MBABANE:Army Commander Moses Mashikilisane Fakudze is in Mozambique to consult traditional healers amid tension within the Umbutfo Eswatini Defense Force(UEDF).
After receiving information from Army sources earlier on Saturday morning suggesting that, he might travel to Mozambique to consult traditional healers, this journalist verified and/or traced the Army Commander’s whereabouts using his diplomatic passport number.
As a result, the Ministry of Home Affairs Immigration computer systems suggest that, he crossed the border on Saturday(28th June 2025) around 6:09am, efforts to reach him for a comment proved unsuccessful at the time of compiling this report.
The Army Commander who is now a subject of a royal investigation allegedly looted about R20million monies belonging to soldiers and subsequently closed the Burial Fund that was assisting soldiers with “imali yekulila” amounting to twelve thousand Rands(R12,000.00) when visiting families to mourn the death of another soldier.
But apart from that, the Commander Fakudze has been receiving five thousand Rands(R5,000.00) per-week as “litiya la-Commander” from Hlalawati, a Saving and Cooperative Fund belonging to soldiers, the looted monies since Fakudze took over as the Army Commander, amount to about R1million.
A few days ago, this publication reported that, the Army Commander informed Commanding Officers(COs) during a meeting held at Nokwane Headquarters that, King Mswati “has commissioned an investigation to investigate the allegations published by the Swaziland News against him”.
The Army Commander is also facing arrest after allegedly unleashing soldiers to attack Brigadier General Zenzele ‘Ace’ Dlamini with weapons of war, Brigadier Dlamini subsequently opened a criminal case at Mafutseni Police Station and has been making a follow-up with the police insisting that, he wants nothing but, to see a suspect(siboshwa) behind bars.
Army Commander Moses Mashikilisane Fakudze(pic: supplied).