A Constitutional History of the Kingdom of Eswatini (Swaziland), 1960-1982

• Main Author: Dlamini, Hlengiwe Portia (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: African Histories and Modernities
• Subjects: Africa, Sub-Saharan-History.; Law-History.; World politics.; Imperialism.; History of Sub-Saharan Africa.; Legal History.; Political History.; Imperialism and Colonialism.

Swaziland-recently renamed Eswatini-is the only nation-state in Africa with a functioning indigenous political system. Elsewhere on the continent, most departing colonial administrators were succeeded by Western-educated elites. In Swaziland, traditional Swazi leaders managed to establish an absolut...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Major Players in the Making of Swaziland's (Eswatini's) Independence Constitution
• 3. The Beginning of the Great Constitutional Debate: Agreeing to Disagree
• 4. The Imposed 1963 Constitution, the Maiden Legislative and Executive Councils and the Select Constitutional Committee
• 5. The 1967 Constitution, Internal Self-Government, and the 1968 Independence Constitution
• 6. The 1968 Westminster Constitution, the 1972 General Election, and Serious Challenges Confronting Constitutional Monarchism
• 7. From King Sobhuza II's Auto-Coup D'état to the Era of a Constitutional Vacuum and Royal Benevolent Despotism
• 8. Conclusion.