Mswati III.
Mswati III. (. Mswati III Makhosetive; born April 19, 1968 in Manzini ) is, since April 25, 1986 King of Swaziland. He is the only reigning absolutist ruler in Africa. After a list of Forbes Magazine in 2008, he had a personal fortune of $ 200 million.
Life and work
Mswati was born on April 19, 1968 in Raleigh Fitkin Memorial Hospital in Manzini. He is a son of King Sobhuza II His mother is Ntombi, one of the younger of a total of 120 women died in 1982 monarch with whom the approximately 600 children will have witnessed.
Mswati III. was educated from 1983 to 1986 at the Military Academy Sandhurst in the United Kingdom. On April 25, 1986 Mswati III was. determined to be king of the Swasivolkes according to a secret Inthronisierungsritual. He is the 25th ruler of the Dlamini clan. Mswati III. Ruling by decree, because the last absolute monarchy in Africa have been banned since 1973, all political parties. On June 5, 2002, he headed to Parliament a bill that prohibits any political activity on pain of up to 20 years in prison.
At Mswatis III. Regency are criticizing his elaborate lifestyle and the leading abroad expensive shopping trips of his wives. So procured Mswati III. his wives new cars from BMW. He drives luxury cars from Mercedes -Benz and Maybach. By 2005, he had ten palaces for his wives build. Swaziland is one of the poorest countries in the world. The majority of the 1.37 million inhabitants of Swaziland lives below the poverty line on less than one U.S. dollar per day. The AIDS rate in Swaziland is the highest in the world; about 40 percent of the residents of Swaziland carry the virus; life expectancy of 34 years is the lowest worldwide.
In 2011, the bankruptcy using only South Africa and a loan of 250 million euros to be averted. In April rallies took place across the country, where the resignation of Mswati III. was required. The opposition accused him of looting the treasury, so that the royal family can afford a luxurious life. The mass protests were put down by the police.
The allegations that a new jet plane of the king had been bought in 2012 from state funds, contradicted the government spokesman Swaziland. The king had received the jet as a gift for the 44th birthday of friends. The democracy movement is skeptical; in 2002 tried to buy a jet worth 51 million U.S. dollars the government. This amount corresponded to the time a quarter of the budget of the country. The purchase was due to international protests not to pass. The European Union warned to stop development aid payments.
Marriages
King Mswati III. continues the tradition of polygamy in Swaziland. In May 2005 he married his eleventh wife - born in 1984, Noliqwa Ntentesa. She was engaged to be married just three years with the ruler and had lived in the royal household. In June 2005, the twelfth wedding followed: the choice had fallen on the 16- year-old beauty queen Nothando Dube, already expecting a child by him. On 27 July 2010, the Justice Minister Ndumiso Mamba was arrested with her because of an affair. As 13 women Mswati chose the 17- year-old student Phindile Nkambule. He discovered the traditional Umhlanga (also: reed dance, Reed Dance Festival) of bare-breasted virgins in September 2005, in which 4,000 women took part. The monarch decreed by decree to marry Nkambule when she was pregnant by him. 2013 Mswati had 14 wives; three of them have Mswati leave and live in exile in South Africa.