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2018-05-01 Africa Subsaharan

Swaziland: King Wears Watch Worth U.S.$1.6-Million

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Posted by Fred 2018-05-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
File under: Tin Hat Dictators & Kleptocrats

#1 Here's how the worthless kaffir paid for it. USAID Report - $10 Million USD in 2018, which is considerably down form a high of $35 Million USD in 2016.

Send more USD. I need mo BLING !

40% Unemployment and the highest HIV Aids rate in the world. Excellent investment ek se.

(1 SZL = .08 USD) With a population of just over 1 million, the USAID contribs appear to be little more than international welfare.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-05-01 02:37|| 2018-05-01 02:37|| Front Page Top

#2 How much is thought Chavez's daughter move out of Caracas?

Posted by P2kontheroad 2018-05-01 06:22|| 2018-05-01 06:22|| Front Page Top

#3 1 SZL = .08 USD

One shizzle equals 8 cents US? Not exactly a sign of a thriving economy.

Posted by SteveS 2018-05-01 08:29|| 2018-05-01 08:29|| Front Page Top

#4 Swaziland is roughly (just a bit over) the population of the State of Montana. I wonder if there are any poverty stricken people in Montana that you use some USAID assistance? Say, a few hundred dollars per year per family ?

Posted by Besoeker 2018-05-01 08:36|| 2018-05-01 08:36|| Front Page Top

#5 Does Swaziland qualify as a $#it-hole country?

Seems like it to me.

Posted by AlanC 2018-05-01 09:58|| 2018-05-01 09:58|| Front Page Top

#6 Jeez, talk about conspicuous... consumption! rimshot

Posted by Dat Old TB 2018-05-01 15:54|| 2018-05-01 15:54|| Front Page Top

#7 Come on people - KEEP UP !!!
THE King of Swaziland, Mswati III, has a problem. “Whenever we go abroad”, he says, “people refer to us as Switzerland.” So on April 18th, at a celebration marking the 50th anniversary of the country’s independence from Britain, the king announced that he was changing Swaziland’s name to eSwatini. (As an absolute monarch he can make such decisions.) With its lower-case “e”, this new name might seem at first glance to be an attempt to rebrand one of the world’s last remaining absolute monarchies as something a little more modern, but the new name in fact simply means “Land of the Swazis”.

Posted by Classer 2018-05-01 16:58|| 2018-05-01 16:58|| Front Page Top

#8 Love their jungled Alps

Posted by Frank G 2018-05-01 17:45|| 2018-05-01 17:45|| Front Page Top

#9 I bought a Swazi watch from a guy in Times Square and it was a piece of junk.

Posted by Grunter 2018-05-01 19:59|| 2018-05-01 19:59|| Front Page Top

#10 ^ "Fine timepiece, brother?"

Posted by Anginert Tojo9923 2018-05-01 20:16|| 2018-05-01 20:16|| Front Page Top

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