{"id":497,"date":"2005-09-03T19:29:01","date_gmt":"2005-09-03T23:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/09\/03\/swazi-princess-diaries-chicken-farm-ep"},"modified":"2005-09-03T19:29:01","modified_gmt":"2005-09-03T23:29:01","slug":"swazi-princess-diaries-chicken-farm-episode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/09\/03\/swazi-princess-diaries-chicken-farm-episode\/","title":{"rendered":"Swazi Princess Diaries &#8211; Chicken Farm Episode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a6888'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/prinseswazi.gif\" width=\"250\" height=\"333\" align=\"left\">MAFUTSENI-He recently made headlines when he successfully<br \/>\n        stopped the recruitment of female soldiers at Bethany claiming he had<br \/>\n        not authorized it. On Thursday evening, he once again went to extremes<br \/>\n        to show just how much power Their Majesties have bestowed upon him. <\/p>\n<p>      Unfortunately, this time he left Princess Sikhanyiso &#8211; the main figure<br \/>\n      of the Umcwasho rite &#8211; with bruises on her thigh and arm. (shown in photo<br \/>\n      at left)<\/p>\n<p>      The incident, which it set to leave heads rolling, occurred at Mfumbaneni<br \/>\n      poultry farm on the evening before over 50 000 maidens returned to Ludzidzini<br \/>\n      Royal Residence with the reed they set out to cut. <\/p>\n<p>      Princess Sikhanyiso was among the maidens that were given accommodation<br \/>\n      at Mfumbaneni poultry at Mphisi farm while the rest of the thousands of<br \/>\n      maidens were housed in tents at Mphisi cattle breeding station, situated<br \/>\n      about 500 meters away from Mfumbaneni. <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>Hell, we&#8217;d rather stay at the cattle breeding station<br \/>\n        any day than at that Mfumbani poultry farm, where we hear everything<br \/>\n        is constantly covered with chicken shit. Of course, some people prefer<br \/>\n        it<br \/>\n        that way,<br \/>\n        and the<br \/>\n        whole chicken farm drinking party\/pillow fight\/beating with a stick plot line will make a blockbuster opening episode<br \/>\n        for the &quot;Swazi Princess Diaries&quot; reality series we are in negotiations<br \/>\n        with MTV about. Since we published the idea first in our blog, they need<br \/>\n        us to sign off on the project before they can green-light it, but we<br \/>\n        are holding out for editorial control&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">from<a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.co.sz\/058.html\"> The<br \/>\n          Times of Swaziland <\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAFUTSENI-He recently made headlines when he successfully stopped the recruitment of female soldiers at Bethany claiming he had not authorized it. On Thursday evening, he once again went to extremes to show just how much power Their Majesties have bestowed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/09\/03\/swazi-princess-diaries-chicken-farm-episode\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[576],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wacky-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}