While the entire 63 percent of the population classified as poor in Swaziland, live its royal head, King Mswati III, a life of luxury.
The 51-year-old king lives in clover has often been the subject of criticism over the years, but it does not suggest that King Mswati III has been more timid over the years.
the Monarch, which supposedly is good for 200 million dollars – equivalent to around 1.3 billion dollars – has at least just given it, as critics call for a ‘royal fuckfinger’ to the people.
According to the media, King Mswati III used about 113 million dollars on at least 15 new Rolls-Royce, and a dozen BMW’s. It writes The Times.
Some of the cars is reportedly to his total of 15 wives, while the rest is to a number of his closest family members.
the Cars were immortalised on camera, when they were delivered from south Africa to his palace in Swaziland (with the official name of the Kingdom of eSwatini), and the expensive acquisition has really caused a stir.
Especially because it comes a short time after that, public employees have been on the streets to protest against the low wages in the country.
“In Swaziland Kolaybet have public servants not received lønjusteringer in three years, and the health system has completely collapsed, so the weakest of the weakest are extra-vulnerable,” says Wandile Dludlu from the Democratic Movement to Times Live.
in addition, He says that King Mswati III’s spending is a sign of arrogance and indifference of the people.
“He gives them virtually his middle finger,” he says.
It is as said not the first time that King Mswati III is being criticized for bragging about his luxurious life, while his people go hungry to bed.
In 2014, took the King Mswati III headlines the world over, because he was at the sensational show has managed to keep its annual budget down to 61 million dollars – which stands in stark contrast to the fact that the majority of his people must live for one dollar a day.
in Addition to a fleet of luxury cars, owns the king also several private jets as well as its very own airport.
Mswati III became king as a mere 18-year-old, which at that time made him the youngest monarch in the world. He has at least 15 wives and 23 children.
As bonus information to the interested readers, it may be added, that when King Mswati III was 50 years old last year, he celebrated it by changing the country’s name to eSwatini, which was its original name before it in the early 1900s, was colonized by the united kingdom.
eSwatini means ‘Swaziernes country’.
