Peter Kenworthy

‘The strategy of the Moroccan regime is to starve the Saharawi refugees into accepting the Moroccan position.

Looking at South Africa today, it is clear that the approach of the ANC has not ensured socio-economic justice for the majority of South Africa’s blacks. Indeed, the rich-poor divide has broadened, and South Africa has become the most unequal country in the world.

Will the trial of Swazi student leader, Maxwell Dlamini, and his co-accused, Musa Ngubeni, finally be heard in court?

The Student Peace Prize attempts to shed light on and increase recognition of the work of the students who are given the award.

“It is very unfortunate that a brave young comrade like Maxwell Dlamini [President of the Swaziland National Union of Students] can be made to stay in prison while we need him outside to pursue the struggle of the Swazi people,” Sibusiso Nhlabatsi, President of the Students Representative Council

Morocco’s human rights record in occupied Western Sahara has always been poor.

“The walls of Mbabane were vibrating with the shouts of Viva Pudemo [banned political party">, viva Swayoco [youth wing of Pudemo">,” says Secretary General of Swaziland Federation of Trade Unions Mduduzi Gina.

A new, well-educated generation of Swazis have been inspired by the uprisings in North Africa, as well as compelled by their own increasingly desperate situation of mass-unemployment and poverty, to try and replace the undemocratic and corrupt absolute monarchy that is Swaziland with a democratic

Coca-Cola is one of the largest and wealthiest companies in the world, as well as being one of the world’s best-known brands.

‘People will easily be able to sympathise with our issues, but they need the information first.’ Senia Bachir Abderahman is talking about the situation in the refugee camp that she grew up in and the frustration that her family and most of her fellow Saharawis (Western Sahara’s indigenous populat