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the protest for democracy in africa, law, absolute monarchy. the king of s y p. any friend, lavishly while most in his country live in poverty. will he listen to the call to change this inside story? ah, ah, hello and welcome to the show i'm sam is a than. that's what he and he is one of the world's last absolute monarchies,

kingdom swati has ruled the kingdom previously known a swaziland for 35 years bought for the past week. people have been defying curve, used to demand democratic reforms that angry at widespread poverty. while the king spends millions on private jets and luxury cars, opposition groups, se soldiers of killed dozens of protesters and the government has denied reports. the king has fled to south africa as martini's regional allies of calling for political dialogue to come. the rest will bring in our guests in a moment. first, this report like say, o'brien anger and frustration. an 8th, what teeny crowds built barricades confirmed tires despite an overnight curfews, while the opposition colon a tipping point for the nation. the demonstrations like this, a rare and more landlocked country,

formerly known land. but the saint has been simmering for years. much of it focused on kingdom swati, africa, his last absolute monarch, and one of the few remaining in the world that he was crowned and 986 aged just a pain and has unfettered political power. he has disdain wives. oh, and has been criticized for his lavish spending. almost denise, what teenie live in poverty. we are there any way out so much by the government? sounds good. i'm with over time. if our government can't say no, you get all of them. is that the ones that i miss mama, the protestors say they want democracy, political parties a band. and even though people are allowed to vote from in the parliament,

the opposition says they not elections. more selection of people signed off by the king with young people that we don't want to keep to be part of the government in the one to part of the government. us citizen like the rest of us in court. where like, everyone of us from shops in it's to biggest cities have been looted and others say on fire. the military's been out to enforce the curfew, which the government says is to ensure the safety and security of residents. oh, that's good. about the opposition say some protest has been killed and many others wounded. the acting prime minister says he's open to hearing the people complain that demonstration isn't the way to do it. nation that the new government has opened an email address where must want to can continue to direct

their concerns and petition for decades. king and philosophies being portrayed as a deeply popular monarch. now the government being forced to deny reports, he fled the country. his kingdom appears to be in crisis, and sir bryan al jazeera. ah, ah, well, let's bring our guests into the show. joining us on the phone from us. what do you need them? them? good. see mccain? the leader of the opposition put demo party in cape town. we have seen the political and country risk analyst men, the logo, he works at signal risk and in london, christopher van dyke, research fellow, with the africa program at chatham house. welcome to all if i could start with them gipsy. first of all next. what teeny. this is of course not the 1st time unless you see that we've had protests in swati. all the protest different this time round though. indeed,

quite different this time about the time slot is faced with a generation of young people who had to take some time to look at themselves and decide their top few job day one of the times. and they lived at that point about, it cannot be business as usual, and they've got to take a step and decisive step to load the final blow into the life of this. even jim mancy, it sounds from walton dc, is saying that this is quite serious. how i cure all the reports. the protesters are being shot dead. yeah. so due to the closure of the internet and restrictions you communications, the number of casualties con,

be entirely verified. but what i'm hearing from my so on the ground. some of them law family members, they can confirm that they have some bottom and violent struggle that has been inactive on the protesters, by, by the, by the army and by police know, and this really is a trajectory or a tendency that we have seen amongst s y b as security personnel throughout the reign of kingdom. so this tendency, the to respond with co action to any kind of dissidence and any kind of grievances that are being publicly ad by the civilian population. chris, so it seems this time round the protests have been initially sparked by that government decree, banning any petition for democratic reform want prompted them to issue such a decree. so what prompted them to issue

a decrease the restrict democratic reform? i think it comes out of the prices that have been bubbling up following an incident earlier in may involving students in east genie and off the back of that, we've seen this growing rise in process so it's not just, this is not just what's been happening in june, this has been growing for some time. think what's important here is to build on what has been saying is the importance of the role of the youth in the protest and where we've seen protest in the past that have been organized either by the trade unions or by others that have be very specifically targeted towards democratic reforms, but organized in a, a, kind of, in a strict away, they seem to be far free protest and we're seeing people say things and seen people

do things is a little bit unprecedented in. so my question, if you're, if you're the, the government, why would you issue a decree to ban anyone even submitting a petition? why wouldn't you at least go through the motions except the petition and make the kind of statements it seems the government is now making saying, hey we, we hear what you guys are saying. and we're looking into why she's such a decree. because i think it's exactly what your, your guess from cape town has been saying, which is that there is a clear memo for the government of east bettina throughout the last couple of decades, which is when they think that things are going when the, when the pressure is starting to boil up than they clamped down. was different here is that they tried that approach and they tried to get ahead of this and they tried to issue that degree and they tried to cross it. but actually what's going on here at the moment is different to what's happened in the past, and they haven't been able to cautious in the same way and it's been altered and

