President Cyril Ramaphosa, as chairperson of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation, issued a statement on October 23, appealing for calm because “King Mswati III has accepted the need for [a] national dialogue”.
Mere minutes before the statement, the Eswatini government announced in a press conference that the king had decided a national dialogue would be held “through sibaya” and only “after the incwala ceremony”, which is scheduled for late December and usually ends in January.
