OPINION:Tourism and Environmental Affairs Minister Jane Mkhonta-Simelane, is this the R2million eBet bribery Parliament cabal you are talking about?.

By Zweli Martin Dlamini Tourism and Environmental Affairs Minister Jane Mkhonta-Simelane frustrated the awarding of a license to eBet for months and, the investors were on the verge of closing as their business was collapsing. Perhaps after being...

Eswatini loses about E1bn US funding in 2 years

Reading Time: 3 minutesEswatini has lost nearly E1 billion in United States (US) government funding between 2024/25, marking one of the sharpest aid contractions the country has faced in recent years. According to official data published by...

Investors urged to prioritise environmental, social impact

Oliver Mutasa, the chairman of a local environmental consultancy firm, SustiGlobal Investors must identify and anticipate potential environmental and social risks associated with their projects and plan to mitigate negative impacts for them to...

Search for missing aircraft intensifies in harsh weather near Barberton

Search and rescue (SAR) teams continue their mission through tough winds, mist and rain between the Lebombo Mountains to find a missing Cessna 206 aircraft. Lowvelder reports that a Cessna 206 that departed from King Mswati III International...

Reports of missing aircraft between Eswatini and South Africa

Reading Time: < 1 minuteNELSPRUIT – An airplane that departed from King Mswati III International Airport in Eswatini has yet to land in South Africa and contact with the aircraft has been lost. The aircraft, a Cessna 206, was due to land at Kruger...

Minister appoints new Eswatini Communications Commission (ESCCOM) Board

Minister Savannah Maziya has appointed a new ESCCOM Board led by Business Eswatini CEO Nathi Dlamini. The board will guide Eswatini’s ICT policy, boost innovation, and promote digital inclusion. Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Minister of Information,...

Eswatini Is Open for Business – Tibiyo MD

Reading Time: 2 minutesSandton – Tibiyo TakaNgwane Managing Director Dr. Absalom Themba Dlamini has reaffirmed Eswatini’s readiness to engage the global investment community, calling on international partners to join the kingdom in building...

LIFELINE FOR ESWATINI: COMESA’s crackdown on cartel-like behaviour in beer sector

COMESA cracks down on cartel-like practices in Eswatini’s beer sector! The move restores fair trade, better prices, and more consumer choice after a major investigation into Diageo’s restrictive agreements. Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Common Market...

‘Like human trafficking’: How US deported five men to Eswatini under secretive deal

WASHINGTON, Oct 11 — Roberto Mosquera’s family had no trace of him for a month after he was arrested by US immigration agents, until a government social media post revealed he had been deported to Africa’s last absolute monarchy. Immigration and...

Eswatini Prime Minister to Attend Mutharika’s Inauguration on Behalf of King Mswati III

Prime Minister Russell Mmiso Dlamini of Eswatini is set to attend the inauguration of President-elect Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika. The Prime Minister will represent His Majesty King Mswati III at the ceremony. The inauguration ceremony is...

‘Businesses are born, jobs created through recycling’

Reading Time: 2 minutesThrough the Temvelo Awards, awareness is created among people about the environmental impact of their daily lives and how their actions can either harm or heal the planet. As a result, there is a value proposition emerging...

Eswatini to explore creation of space agency

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe agreement signed between the ministry of information communication and technology and Canadian based space company, Stardust would see the Kingdom of Eswatini exploring the creation of a space agency to be housed under...

OPINION:The generation that sold out Swazis to royal supremacy.

By Wandile Dludlu. The Sobhuza take over in 1968 left him and the Swazis in general with an urgent need for state qualified bureaucrats, management, admins and educated working class fit for purpose as the urge to replace white skilled workers...

Jason Hickel: ‘As long as capital controls production, we will have perverse results’

He says that when he was a child, the front grille of the family car would be filled with bugs when he traveled through his native Eswatini, formerly Swaziland. Now, professor and economic anthropologist Jason Hickel, 42, barely sees half as many...

AU-AIP GCF Readiness Initiative Accelerates Climate-Resilient Water Investments Across 15 African Countries, Advancing Global Transformation Agenda

These achievements align directly with GWPO’s Global Transformation Agenda (GTA) launched in February, which seeks to mobilise USD 15 billion in climate-resilient water investments by 2030, including USD 500 million to be leveraged for GWP...

Travel agents explore Eswatini tourism opportunities

A group of Taiwanese travel agents has concluded an eight-day government-organized mission to Eswatini aimed at exploring the ally's tourism resources and potential for bilateral cooperation, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said yesterday. The...

Taiwan sends travel agents to Eswatini to boost local tourism, promote exchanges

Taipei, Oct. 2 (CNA)A group of Taiwanese travel agents has concluded an eight-day government-organized mission to the Kingdom of Eswatini aimed at exploring the ally's tourism resources and potential for bilateral cooperation, Taiwan's Ministry of...

OPINION:King Mswati’s extravagant spending confirming him as a greedy dictator, appealing for R43billion international donations to fight climate change while stealing taxpayers money.

By Zweli Martin Dlamini It is very disturbing to note that in this country we have a King who loots public funds while turning our country into a charity case, an act of poor leadership that grossly undermines the Sovereignty of this Kingdom....

MOFA trip aims to boost Taiwan-Eswatini tourism

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) yesterday said it is leading a familiarization trip to Eswatini, which started on Thursday last week and ends tomorrow. Department of West Asian and African Affairs Deputy Director Chen Yung-po (陳詠博) said a...

Access to information key to good governance and climate resilience: MISA

By Staff Reporter THE Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) has called upon governments in the region to fast-track the adoption of legislation furthering access to information inorder to increase citizens’ participation in governance and be...