eSwatini’s 20 years of constitutionalism characterised by a crackdown on freedom of expression – The Mail & Guardian

eSwatini’s 20 years of constitutionalism characterised by a crackdown on freedom of expression – The Mail & Guardian

Although the African Union has declared 2025 the year of reparations, justice for Africans and people of African descent through reparations, many remain shackled by colonial legal frameworks in the hands of post-colonial and post-independence Africa.  The 2024 decision by the eSwatini supreme court to revitalise the Sedition and Subversion Act (SSA) contributes to crackdowns on freedom of expression. The last absolute monarchy in Africa will ma…