swaziland: mother fights royal bridal decree
24.10.2002
A concerned mother took southern Africa's last absolute monarch, King Mswati III of Swaziland, to court this week, challenging the selection of her daughter as his bride. Lindiwe Dlamini told the Mbabane High Court on Tuesday her daughter, Zena Soraya Mahlangu (18) was abducted by two men employed by the king of Swaziland, a small kingdom landlocked between South Africa and Mozambique.