BY INHLASE REPORTER The minister overseeing Eswatini’s national planning has acknowledged that he violated procurement law and defied a parliamentary order in an effort to push through a luxury housing project worth more than Read More

Zimbabwe Correspondent State surveillance, arrests and detentions have created a climate of fear in newsrooms, and a new law will bring investigative journalism under direct state control. The effect is chilling: editors are self-censoring to Read More

Mlungisi Makhanya, the president of the banned political party in Eswatini, PUDEMO, survived four assassination attempts but none comes close to the one he survived a couple of months ago. “If it was a football Read More

Sechaba Mokhethi and Mamello Mochesane In Lesotho’s remote highlands, 46 villagers are preparing a legal fight to stop a diamond prospecting project that could cost them their land, livelihoods and way of life. But, considering Read More

“There is a new mining order that is coming. Embrace it, but what is illegal, do not tolerate it,” says minister By Charles Mafa and Beverly Subeti The copper-ore-rich pits of Sensele Mine are routinely Read More

By Vuyisile Hlatshwayo Hundreds of eSwatini consumers have been kept in the dark by the Central Bank of Eswatini (CBE) about the damning SNG Grant Thornton (SA) investigation report into mortgage malpractice, citing banking confidentiality Read More

By Nokukhanya Musi and Tom Quinn In the once-bustling town of Bulembu in Eswatini, a small landlocked country in southern Africa, the shadow of the asbestos mining industry looms large. The mine closed in 2001, yet Read More

Lesotho soldiers believe disability payouts were calculated from the wrong base figure, and justice remains out of reach. By Billy Ntaote Twenty Lesotho Defence Force soldiers injured during a 2021 deployment to Mozambique are still waiting Read More

By Charles Mafa and Beverly Subeti Drawn by the promise of quick money, young men, many still in their teens, risk their lives as illegal miners in Zambia’s dangerous copper mines. Politically connected people Read More

By Zwelethu Dlamini On June 27, 2025, Inhlase revealed how the Eswatini government is grappling with a decade-long accounting scandal involving E6.5 billion (E6,543,027,330.40) in unresolved discrepancies and misstatements. The investigation revealed a pervasive culture of financial Read More