By Bongiwe Dlamini

MBABANE:Lucky Lukhele,the Spokesperson of the Swaziland Solidarity Network(SSN), an international advocacy wing of the People’s United Democratic Movement(PUDEMO) has told IOL News that, by flooding him with court papers, King Mswati’s State agents want Swaziland News editor Zweli Martin Dlamini’s location so that they can kill him like human rights lawyer Thulani Rudolf Maseko.

Lukhele was responsible to the South African publication on Saturday,after being asked to comment about the recent NewsRoom Afrika interview by Government Spokesperson Alpheous Nxumalo,and the ongoing court case filed by aMswati and the eSwatini Government at the Mpumalanga High Court.

“My father passed away three years. I cannot travel back home to commiserate with my family. The king wants my head on a platter. When my father died, soldiers and police descended on my community, seeking information on whether I will be coming for the funeral. It will be worse for Zweli if he is to return to Swaziland. He has exposed them so much, and this whole court case is a ploy to ruin him financially.The court case in Mpumalanga launched by the government of eSwatini is a continuation of intimidation of journalists, media practitioners and activists in Swaziland. The reality of the matter is that because the Swaziland government can no longer control Zweli Dlamini since he relocated to South Africa, they are now using all processes to destroy him. The Swaziland government is doing this to collapse Zweli Dlamini financially, using the bottomless government cookie jar”, said the Spokesperson when responding to the IOL News.

Lukhele further mentioned that, the regime was on a mission to cripple the editor.

“This case launched in Mpumalanga is intimidation in the extreme.They want to cripple the editor of a loved independent publication and we would like to thank the people helping Zweli.Mswati’s government knows that they will lose this case. They had not anticipated that Zweli would fight this much at this level. The court case was a bid to get Zweli’s address so that they can send down their specialized people to eliminate him, as they did to Thulani Maseko,” Lukhele insisted.