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=1. Comrade shot by police=


 * BY MDUDUZI MAGAGULA**

MSUNDUZA—A man was shot by police yesterday during a SWAYOCO rally.

Mkhaba Maliba, a cadre based at Mananga, was shot in his hand by police after a confrontation in a protest action which was declared SWAYOCO day by the party members.

He was shot in the arm and the bullet was lodged inside his body for a long period of time with no efforts of extracting it being made.

He was also made to endure pain while lying at the Mbabane Government Hospital on a cold stretcher with no nurse in sight to help him.

After what seemed to be a long time, the bullet was eventually extracted but there was no form of seductive medication administered to him. He survived the pain that goes with the extraction process and after this procedure, the nurses at the hospital startled him when they succinctly told him to pick himself up and go home without any medication to assist him in recovering from the injury.

"They did not offer me any form of pain-killers or any medication to slow down the pain which was paralysing my arm," he told this newspaper.

His case was not different from that of the many people who were injured during the confrontation between armed to teeth police and the protesting SWAYOCO cadres at Msunduza.

They were all treated and discharged with no medication offered to them. The hospital told them that there was no medication in the whole hospital.

Other than teargas canisters that lied all over the place after the wrangle, there were cartridges from live rounds of ammunition.

Two of them were fired from a 9mm pistol, which the cadres claimed was fired by police.

One survivor Malakias Ginindza also from the organisation's Mananga branch said, "we are not testing the constitution because it is non existent, this shows that freedom will never come in a silver plate," he said.

After watching police bashing them at will, SWAYOCO has come out to declare that they would not lick their wounds while lying down. The organisation declared that it is preparing itself for the 2008 elections which it hopes to make a difference in the governance of the country.

Of note is the fact that the famous bomb suspects were in the heart of the struggle. Some of those present were Mphandlana Shongwe, Brian 'SLOVO Shaw and Mduduzi Mamba. The three and the rest of the 15 suspects face the prospects of the death sentence if convicted for the crime they were charged with.

=2. Forward ever - SWAYOCO=


 * BY MDUDUZI MAGAGULA**

MUSUNDUZA—After watching police bashing them at will, SWAYOCO has come out to declare that they would not lick their wounds while lying down.

This transpired yesterday in a rally that was meant to be peaceful but ended up being violent after SWAYOCO protestors clashed with the police.

Addressing his comrades, SWAYOCO president Alex LaNgwenya announced that his party would free itself in the country. LaNgwenya revealed that his organisation has devised a strategy, which would be very difficult for police or government to crush.

The plan has been dubbed the Rush Hour 2008. He said, "this is a command to the youth and freedom fighters of the motherland to raise the level of implementation of our liberation programme and take the struggle to the door-step of the enemy," he said.

The party stated that by the year 2008 'all the youth of the country would have battled in the battlefront in defence of the people' taking a giant stride towards the party's overdue emancipation.

The organisation further lamented the dominating number of young people in the country's jails and hospitals.

Poverty was blamed for these amenities; "the poverty situation has increased the crime rate as the youth in particular struggle to survive and that is the reason why 70% of inmates in the country jails are the youth."

The party also noted that, "the poverty situation has given rise to commercial sex workers and most of the youth is now infected with the disease."

The party further said government was deliberately running down the country health system because the elite received treatment from democratic countries who value life irrespective of class.


 * From: http://www.times.co.sz/058.html#article8**

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