
“State police officers followed members of eSwatini’s main and largest liberation movement, the People’s United Democratic Movement (PUDEMO) to Moneni Ntangazethu Butchery after stopping their strategic meeting at SNAT Centre-Manzini on Saturday. The PUDEMO members were ordered not to sing political songs while eating meat at the butchery, Brian Sangweni, the PUDEMO Spokesperson confirmed to this Swaziland News while Police Spokesperson Senior Superintendent Phindile Vilakati declined to comment” (Swaziland News, 01.03.2025).
“The PUDEMO catering team left the cooking area at the SNAT centre on Saturday morning after King Mswati’s police violently ordered them to stop cooking. The team was preparing food for the party’s strategic meeting at the venue. One police officer by the name of Stukxi Dlamini was assigned to guard the cooking area. Later on, when they came back the catering team discovered that 2 packets of chicken portions were missing. This was confirmed by the People’s United Democratic Movement (PUDEMO) National Organizing Secretary Siboniso Mkhabela” (Swaziland Democratic News, 02.03.2025).
The absolute monarch and his regime are blocking the People’s United Democratic Movement (PUDEMO) from holding a strategic meeting at the SNAT centre. That what went down this weekend.
The Kingdom is blocking PUDEMO from organizing and working. That is a deliberate action. As the authorities and the state is going after them. First, they weren’t allowed to hold a strategic meeting at SNAT. Secondly, the PUDEMO moved to the Moneni Ntangazethu Butchery, where they weren’t allowed to sing political songs. Therefore, PUDEMO was blocked from everywhere and wasn’t allowed to congregate. That’s the gist of things.
They blocked the venue and the planned meeting. So, when the party moved to a butchery. The authorities went after them as well. The party wasn’t allowed to strategize and eat chicken. They had to leave both places, and the state came with the big guns to go after them.
We the almighty king is allowed to do anything in his monarchy. That is well known, and vast spending sprees aren’t a secret either. The King appoints and keeps his court within his midst. The monarch doesn’t want anyone else to have a say or even hold any real power. Only his words matter, and his lifestyle is more important the lives of his citizens. That’s why he cannot have political parties or elected officials for that matter either. No, he needs to control his dominion and the acts of PUDEMO, and others are just troublemakers for him.
This is why the King, and his authorities has used force against his dissidents. That isn’t anything new. In the kingdom this is just another Saturday. We have seen it all before, but now the officers ate the chicken too. Peace.













