The Sive Siyinqaba National Movement is a political party in

Eswatini Eswatini, formally the Kingdom of Eswatini, also known by its former official names Swaziland and the Kingdom of Swaziland, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. It is bordered by South Africa on all sides except the northeast, where i ...

. It is led Ngomuyayona Gamedze as of 5 November 2022 as president, taking over from former Minister of Tourism Musa Nkambule and calls for a constitutional monarchy as a replacement for the absolute monarchy currently in place in Eswatini. Sive Siyinqaba National Movement also calls for a government by the people, for the people. The party's official colors blue and yellow stand for peace and wealth.

Marwick Khumalo Marwick Khumalo is the current member of the House of Assembly of Eswatini for Lobamba. He was elected as the speaker of the National Assembly in 2004, but was later removed by the parliament for improper conduct, that he apparently committed 25 y ...

, a founding member of Sive Siyinqaba, was elected as Speaker of the

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in 2004. This caused King

Mswati III Mswati III (born Makhosetive Dlamini; 19 April 1968) is the ''Ngwenyama'' (King) of Eswatini and head of the Swazi royal family. He heads an absolute monarchy, as he has veto power over all branches of government and is constitutionally immune fr ...

to indefinitely delay the opening of parliament. On 28 November 2019, Nkambule fled from his home and went into hiding to avoid arrest following his calling on Mswati III to make Eswatini a multiparty democracy. On 18 December, he was among four individuals arrested by police on charges of treason. Sive Siyinqaba has called the

tinkhundla In Eswatini, an inkhundla (; plural: tinkhundla) is an administrative subdivision smaller than a district but larger than an umphakatsi (or "chiefdom"). There are 55 tinkhundla in Eswatini: 14 in Hhohho District, 11 in Lubombo District, 16 in ...

system of government a "dismal" failure in terms of decentralization. In 2018, the youth wing of Sive Siyinqaba National Movement was launched by Letsiwe Gama, with Ronald Dlamini as the first president, Nontsikelelo Manana as the first Secretary General of the Youth Wing and Samkelo J. Dlamini as the first Chairperson of the Youth Wing of the party. Before the national celebration on Incwala of 2021, the Acting Chairperson of Sive Siyinqaba National Movement of the time, Ngomuyayona Gamedze of Siphofaneni was expelled from Kings Mswatis III's traditional regiment because of his activity in the pro democracy movement, same as most members of the party. In early 2022, members of the leadership of the party, including founder Marwick Khumalo we subjected to arson attacks at their homes which were assumed to be linked to the leadership of the Tinkhundla regime due to similar attacks on other political party leaders. In mid 2022 the chairman of the party Musa Nkambule had his home ransacked by members of the armed forces and the Royal ESwatini Police for suspicions of him having knowledge of an underground military group attacking Royal armed forces to pressure the King to political freedom. In 2021 a Sive Siyinqaba Youth Wing delegation led by Ronald Dlamini and the National Executive Committee led by Musa Nkambule revised the constitution of the party which was then made public on 5 November 2022 during a elective convention which begun the leadership of Ngomuyayona Gamedze as the first president of the party. The leader of the party previously held the position of chairman.

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