Eswatini learner tops SADC Region in IEB assessment
MBABANE – A liSwati learner has broken academic barriers after emerging as the top-performing pupil in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Region...
When roads become graveyards
No parent sends their child off to school expecting to receive a call that shatters their world. Yet, that unfathomable tragedy unfolded recently...
Copper theft drives electricity tariff hike
MBABANE - The proposed 20.67 per cent electricity tariff hike is being driven in part by escalating losses linked to copper theft and...
E21m national waste management plant nears completion
MBABANE – The E21 million national waste management plant currently under construction in Matsapha is nearing completion. This marks a major milestone in...
UEDF intercepts 35 goats from smugglers
MBABANE – The porous fence along the perimeters of Eswatini with South Africa and Mozambique, at various intervals, is a hive of criminal...
Why attend? Tariff hike will happen anyway – residents
NHLANGANO – Poor attendance marked the electricity tariff consultation held at Bethesda Church in Nhlangano, with residents attributing the low turnout to public...
Rains disrupt interstate transport
MBABANE – Weeks of relentless torrential rains across Southern Africa have severely disrupted interstate transport, forcing operators to abandon key routes and rely...
When giants wrestle, small nations must think
As global attention fixates on the growing tension between the United States, Russia and China -and the renewed strategic interest in places like...
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Swazipharm blames ministry delays, commits to compliance
LOBAMBA – After being implicated in the delivery of medical drugs that were later recalled, prominent pharmaceutical supplier Swazipharm has reaffirmed its commitment...
Family sues EEC over E6m for Mpolonjeni child electrocution
MBABANE - The Eswatini Electricity Company (EEC) is facing lawsuit of more than E6 million following an electrocution incident that allegedly claimed the...
Shembe forgives Zulu King after video fallout
MBABANE – Members of the Nazareth Baptist Church in Eswatini have rallied behind His Holiness Unyazi Lwezulu Shembe after he publicly forgave Zulu...
Labour minister calls for healthy wages
MBABANE – The Minister for Labour and Social Security, Phila Buthelezi, has called upon Wages Councils to negotiate for fair wages. The minister...
Six pupils earn once-in-a-lifetime US exchange opportunity
MBABANE- Six different Mbabane high schools pupils have earned a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to represent Eswatini in the United States, after emerging as top...
At the mine’s mouth, the cost of gold
It is just before dawn when the police move in. Boots crunch against loose gravel, torches slice through the dark and somewhere underground,...
ByKhulile Thwala2 February 2026