What a Hoot!
The Independent (SA) titillates with Phat's in fire as Swazi king fights 'insult':

Swaziland's King Mswati III is seething over what he considers to have been an insult to the Swazi nation by flamboyant SABC TV presenter Joe Khambule, aka Phat Joe.

Mswati has called on his subjects to "deal" with Phat Joe for mocking the way the polygamous king chooses his young wives.

"I feel that if the Swazi nation feels insulted by the manner this man ridiculed me as their king, the ball is in their court to take action against him," Mswati told journalists at a press conference at his traditional headquarters here.
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In the offending episode of the show Phat Joe Live, broadcast last Thursday, the king, impersonated by a man clad in traditional Swazi attire, was portrayed picking nubile maidens to be his wives, although he had not met them.

Phat Joe suggested that Mswati used the annual reed dance - where Swazi maidens danced topless for him - to choose his brides and that he based his selection on the girls' physical attributes.
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The Swazi parliament on Monday passed a motion calling on its Minister of Public Service and Information, Mntonzima Dlamini, to watch a tape of the show and take action against Phat Joe.
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Phat Joe is not new to controversy. He has had to apologise to Zulu king Goodwill Zwelithini after telling his viewers that he had driven past the king who was hitch-hiking after the KZN government suspended his transport.

You see, while there is a general shortage of fun (amongst other things) in Swaziland, things are different at the King's palace:

Southern Africa's last absolute monarch, King Mswati III of Swaziland, has picked an 18-year-old schoolgirl to become his 10th wife, a news report said on Sunday.

The Mbabane-based Times on Sunday reported that the 34-year-old king selected Ayanda Nolichwa Ntentesa after seeing her at an annual traditional reed dance held in southern Swaziland last Sunday.

Large numbers of young bare-breasted maidens gather at these ceremonies in the hope of attracting the king's attention.

The report said two men arrived at Ntentesa's home in Manzini in central Swaziland on Monday night to fetch her and take her to the royal palace outside Mbabane.

She went to school for the last time on Tuesday morning and is now reported to be living at the king's palace. A date for the royal wedding has not been set.

Ntentesa, like all young women in Swaziland under the age of 19, was bound by a chastity vow not to have sex for the next four years and carried woollen so-called "don't-touch-me tassles", the colour of which denotes her status. Mswati imposed the ban in September last year.

The king said he was reintroducing the traditional chastity rite to curb the spread of Aids in Swaziland, where an estimated 32,5 percent of adults are HIV-positive and 7 000 people die from the disease every year, in a population of about a million.

In June, Mswati married 18-year-old Nontsetselo Magongo at a secret royal wedding less than a week after his marriage to his longest-serving fiancee, Angel Dlamini.

Party hearty, dude!

Remind me again how many votes Swaziland gets in the United Nations?