Funding freeze threatens health services as economic desperation drives more women into survival sex work in Matsapha, eSwatini’s industrial hub and home to the University of Eswatini (UNESWA). By Nokukhanya Musi – Aimienoho Just like Read More

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By Vuyisile Hlatshwayo A walk through Msunduza and Mncitsini informal settlements reveals the still essentially unchanged slum conditions exactly two decades after the completion of the residential upgrading scheme under the multimillion World Bank-funded Urban Read More

By Inhlase Reporter Part 1 Beneath the promise of eco-friendly transport investment, Pulse Glide operates a sophisticated pyramid scheme that has lured hundreds of emaSwati into investing their life savings—costing them their hard-earned money. It Read More

By Vuyisile Hlatshwayo Mbabane is eSwatini’s capital, situated on the picturesque, steep, and rocky terrain of Mdzimba Mountain. In 1992, it was declared a city, an upgrade from a town council to a city council. Read More

By Vuyisile Hlatshwayo While many indigenous businesspeople are still finding it extremely hard to recover from the apocalyptic Covid-19-induced losses, one Zambian-born business magnate, Michello Shakantu, is surprisingly snapping up businesses left, right and Read More

By Zwelethu Dlamini A toxic power struggle, marked by infighting between top officials, has hamstrung service delivery in Eswatini’s Ministry of Education and Training for the past eight months, a situation that multiple senior Read More

By Vuyisile Hlatshwayo For many emaSwati women, who jubilantly welcomed the adoption of the 2005 Constitution, guaranteeing them fundamental rights and freedoms, gender equality still disappointingly remains a holy grail in the 20-year-old constitutional dispensation. Deeply Read More

Thousands of artisanal gold miners toil in the dirt in a mine controlled by political elites By Owen Gagare Death stalks artisanal miners working in dangerous conditions at Redwing Mine in eastern Zimbabwe. The mine Read More

By Vuyisile Hlatshwayo Finding refuge from the sweltering heat under the canopy of an MTN umbrella alongside the Big Bend-Lavumisa Border Gate-bound MR8 Highway, Tfolakele Dlakubi*, a street vendor, looked longingly towards the locked World Read More