Mswati III

Swaziland princess Sikhanyiso raps for royalty (see video)

Princess Sikhanyiso Dlamini of Swaziland is the eldest of King Mswati’s thirty children fathered by 10 queens. Educated at some of the world’s finest private schools and universities, the princess has embraced a more modern lifestyle than Swaziland’s royals are used to. Here she is rapping it with her subjects:

Scores of young Swaziland girls heading to ‘reed dance’ die in traffic collision

The deaths of scores of young women and teen girls in Swaziland headed to a controversial “reed dance” continued to spark outrage this over the weekend in southern Africa, with questions swirling over why such a large group was being transported on a flatbed truck.