the violence on the streets that we've seen. right? it does seem like things are escalating, the mom gacy, our protest is still calling simply for reform and end of corruption and so on. or are they now calling for a complete end of the monarchy they're calling from the project as indeed escalated to the issue that they want. and total police meant of this thing of them or not. but just to add on why crease will say, why don't we are working? the situation is the fact that the teeth of the teeth have been leaving and posting on social media variable seen in the face of grinding pover before that was not as they do. and since this thing was hold on, the social media and the people were reduced to spectator when they see that they're mainly please seeing the corner on the point where it became part of him

too many people that this is not just the family, but this is an institution of pop ups that leave off the sweat and blood of the not and so they have been a lot of fun to god had been sick today, so infected that didn't swap the popular king among the people of pleasant families . not being true, didn't go by for this long class, actually because this only made sure that they clam down on any form of organization. so we checked planes, why they took the decision to band for delivery of conditions because through the process of delivering, producing people who are getting an idea of only know that when you do present it to them. let me play, let me play devil's advocate here. and so i should point out,

well we did reach out to the authorities and as what teeny and invited governments spokesperson on or government official onto the show. but unfortunately we didn't hear back from them. however, let me try and play devil's advocate a little bit here. and present to the government line, they say that the authorities say that they simply applying law and order. this is not about suppressing people. this is not about squashing people. this is about establishing law and order. as you can see, they would point out and some of the pictures you've seen looting. they want to prevent the country from descending into chaos. had respond to that. i wish that it provided for you the images of what was happening when the people who had anybody in the petition it was that was never violent when people were delivered in positions violence that the government bend the delivery of petition. and when the people interested on defining that, been to go and petition the police splendid, brutal,

both fighting and shooting. and even at times live live on peaceful protest. tools only clara was to be on be about him. but i think it is important to speak to the excuse that they used when bending the delivery of these positions, which was this. but of course, in the us to we dictate scheme and hope that not lives and thinks that the party who is having huge for the fees will close friends inside company now. so it's not about people get about it. it is about denying the poor, the opportunity to gather and express their frustration with your team and talking about public appearances by the king men's. he why haven't we seen the can make any public appearance. now make any statement when you know the countries clearly been gripped by some serious term on i think more than anything if i'm diety,

and unwillingness to come and step up and account for the actions of his government . and i think there might be an element of elemental, uncertain, and he's trying to wait for the situation to sit down and fall. i guess this whole operation of law and order to take it school was and i get in his hopes to, to, to establish some degree of calm before he comes out and says, ok, i am like negotiated whether or not this will arise during the circumstances that is still on the balance historically as louise, he has no, i mean pro democracy sentiments in what the need are not something new. you know, it's a sentiment that folks have help decades on end. and the monarchy has been able to write out combination of speak and carried mechanism,

and instances of the rest. there is a tendency by the monarch to keep quiet until things on order. so it is no surprise to us that the king has kept silent while his generals, while his police officials do the work, call the population down and then when things are a little bit calmer, he'll probably come out and speak out. right, chris, have so we should explain some of the political background to this story as what the need is a monarchy where the king is above the law and has absolute political power, right? this is the environment, the political environment we're talking about. yes, so this goes back to the period in which he's 15 year old and swaziland claimed us independence from the united kingdom. it was a protector. it. and when that independence came, and king abuser whose between his father there was a process of kind of nation building the involved

a kind of strong cultural element of separating aside what is kind of typically with teeny versus south africa and creating that divide of trying to politician against what was then apartheid south africa in creating this very distinct and separate country. and so the king's authority of the absolute monarch has been partly built upon this building of a culture and a cultural identity for the country and his place within it. right? so there has been some form of democracy within the currently system, but this is what in the king has, has came to the form of democracy under the tinker system, where you have people up appointed, you have some elections, but as your, as your piece at the beginning said, it's largely a selection process, but it's still under the control of, of the king himself. now, whether have been protest or precious the full, including,

or especially around election times and from international corners around election time. they have forced times a reaction from the king. for example, during the head of the 2013 elections is when he coined vista monoxide cool democracy as a way of categorizing the political and right that let me bring a d. c. and under this point that christopher was talking about the degree of, shall we say, a political process, but political parties were banned in 1973. so how do political parties like yours operate 20, what am i just crazy? it's quite a lot, you know, political parties were banned in 1970 it decree. but the pod to that i come from and put demo does not even fall among the bent

