Twice-imprisoned lawyer Thulani Maseko - who was at the forefront of Swaziland’s struggle for democracy and persecuted by Africa’s last absolute monarchy with charges of terrorism and sedition - was gunned down hours after King Mswati’s threat to the pro-democracy activists
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) is deeply saddened by the passing of an internationalist and revolutionary leader of our time, Comrade Amos Mbulaheni Mbedzi (57), who lowered his flag on the morning of the 7th of June 2022 in Polokwane Provincial Hospital, South Africa, while serving an 85-year sentence after conviction by King Mswati III’s absolutism courts in 2012. Comrade Mbedzi was wrongly arrested in September 2008 for contravening the country’s Terrorism Act and .
The family of the South African Communist Party member and anti-apartheid activist, Amos Mbedzi, who spent 14 years in prison in Eswatini say he was abandoned by his comrades. Mbedzi passed away last week at Polokwane Provincial Hospital after he was returned to South Africa by the Eswatini government in April. In September 2008 he […]