A pro-democracy campaigner refuses to allow the state to break him, reports Peter Kenworthy.
Maxwell Dlamini finally walked free in July. He was released on bail having spent 14 months in squalid conditions in the prisons of Swaziland’s absolute monarch, King Mswati III. His crime? He sang a pro-democracy song.
‘Jail is a lonely place, and there are moments when you feel down,’ says Maxwell. ‘But at all times I was motivated by the fact that our cause is just. I refuse to abdicate my responsibility or allow the state to break me.’
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