Swazi queen's lover filmed emerging from under bed

Swaziland's former justice minister, Ndumiso Mamba, was almost caught red-handed during one of his secret sexcapades with one of King Mswati's wives.

Tell-all pictures taken by state security agents show Mamba trying to manoeuvre himself out of the base of a bed while a group of agents watched.

Mamba's love affair with Mswati's 12th wife, Queen Nothando Dube, was recently exposed, and has caused huge embarrassment to Africa's last absolute monarchy.

In the pictures posted on www. newzimbabwe.com, Mamba, dressed in a suit and shirt, desperately tried to disappear after sensing approaching trouble.

He and Dube were in a luxury hotel owned by the polygamous 42-year-old king about 10km west of his Lozitha Palace.

Clearly caught off-guard and embarrassed, Mamba was ordered to stop hiding, and emerged head first. He was immediately arrested, and now faced a charge of trespassing in "another man's home", the website reports.

Mamba is expected to be exiled from Swaziland.

Security agents have evidently been investigating his affair with Dube, one of the king's 14 wives.

Dube is said to have used elaborate disguises when going to trysts with Mamba, who is also married. The queen is said to have donned military uniform to leave her palace undetected.