Matete and towards oppositional movements advocating for a modern and independent Basutoland. At present, the two largest opposition movements, the Basutoland National League under Chief Joseph Leabua Jonathan and the PAC-aligned Basutoland African Congress under Ntsu Mokhele, have formed a united front in calling for a constitutional system of government able to check Moshoeshoe's currently unlimited powers.
To the east, Swaziland's estimable Ngwenyama Sobhuza II rules his lands as a royal dictator. Once a reformer engaged in the work of his progressively-minded subjects, the aging monarch has become increasingly wary of any efforts to limit his royal prerogative. In that sense, South Africa's offered quid pro quo - that of obeisance in return for a free hand domestically - had been a godsend.
In contrast to the backwards Basutoland, Swaziland has had something of an economic boom since the 1940s. Swaziland is home to many profitable mines and plantations, most of which are in the hands of European corporations and a thriving settler community of nearly ten thousand. Unsurprisingly, these settlers, who make their outsized voices heard through the European Advisory Council, have benefited greatly from the arrival of the HNP and its representative, Jacobus Loubser.
Democratic and partisan politics do not exist in the new Swaziland, and even the Libandla lakaNgwane, the aristocratic Council of the Ngwane Nation, has been marginalized. Of course, politics have been banished - far from it. Alongside the European Advisory Council, other advocacy groups exist, like the EurAfrican Welfare Association, but they pale in comparison to the EAC's influence. Real opposition to Sobhuza and South African influence has come from the Swaziland Progressive Association. While handicapped by the monarchy's extensive popular support, it enjoys shrewd leadership under men like Dr. Ambrose Zwane and John Nquku. Unfortunately, this has come at something of a cost, as Nquku, despite his skill, has proven to be rather authoritarian himself, threatening to split the organization. For his part, Zwane looks not only to neighboring South Africa's ANC for guidance, but increasingly to President Nkrumah's Accra, and only the insistence of the South African authorities has prevented his visiting the capital of Pan-Africanist action.
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To the east, Swaziland's estimable Ngwenyama Sobhuza II rules his lands as a royal dictator. Once a reformer engaged in the work of his progressively-minded subjects, the aging monarch has become increasingly wary of any efforts to limit his royal prerogative. In that sense, South Africa's offered quid pro quo - that of obeisance in return for a free hand domestically - had been a godsend.
In contrast to the backwards Basutoland, Swaziland has had something of an economic boom since the 1940s. Swaziland is home to many profitable mines and plantations, most of which are in the hands of European corporations and a thriving settler community of nearly ten thousand. Unsurprisingly, these settlers, who make their outsized voices heard through the European Advisory Council, have benefited greatly from the arrival of the HNP and its representative, Jacobus Loubser.
Democratic and partisan politics do not exist in the new Swaziland, and even the Libandla lakaNgwane, the aristocratic Council of the Ngwane Nation, has been marginalized. Of course, politics have been banished - far from it. Alongside the European Advisory Council, other advocacy groups exist, like the EurAfrican Welfare Association, but they pale in comparison to the EAC's influence. Real opposition to Sobhuza and South African influence has come from the Swaziland Progressive Association. While handicapped by the monarchy's extensive popular support, it enjoys shrewd leadership under men like Dr. Ambrose Zwane and John Nquku. Unfortunately, this has come at something of a cost, as Nquku, despite his skill, has proven to be rather authoritarian himself, threatening to split the organization. For his part, Zwane looks not only to neighboring South Africa's ANC for guidance, but increasingly to President Nkrumah's Accra, and only the insistence of the South African authorities has prevented his visiting the capital of Pan-Africanist action.
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