LOZITHA, Swaziland (Reuters) - It was described as a divine message received in a thunderstorm, a surprise rebirth of Swaziland's traditional "Tinkhundla" political system that triggered faint hopes of reform in Africa's last absolute monarchy.
But a week before voters go to the polls in the landlocked southern African nation, King Mswati III admitted the "Monarchal Democracy" he had presented to an obedient Swazi press this month was merely a name change for foreign consumption.
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