The faces behind Eswatini’s terrosist groups

THE HIDDEN SIDE - ESWATINI
3 min readNov 23, 2022

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The people behind the unprecedented wave of violence in Eswatini have been uncovered. Most of them have openly commended the attacks and very strongly hinted the parts they played in the violence.

Zweli Martin Dlamini, Thabiso Moloi, Bonginkosi Dlamini, and Mlungisi Makhanya

The two terrorist groups are Swaziland International Solidarity Forces (SISF) and Sikhali Sesive Semaswati (SSS). The have murdered over 10 state security forces in cold blood, injured more, carried out arson attacks where children have been hurt, and have kidnapped as well as threatened teachers and a student for being in school in the midst of their violent threats to shut down the country.

Here are the faces behind the two terrorist groups:

1. Zweli Martin Dlamini — Founder and Editor of SwazilandNews.com

Zweli Martin “Zwemart” Dlamini was very open about his desire to purchase weapons and begin killing people in the Kingdom of Eswatini. He admitted this during an address where he called for the burning of a certain garage in Eswatini, which was subsequently burnt the following day. He openly expressed his desire to destabilise any efforts for a political dialogue until a lot of Emaswati had been killed. Watch the video yourself if you don’t believe his brazenness.

Zwemart does not work alone as a major figure in the SISF.

2. Mlungisi Makhanya — President of PUDEMO

This political party leader has also exposed himself through his very own admissions that he desires and actively supports the arming of Emaswati to instill fear through violence towards the state. Zwemart even went further by exposing Mlungisi Makhanya as the commander of the Solidarity Forces in an article he published on Swaziland News.

Zwemart claims that he went with the commander to inspect weapons, publishing a picture which was recognised by everyone on social media to be Mlungisi Makhanya. This only added to Makhanya’s own proclamations to support “an armed struggle” in the Kingdom of Eswatini.

3. Thabiso Moloi and Zulu Mageba

Thabiso Moloi is another pseudo journalist who also doubles as a terorrism organiser. Moloi is a propagandist under the Swaziland Democratic News, and he resolved that this is not enough as he is a also a political organiser by his own admission.

Moloi recently made a video encouraging the public to protest as chaotically as possible. For good measure he added that any police officer who used “tear gas” or “rubber bullets” would have their picture circulated on social media so that “they are taken care of”.

Zulu Mageba is a colleague of Moloi at Swaziland Democratic News, as well as the SSS. He never shows his face, so we won’t be able to show you yet.

4. Bonginkosi IB Dlamini

Dlamini was expelled from PUDEMO and has founded United Eswatini Diaspora as a movement. This movement has spawned the SSS terrorist group which is working closely with members of SWALIMO, the Communist Party of Swaziland (CPS), and a breakaway sector of PUDEMO’s Swaziland Youth Congress (SWAYOCO).

The two organisations have caused a lot of damage to the livelihoods of innocent Emaswati whom they claim to be fighting for, and it is time that they openly claim their work.

The Hidden Side will bring you more from Eswatini’s premier terrorist organisations as we uncover it.

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