GOVERNMENT PRESS STATEMENT

NO 07: 2013

 

LAW TO REGULATE FLYING

 

Following wide-spread and ridiculous reports internationally on Swaziland’s pronouncement of a law to regulate flying (Aviation Act), which has been intentionally distorted in the media to embrace witchcraft connotations, we wish to state the following:

• There is no such clause in the laws of this country and no announcement has been made to regulate “flying witchcraft broomsticks” or any other related bizarre act.

• We have no record of Swazis buying into the “flying witchcraft broomstick” myth and there could not have been a law to go with it. It is therefore a dead story in this part of the world.

• We want to believe that some elements wanted to take advantage of cheap audiences abroad using this nonsensical myth to diminish the dignity and pride of the Swazi people.

 

Percy N. Simelane                                 15 May 2013

Government Spokesman