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Request QuoteI am a journalist aged 44, based in the Kingdom of Swaziland in Africa. Swaziland is a landlocked country, largely sandwiched by South Africa and bordered on the East by Mozambique. I have been writing news on politics, human rights, humanitarian and corruption for the past 20 years. I am currently a senior journalist for the Sunday edition of the Times of Swaziland, an independent newspaper established in 1889. I traveled to the US in 2008 to attend an Edward R. Murrow Fellowship for Journalists. In this fellowship i gained an insight of how the media operates in the United States. I visited the White House, Newseum and Capitol. I was voted an overall best reporter in Swaziland in 1997 and further received an award from the World Food Programme (WFP) for excellence in Humanitarian Crisis Reporting. One of my recent best stories is an exposure of an attempt to arrest a judge of the High Court for corruption but the move was halted by King Mswati III because the judge is related to him
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I received classified government documents which reflected a sum of E30 million (US$2.5 million), due to the King's Office, to have been misappropriated by certain people within government. Secondly, the King was exposed here as he is not supposed to be getting royalties for government projects - why?
The public had been told that the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) had applied for a Warrant of Arrest for Judge Mumcy Dlamini in the High Court but the Chief Justice did not grant it. The question on why he didn't issue the warrant was not answered until I get hold of the Chief Justice who had locked himself in his house to evade arrest for corruption cases. He revealed exclusively all to me.
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Government wants to build a 500-room six storey hotel for Us$150 million but she does not have the money to finance the project and this is despite the fact that a foundation has already been set.
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