Chronic unemployment and overcrowding are to blame for the steady rise in violent crime in Swaziland’s largest urban centre, Manzini, according to the city’s residents. While the media continue to report incidents of attacks against prominent figures – a robber recently stabbed a former health minister seven times at the local post office – local leaders and the police are stymied for a solution. The city made international headlines earlier this year when bus conductors enforced a ban on women wearing miniskirts at the bus terminus by gang-raping an 18-year-old girl. Full Story
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