BY ZWELETHU DLAMINI                                    Imagine, you have over E700 000 sitting at a bank and you cannot access it. In the meantime, you and your children struggle to put food on the table. This may sound like tale from another planet but for Ncamsile Dlamini of eKutsimleni in the Manzini region, this is the hellish life […]Read More

Princess Sikhanyiso, the American educated daughter of King Mswati III, once said she had dreamt of a revolution eSwatini. In an interview with the makers of a documentary on eSwatini, the then 19-year-old princess gave a candid account of life here and her fears for the future. The Nation published the princess’s account at the […]Read More

There is much for King Mswati to learn from kings and rulers who have experienced worse than what he saw at the end of June when rioters looted shops and burnt down businesses in a call for political reforms. There is a lot that the monarchy has done to rile emaSwati. At least they haven’t […]Read More

…May surrender on Monday or Tuesday yet to arrange with police BY ZWELETHU DLAMINI Siphofaneni Member of Parliament Mduduzi ‘Gawuzela’ Simelane has come out to state that he is not a fugitive of justice as portrayed by the police.  Simelane was speaking to nearly 10 000 facebook users yesterday night through Swaziland News’ page and by […]Read More

By Nimrod Mabuza At the height of calls for wholesale political changes by many emaSwati and by pro-democracy campaigners, King Mswati III missed an opportunity to address, once and for all, the issues at the heart of the recent violence. Instead of giving hope, he brought despair and planted doubts in the minds of many […]Read More

By Vuyisile Hlatshwayo. The Ngololweni community in southern eSwatini is still reeling from a drought over half a decade ago, which decimated farming, the main income generator, in the area. But the crisis here is not just about a loss of livelihood, it is a microcosm of a much bigger catastrophe facing the 1.2 million […]Read More

By Vuyisile Hlatshwayo                                                                                     King Mswati III has appointed Cleopas Sipho Dlamini as new Prime Minister of the Kingdom of eSwatini Read More

BY ZWELETHU DLAMINI The Eswatini multi-stakeholder forum comprising over 20 organizations and unions in a meeting held on Sunday at Tums Water World passed a vote of no confidence on King Mswati III and tinkhundla system of governance following his sibaya’ speech. They said the sibaya was nothing but a ploy to mislead the SADC […]Read More

By Zwelethu Dlamini King Mswati III accused the pro-democracy protesters of breaching the Eswatini Constitution in seeking to change the laws outside Parliament or Sibaya during the Sibaya meeting held. yesterday. He said according to the constitution there were two places where the country’s laws were enacted and repealed, which were the People’s Parliament (Sibaya) […]Read More