‘A conditional love’: King Mswati's long reign became a sleepwalk into disaster

When journalist Patrick Bulger met the young Swazi king in 1983, a teenager who’d returned from boarding school in the UK to meet his subjects, no-one could have predicted how things would turn out for Eswatini

31 October 2021 - 00:04

King Mswati III, the playboy ruler and absolute monarch of the Kingdom of Eswatini,  was a schoolboy in Britain when he was taken from the proverbial playing fields of Eton and introduced to the “nation’’ in what was then Swaziland, in September 1983...

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