Swaziland – 10 November 2015

LET US GIVE GOOD EDUCATION TO OUR CHILDREN
The community should stand together for the children so that Swaziland can be counted as a rich country as well, maybe by 2022 we will have taken great strides. Parents should lead by example when it comes to their children. Education is the most powerful tool one can use to change the world or any country.
Why are so many young school-going children involved in criminal activities in Swaziland? Children are stealing from their own homesteads why? The upbringing of any child is very important. This comfort zone has destroyed many people.
Times of Swaziland

MPS OPPOSE REGISTRATION OF KIDS USING MUMS’ SURNAMES
Members of Parliament (MPs) have expressed outrage at the fact that unmarried women can register children using their maiden surname.
The legislators labelled this as unSwazi and said chiefs were not even aware that single women were now allowed to do this.
This was during a Motion without Notice moved by Manzini North MP Jan Sithole, who once again moved a motion that Birth, Marriage and Death certificates should be issued at Tinkhundla centres instead of the headquarters in Mbabane, which was much against the decentralisation policy.
Manzini South MP Owen Nxumalo submitted that he had been summoned by his chief to explain all the changes that the Ministry of Home Affairs was seemingly effecting.
“Now they want children to be registered in their mothers’ surnames and they are actually allowing this yet such changes were never communicated to us or to the chiefs,” said Nxumalo.
Times of Swaziland