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21 Jun 2004 12:46:01 PM |
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A good advertisement for heterosexual marriage . . . |
A good advertisement for heterosexual marriage, yes?
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Swazi king, Africa's last absolute monarch, takes 11th wife
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040621/ts_afp/swaziland_royal
s_040621145649
LUDZIDZINI, Swaziland (AFP) - Swazi King Mswati III, Africa's last absolute
monarch, has taken a new wife, bringing the number of official spouses to
11, a royal source said.
King Mswati III and 20-year-old Zena Mahlangu tied the knot last week at the
traditional headquarters of the monarchy just outside the capital city of
Mbabane.
"The occasion started in the wee hours of the morning on Wednesday and it
dragged on until afternoon," the royal source told AFP.
Zena Mahlangu's mother, Lindiwe Dlamini, had tried in vain to prevent the
king from marrying her daughter after claiming that she had been abducted by
two royal emissaries on October 18, 2002.
Royalists managed to overrule the high court of Swaziland ruling that Zena
should appear before it to say whether she was happy living in the royal
household as one of the king's two fiancees.
Media reports later quoted Zena as saying she was happy living in the royal
household but her mother dimissed them as false.
Born on April 6, 1968, only four months before Swaziland attained
independence from Britain, the British-educated King Mswati is, like the
country he rules, a mix of traditional African and modern Western
influences.
While he has embraced Western-style market-driven economic policies, the
king has adhered to traditional political culture, which allows him full
control of the executive, judiciary and executive arms of government.
Like all the Swazi kings before him, he is a polygamist.
The monarch is increasingly being criticised for his lavish lifestyle while
most of his subjects live in poverty and have to grapple with AIDS (news -
web sites), food shortages and severe drought.
The king recently attracted sweeping criticism for ordering new palaces
worth 14 million dollars for his then 10 wives and two fiancees at a time
when the country faces a deficit of around 145 million dollars.
His kingdom has suffered its fourth successive year of drought, combined
with a serious problem of AIDS, which affects about 38 percent of the adult
population, according to the latest government figures.
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| User: "Matty" |
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| Title: Re: A good advertisement for heterosexual marriage . . . |
21 Jun 2004 07:32:57 PM |
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wrote:
A good advertisement for heterosexual marriage, yes?
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Swazi king, Africa's last absolute monarch, takes 11th wife
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040621/ts_afp/swaziland_royal
s_040621145649
LUDZIDZINI, Swaziland (AFP) - Swazi King Mswati III, Africa's last absolute
monarch, has taken a new wife, bringing the number of official spouses to
11, a royal source said.
King Mswati III and 20-year-old Zena Mahlangu tied the knot last week at the
traditional headquarters of the monarchy just outside the capital city of
Mbabane.
"The occasion started in the wee hours of the morning on Wednesday and it
dragged on until afternoon," the royal source told AFP.
Zena Mahlangu's mother, Lindiwe Dlamini, had tried in vain to prevent the
king from marrying her daughter after claiming that she had been abducted by
two royal emissaries on October 18, 2002.
Royalists managed to overrule the high court of Swaziland ruling that Zena
should appear before it to say whether she was happy living in the royal
household as one of the king's two fiancees.
Media reports later quoted Zena as saying she was happy living in the royal
household but her mother dimissed them as false.
Born on April 6, 1968, only four months before Swaziland attained
independence from Britain, the British-educated King Mswati is, like the
country he rules, a mix of traditional African and modern Western
influences.
While he has embraced Western-style market-driven economic policies, the
king has adhered to traditional political culture, which allows him full
control of the executive, judiciary and executive arms of government.
Like all the Swazi kings before him, he is a polygamist.
The monarch is increasingly being criticised for his lavish lifestyle while
most of his subjects live in poverty and have to grapple with AIDS (news -
web sites), food shortages and severe drought.
The king recently attracted sweeping criticism for ordering new palaces
worth 14 million dollars for his then 10 wives and two fiancees at a time
when the country faces a deficit of around 145 million dollars.
His kingdom has suffered its fourth successive year of drought, combined
with a serious problem of AIDS, which affects about 38 percent of the adult
population, according to the latest government figures.
Sounds like America, excutive ignoring the courts, and the excutive
having too much power, oh, and screwing the people at the same time,
replace drought with war and questionable growth, replace that
145million with 7.1 trillion plus $400billion deficit, and you'll have
the US.
Matty
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dead?" - Norman; The Great Australian Bleeder
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| User: "--sexkitten--" |
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| Title: Re: A good advertisement for heterosexual marriage . . . |
21 Jun 2004 12:50:36 PM |
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wrote:
A good advertisement for heterosexual marriage, yes?
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Swazi king, Africa's last absolute monarch, takes 11th wife
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040621/ts_afp/swaziland_royal
s_040621145649
Nothing like good old Family Values. Maybe they need a Defense of
Marriage Act?
LUDZIDZINI, Swaziland (AFP) - Swazi King Mswati III, Africa's last absolute
monarch, has taken a new wife, bringing the number of official spouses to
11, a royal source said.
King Mswati III and 20-year-old Zena Mahlangu tied the knot last week at the
traditional headquarters of the monarchy just outside the capital city of
Mbabane.
"The occasion started in the wee hours of the morning on Wednesday and it
dragged on until afternoon," the royal source told AFP.
Zena Mahlangu's mother, Lindiwe Dlamini, had tried in vain to prevent the
king from marrying her daughter after claiming that she had been abducted by
two royal emissaries on October 18, 2002.
Royalists managed to overrule the high court of Swaziland ruling that Zena
should appear before it to say whether she was happy living in the royal
household as one of the king's two fiancees.
Media reports later quoted Zena as saying she was happy living in the royal
household but her mother dimissed them as false.
Born on April 6, 1968, only four months before Swaziland attained
independence from Britain, the British-educated King Mswati is, like the
country he rules, a mix of traditional African and modern Western
influences.
While he has embraced Western-style market-driven economic policies, the
king has adhered to traditional political culture, which allows him full
control of the executive, judiciary and executive arms of government.
Like all the Swazi kings before him, he is a polygamist.
The monarch is increasingly being criticised for his lavish lifestyle while
most of his subjects live in poverty and have to grapple with AIDS (news -
web sites), food shortages and severe drought.
The king recently attracted sweeping criticism for ordering new palaces
worth 14 million dollars for his then 10 wives and two fiancees at a time
when the country faces a deficit of around 145 million dollars.
His kingdom has suffered its fourth successive year of drought, combined
with a serious problem of AIDS, which affects about 38 percent of the adult
population, according to the latest government figures.
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--sexkitten--Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool.
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| User: "Moira de Swardt" |
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| Title: Re: A good advertisement for heterosexual marriage . . . |
22 Jun 2004 03:50:50 AM |
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"--sexkitten--" <ladyhawk_two_nospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
tock@sbcglobal.net wrote:
A good advertisement for heterosexual marriage, yes?
Swazi king, Africa's last absolute monarch, takes 11th wife
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040621/ts_afp/swaziland_royal
s_040621145649
Nothing like good old Family Values. Maybe they need a Defense of
Marriage Act?
Swaziland is also an incredibly homophobic environment. It has no gay clubs
of *any* description. Gay people are not welcome. I didn't get to meet
many gay people at all in the entire year I was there. In fact I met only
one gay man and he is not living openly as a gay person and I met him in
South Africa, but knew he was living in Swaziland.
I lived there for a year as a missionary. It currently has the highest rate
of HIV in the world.
Moira, the Faerie Godmother
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