(19 Sep 2025)
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Pretoria, South Africa – 19 September 2025
1. Wide pro-democracy activists from Eswatini marching to the U.S Embassy in Pretoria
2. Pro-democracy activists singing as they march to the U.S Embassy
3. Close-up protester holding up sign reading (English) "We demand accountability – No more secret in our land"
4. Wide activists arriving at the U.S Embassy
5. Close of the U.S flag at embassy
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Philile Khumalo, protest organizer:
"Just the other day, stats came out to say Swaziland is the 2nd highest in suicide rates in Africa. And I mean those are social economic issues that are actually causing that, because there’s just so much poverty. Yet there’s a man (King Mswati III) who’s able to make a deal between himself and the U.S. government to say he will take $500 million and none of that is going to be received by the Swazi people. No way that the Swazi people are going to actually benefit from any of that. So that’s why today we are standing here ."
7. Wide activist addressing crowd
8. Close of protester holding banner reading (English) "Say no to oppression. End absolute monarchy in Swaziland."
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Sakhile Nxumalo, president of Swaziland Youth Congress:
"Situation is very unfortunate. We have a king that got 15 wives and these wives of the king, they’ve never worked anywhere, and these R2 billion that come with these criminals or these people from the United States – is going to continue sustaining the monarch not necessarily the people of Swaziland or even assisting the people of Swaziland to fight crime. So, it is for that reason we came here and say, comrade: The United States and Swaziland must just take their people out of our country."
10. Various of protesters being addressed by speakers outside the U.S embassy
STORYLINE:
Pro-democracy protesters from Eswatini marched on the U.S. embassy in Pretoria on Friday, in opposition to a deal that would see their country receive immigrants deported from the U.S.
Activists at the protests carried banners demanding an end to absolute monarchy, alleging that the country’s monarch – King Mswati III – was being paid a substantial sum of money in the deal.
Philile Khumalo, one of the protest organizers, told The Associated Press that there was too much poverty in Eswatini, and that no one in the country would benefit from the alleged money.
As they marched to the U.S Embassy, the protesters chanted and sang songs.
Sakhile Nxumalo, president of Swaziland Youth Congress, also expressed anger at the King’s 15 wives who, he says, have never worked.
"So, it is for that reason we came here and say, comrade: The United States and Swaziland must just take their people out of our country."
AP video by Nqobile Ntshangase
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