{"id":30984,"date":"2026-04-07T12:29:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T10:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=30984"},"modified":"2026-04-07T12:29:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T10:29:15","slug":"king-mswati-reject-same-sex-relationships-marriage-in-eswatini","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/king-mswati-reject-same-sex-relationships-marriage-in-eswatini\/","title":{"rendered":"King Mswati reject same-sex relationships, marriage in eSwatini\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">Over the Easter Weekend, King Mswati III during his Good Friday Speech, states that eSwatini will not embrace same-sex relationships and marriage.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Mswati described the relationship as the &#8220;spirit of Sodom and Gomorrah.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">There are also, reports that the country&#8217;s Minister of Education Owen Nxumalo warned pupils engaging in same-sex relationships that they risk expulsion from school.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The Eswatini Sexual and Gender Minorities has condemned anti-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, and Queer remarks made during Easter services by the King.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The Kingdom of eSwatini does not have laws that clearly prohibit same-sex relationships, apart from unofficial pronouncements from authorities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Channel Africa&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":30985,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-30984","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"King Mswati\u00a0III says eSwatini will not embrace\u00a0same-sex relationships, marriage","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30986,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30984\/revisions\/30986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=30984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}