as that was taken by the team on put them in 2008 to criminalize demos away approved guy had to do that. to me. i'm a friends and so i've lived to belong to put them or to be seen, wedding, anything that is good, i mean to them. and they say history to the because for the long time i put them all the only portent political weapon in the hands of that democracy in people of swaziland, i need to do that when they came to realize that the most effective way of shutting them out of the people of love then is to pass some production of terrorism that effectively bend to demo and you would leak. right, so avenues of being blocked. let's talk a little bit about economics. menzies, to what extent is economic hardship driving the discontent? some estimates for poverty,

it's above 60 percent and unemployment depending on how you measure it at 40 percent. absolutely, absolutely. i think we can discuss the importance of economic factors being a key driver often addressed at the moment. we've seen. that's why the states struggle to pay its workers, and that's led to a whole class of protests that, that occurred prior to this, that we see. the state has struggled to pay teachers. the state has struggled to deliver services all the while as easy mention the king and his close circle has been living opulent life. so meant that you can call it dry. and i think in the sense, yes, i think there is a degree of ordination, or least of consequence of demands. you know, previously what we saw from outside was the strike action was relatively disparate . but when the prime minister issue that they pre on the 24th of may,

they seem to be coming together. but at the same time, do i think it's important to been mind that pro democracy sentiments have been simmering and it's working for a while now. and i think that 24th of may decrease was to speak. be spurred that chris the size of this wasn't people's intent. i don't know what the whole corona virus pandemic, which has exacerbated social economic concerns. why do you need all the while the king and his president, all the kids have been living by and the state also received various channels of funding. for instance, they have yet to account funding received from but i am id and all this, right? the crash, the old building off in the public. no doubt. yes. let's bring in linguistics. we've just got a few minutes and we've heard opposition figures them lagossi calling for south africa to impose sanctions. is that where the opposition is going?

is it, is it counting on pressure for from regional axes and international axes? now, indeed, we are calling for decisive pressure from regional and international play. we're calling for a target. it's fun. she gains that king and close the close of the who are responsible for placing this was because it is true that these uprising is economy issues. the king of been through the government taking lot of responsible loan because they realize that they're empty to the core of the nation. the only way to access that it's all to be was through that responsible and the relation alone. yes. was calling for the region. yes. was calling for the international community by tomorrow and maybe was calling for the criminal charges to be preferred in the king and the government because of all of the med that had been

committed during the but i did a lot of people have ideas. and once that doctor said that the international community would be shrugged by the figure of the people who have been tooth randomly by what the soldier endings can actually consort the turing. this protest, right, christopher 90 percent of 14, these imports come from south africa, 70 percent of his exports go to the republic. the country relies us. what he knew relies on a then assistance from countries like the united states. how do you read the, the mood right now in regional and international castles toward the 14 me meeting is very important question. and when we wrote our report now a years ago we called it was a land southern african forgotten crisis for exactly this reason that this has been bubbling along for a long time. and we were trying to gone at some international attention on it. because for exactly to point out the international capital,

this is not high up on the agenda and it was really interesting at the moment. 2 things, one as i'm in jeezy has said, you know, there's, there's a situation that has come out of the fact that the money that has been going into is retaining, has not been used to deliver development and citizens in the country. seeing what's going on elsewhere. and then not feeling the benefits of development in the country and the point to one person, which is the monarchy. now the relationship with that because always been very complex for multiple reasons. per demo has a relationship with consulting to sit within the tripartite alliance in south africa. former president zoom. i had his own personal relationship with the king doc has long been looking at the country and in 2030 and actually made recommendations to government. this needs to be something to be, to be dealt with,

but i don't think it's been clear with in south africa what they have in terms of diplomatic resources to be able to, to engage. and there's not really clear what he said. they suddenly got a lot of the right. i think we just got a minute left. i want to give it to mc enough. this final question we heard at the beginning of the show, the call by him and see that the protest is want the monarchy to go christopher's kind of outline for us, what the mood is of regional and international actors. what do you think it's going to end with it? topple the monarchy. i think history warns against having great expectations when events like this occur. and as much as we might be a massive change, it doesn't necessarily mean that it will occur. and we have seen the monarchy adapt itself to varying circumstances. so i would code my enthusiasm, and i would expect it to be some kind of political process that needs the monarchy

intact, somewhat. but perhaps with some great allowances or political activity by the opposition. and by civil society at large arrive, it's been a fascinating discussion, i'm sure we could go on a lot longer, but i'm afraid we are out of time. so let's thank our guests for their wonderful contributions, num good. see my kenya mensray and global. and christopher vander and thank you to for watching, you can see the show again, any time by visiting our website, al jazeera dot com for further discussion head over to our facebook page. that's facebook dot com, forward slash a j inside story. you can also join the conversation on twitter handle barry's at a j in the side story from me, sammy's a van and the whole inside story team here. thanks for joining us. the

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