Eswatini: Mswati's HIV-Aids Idiocy Highlights Our Bitter Struggle

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Swaziland's absolute ruler, [i]Mswati III, adds a grotesque twist to Marx's observation that history repeats itself, first as tragedy and then as farce.

Mswati and his regime manage to combine both qualities in equal measure: the tragedy of autocracy imposing poverty, disease and degradation on an oppressed population; the farce of the bumbling Mswati's vanity construction projects, deluded self-image of omnipotent divinity, grasping greed.

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