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A former prime minister fired by SMS
We have reported before on companies in the UK, Australia and South Korea firing hundreds or thousands of employees by text messaging, but sacking a prime minister by SMS is a first! South Africa's Independent Online reports that Swaziland's King Mswati fired former prime minister Sibusiso Dlamini last year via a text message on his cellphone. "Attorney General Phesheya Dlamini, reportedly acting on instructions from the king, sent Dlamini an SMS message in September informing him he was being replaced as part of a wider government shake-up ahead of parliamentary elections. Political analysts said many royal loyalists were shocked by the abrupt method used to dump the long-time prime minister, who had been a strong supporter of Mswati in his role as sub-Saharan Africa's last absolute monarch. "If a loyalist Sibusiso could be kicked out so rudely, it says a lot about palace attitudes towards those who serve them," one Mbabane attorney said. It was not clear whether the king had sanctioned the method of firing by cellphone message".
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