Hon Chairperson, I hereby give notice on behalf of the DA that at the next sitting of the Council I intend moving:
That the Council -
1) notes with concern reports apparently confirmed by the Swaziland government, that South Africa has agreed to lend Swaziland R1,2 billion as a bailout;
2) also notes that King Mswati III of Swaziland, the last absolute monarch in the world, has consistently refused to allow a democratic dispensation, lives a lavish lifestyle and has squandered the Swazi people's money on private jets and numerous palaces and wives;
3) further notes the recent vicious crackdown on trade unionists and other protestors who were simply trying to peacefully obtain the free democracy that is their right; and
4) therefore calls on the South African government to impose strict conditions on any loan to Swaziland and that such conditions must include:
a) the scrapping of the 38-year-old state of emergency;
b) the implementation of universal human rights;
c) that none of the loan funds be spent on the monarchy;
d) the immediate implementation of a multiparty transitional government; and
e) the immediate start of multiparty negotiations towards a new democratic constitution for Swaziland.