President Hakainde Hichilema’s plans to make Zambia a global gold-mining hub are being thwarted by two main players: illegal miners bent on exploiting the country’s gold reserves and an influential private company, MakanDay Read More

Mining in the community forest of Bamasoba situated in North-Kivu. Photo: Jonas Kiriko The United Nations called it historic: a deal that granted legal documents to local communities and enabled them to benefit Read More

By Nimrod Mabuza Even though in early 2023, government allocated a staggering E8 million of taxpayer’s money for a forensic investigation into the acquisition and distribution of medicine and drugs in public health institutions, there Read More

By Nimrod Mabuza The wage bill for public servants, which has weighed down government for many years, despite a hiring freeze in 2018, has actually ballooned to E308 million. The hiring freeze had a huge negative Read More

BY INHLASE REPORTER The taxpayer-funded budgets for the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) heads of state pale in comparison to the hefty budget totalling E1,074 billion allocated to King Mswati III of eSwatini.  South Read More

By Vuyisile Hlatshwayo Not all journalists, who made a mark in Eswatini journalism, have made it to the top 40 list of veteran journalists honoured by Eswatini Editors’ Forum (EEF) in the recent World Press Freedom Read More

By Tebogo Tshwane This story is based on a cache of leaked documents from the Eswatini Financial Intelligence Unit. The documents comprise more than 890,000 internal records from the Eswatini Financial Intelligence Unit (EFIU) obtained by Read More

By Tebogo Tshwane This story is based on a cache of leaked documents from the Eswatini Financial Intelligence Unit. The documents comprise more than 890,000 internal records from the Eswatini Financial Intelligence Unit (EFIU) obtained by Read More

As chair of the Inyatsi group, Mitchelo Shakantu has built a business empire with stakes across the Eswatini economy. But Inyatsi Construction — the jewel in the crown — has been mired in controversy By Abby May, Read More

Eswatini’s king professed to have a bold plan for a thriving economic zone. ICIJ uncovered two phantom gold refineries channeling millions of dollars to Dubai through it.  By Micah Reddy and Warren Thompson Read More