[5] However, according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union database, in 2008, there were 12 women senators instead of the minimum stipulated 13,[6] and in 2013, there were only ten.

[8] Disqualifications are: being insolvent under any law without having been "rehabilitated", being of unsound mind, sentenced to death or more than six months in prison for a crime in Eswatini, a member of the country's armed forces or holding or acting in a public office without being granted a leave of absence to serve in the Senate, unqualified to be a voter, otherwise disqualified by law, found incompetent to hold public office, connected to a firm with a government contract and having not made the proper disclosures regarding the contract, or holding or acting in any office connected with the conduct of any election or the compilation or revision of any electoral register.

[8] In July 2005, a new constitution was approved by the Parliament and signed by King Mswati III.

[5] Gelane Zwane ran unopposed and was elected President of the Senate for the third consecutive time.

[10] Later in 2013, the Senate banned Members of Parliament from divorcing while in office to "avoid embarrassing the king.