PUDEMO vows intensify pro-democracy protests in eSwatini
eSwatini's People's United Democratic Movement (PUDEMO) has vowed to intensify the ongoing pro-democracy protests in the Kingdom.
The neighbouring country's government has now banned protests, saying it's instructed city and town officials not to issue any permits for demonstrations.
Last week, a union there said security forces used live ammunition to disperse protesting nurses, wounding scores of them.
President Cyril Ramaphosa, in his capacity as Chairperson of SADC's organ on defence, politics and security, has sent special envoys to eSwatini to meet with King Mswati III.
At a press briefing on Sunday, PUDEMO president Mlungisi Makhanya said it was a defining moment for the people of eSwatini.
"The decade of liberation was upon us, This is a real Swazi moment and it can only be taken forward by sustained struggle in our communities, factories, taxi rank, rural and urban areas.
"It is therefore not by mistake that we have been consistent in our narration that the liberation of the people of eSwatini shall and will be an act of the people themselves."
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