SWAZILAND: Voters hoping to make a difference

MBABANE Friday, September 19, 2008 (IRIN) - Swaziland's humanitarian crises were uppermost in the minds of voters casting their ballots in the parliamentary election on 19 September. "I don't care about politics, I care about feeding my family. My candidate promised us food," said Charles Nkosi, a motorcar mechanic in the Mbekelweni constituency, north of Manzini, the country's commercial hub. At a pre-election rally in the drought-stricken Lubombo region in the east of the country, voters...