>\n

Position<\/b><\/p>\n

According to Alpheous, there was a known position of the King\u2019s Office in respect to this particular entity. He said: \u201cAs to what convenience the individuals at the King\u2019s Office have found suitable for them to continue to engage the particular entity is not going to affect and influence me in anyway, so long as the notice made by government still stands.\u201d The government spokesperson said unless and until the incumbent Prime Minister (PM) Russell Dlamini, rescinded the decision, and the proscription of the entity, then there could be leeway to engage with them again. \u201cThese publications are continuing to publish government information, because we are living in a world of leaking and selling information,\u201d Alpheous said.<\/p>\n

He mentioned that it was an open secret that media houses paid for information and sold it. However, he said as government, they could not lend credence to institutions that believed in cohesion, intermediation in terrorism to communicate their language.<\/p>\n

He told the Swazi Bridge host that he could not also entertain them if they were one of those organisation mentioned above and classified by government as terrorist entities. \u201cI am talking to the Bridge and everyone online who is available and interested in engaging, because they are not classified as terrorist entities,\u201d he said. This, Alpheous said, was the only difference from the particular one which had been branded a terrorist entity. Furthermore, Alpheous was questioned on the fact that he continued to engage with such entities when they were being taken to court by government and was responding to them for the very longest time and treating them like any other media entity, yet on the other hand, calling them terrorist entities.<\/p>\n

According to the host, it was even worse that there was now a disconnect between the government press office and the King\u2019s Office, in particular with Percy Simelane, who continued to engage with the banned entity. In response, Alpheous said he did not want to be seen talking on behalf of the King\u2019s Office or the director of communications there. However, he warned about the danger of regarding the King\u2019s Office employees as individuals and also treating the same office \u2018as an individual\u2019, adding that there was a huge difference.<\/p>\n

Statement<\/b><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, early this year, government issued a press statement announcing the cutting of communication ties with Swaziland News entity. The announcement was made by Alpheous, adding that a circular memorandum to all government ministries, advising all its officials and employees to desist from communicating and or responding in any form or method to such entities and individuals on social media platform, Facebook and others had been issued. Alpheous said the Swaziland News publication was declared \u2018specified entities\u2019 through Legal No.261 of 2022 in line with the Suppression of Terrorism Act, 2008 in that they allegedly \u2018knowingly facilitated the commission of terrorist acts.\u2019 The Director of Communication in the King\u2019s Office Percy Simelane, when asked about Alpheous\u2019 comments, stated that what he (Alpheous) alleged was not in the bracket of what he responded to when engaging with the entity.<\/p>\n

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