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Happy Birthday to Swaziland!

Princess Sikhanyiso Dlamini, the eldest daughter of King Mswati III of Swaziland, at a festival. *Photo from Wikipedia September 6 is Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Swaziland from the United Kingdom in 1968. The autonomy of the Swaziland nation was influenced by British and Dutch rule of southern Africa in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Finally, in 1894, a convention placed Swaziland under the South African Republic as a protectorate. In 1903, after British victory in the Anglo-Boer war, Swaziland became a British protectorate. The constitution for independent Swaziland was promulgated by Britain in November 1963 under the