{"id":10054,"date":"2013-09-06T10:23:38","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T10:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10054"},"modified":"2013-09-06T10:23:38","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T10:23:38","slug":"former-member-of-mandela-government-detained-in-swaziland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10054","title":{"rendered":"Former member of Mandela government detained in Swaziland"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10055\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10055\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/jaynaidoo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10055\" alt=\"Jay Naidoo\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/jaynaidoo.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/jaynaidoo.jpg 275w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/jaynaidoo-148x98.jpg 148w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/jaynaidoo-31x21.jpg 31w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/jaynaidoo-38x25.jpg 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 85vw, 275px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10055\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jay Naidoo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former Cosatu general secretary and member of the Mandela government Jay Naidoo has been released from police custody in Swaziland, says the Swaziland Solidarity Network.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Jay [Naidoo]\u00a0was arrested at a roadblock on his way to Manzini,&#8221; said spokesperson\u00a0Lucky Lukhule\u00a0on Thursday<\/p>\n<section class=\"content_body group\">\n<div id=\"body_content\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;He was briefly detained and released after questioning. He will continue to chair the panel of experts on Friday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said Naidoo was part of an &#8220;international panel of experts&#8221;, which would hear from Swazi workers about how labour rights violations affect their lives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The panel consists of Alec Muchadehama, a human rights lawyer and activist from Zimbabwe; Paul Verryn, of the Methodist Church; and Nomthetho Simelane, a former lecturer in political science at the University of Swaziland.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lukhule said Vincent Ncongwane, former secretary general of the Swaziland United Democratic was arrested on Thursday morning, and was held at the regional police headquarters in Manzini.<\/p>\n<p>He was later released and placed under house arrest. Lukhule said representatives of the International Trade Union Confederation were also questioned and followed from the airport to a hotel in Manzini.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Congress of South African Trade Unions had demanded the immediate, unconditional release of all those arrested.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Spokesperson\u00a0Patrick Craven called on the international trade union movement to launch a campaign for human rights and democracy in Swaziland. \u2013 Sapa<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Cosatu general secretary and member of the Mandela government Jay Naidoo has been released from police custody in Swaziland, says the Swaziland Solidarity Network. &#8220;Jay [Naidoo]\u00a0was arrested at a roadblock on his way to Manzini,&#8221; said spokesperson\u00a0Lucky Lukhule\u00a0on Thursday &#8220;He was briefly detained and released after questioning. He will continue to chair the panel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10054\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Former member of Mandela government detained in Swaziland&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[5875,5873,5876,5877,5874,5872],"class_list":["post-10054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-labour-rights-violations","tag-manzini","tag-methodist-church","tag-paul-verryn","tag-swazi-workers","tag-swaziland-solidarity-network"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/jaynaidoo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10056,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10054\/revisions\/10056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}