Thursday, April 16, 2009

Arrest in Manzini

Yesterday cde Slovo was taken because of having pamphlets and the police wanted to keep him away of the action today.

Comrades, be informed that in the confrontation with the police some comrades were arrested the number is around four.But then, it might not be only those four because we were just running when they arrested the comrades.

Mostly those arrested were wearing
Release Mario t-shirts.There were also casualties in the police force also.

The leadership will correct the number
Cde Sydney from the street

Update on the mass action in Manzini Swaziland

The protest action organized and led by the Council of Swaziland Churches has taken place in the city of Manzini today to protest against government's failure to implement free primary education as ordered by the High Court of Swaziland.

Protesters assembled at Freedom Square as early as 8 am coming from all four regions of the country. The march within the city eventually started at about 10:30am with protesters expressing their anger and other fundamental demands in addition to that of free primary education. These were expressed in messages on placards, pamphlets, t-shirts,
revolutionary songs, speeches, etc aimed at the oppressive regime in Swaziland. Such included the release of PUDEMO President Mario Masuku; scrapping of the Suppression of Terrorism Act of 2008; the return to constitutional multiparty democracy.

The march continued until 13:00hours.

As expected, confrontations with the hostile security agents took place. The general assessment is that the protest action was a great success judging on the number of protesters who braved the hostility of the state's security agents.