Nhlanganiso Mkhonta serves as Business Editor at the Times of Eswatini. He reports on business, economics, finance, investment, entrepreneurship and public policy, producing insightful coverage and analysis of the issues driving Eswatini’s economy and the wider African business environment.
MBABANE - Eswatini has kept its interest rate unchanged at 6.75 per cent for the third consecutive time —maintaining parity with South Africa’s...
ByNhlanganiso Mkhonta23 November 2025MBABANE – The construction sector faces major reform as CIC and ESWASA partner to enforce quality compliance and gradually eliminate uncertified products from...
ByNhlanganiso Mkhonta21 November 2025MBABANE - MSMEs are rich with potential, creativity and resilience - yet their ability to scale and meaningfully contribute to economic growth remains...
ByNhlanganiso Mkhonta21 November 2025EZULWINI – Eswatini continues to take significant steps to strengthen its Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) framework, in line...
ByNhlanganiso Mkhonta20 November 2025MBABANE – Eswatini aims to increase exports to the EU by at least 5 per cent annually, diversify its export basket and penetrate...
ByNhlanganiso Mkhonta20 November 2025MBABANE – Eswatini’s flagship youth entrepreneurship platform, the Umliba Youth Entrepreneurship Conference (UYEC), returns for its third edition today. This year’s edition comes...
ByNhlanganiso Mkhonta19 November 2025MBABANE - The rapid expansion of KFC Eswatini - marked by the opening of three new outlets in recent months - has propelled...
ByNhlanganiso Mkhonta19 November 2025BIG BEND – EWADE has unveiled a comprehensive participation model outlining how farmers and private investors will jointly benefit from downstream agro-processing industries...
ByNhlanganiso Mkhonta17 November 2025MBABANE – The CBE says its next phase of digital payments development will focus on expanding person-to-government, government-to-person and merchant-level digital services to...
ByNhlanganiso Mkhonta17 November 2025MBABANE - Maloma Colliery Ltd has offered employees a cumulative nine per cent salary increase over two years, but wage negotiations have reached...
ByTimes Reporter15 July 2026MBABANE - Eswatini’s young ambassadors represented the nation with flawless charm at the ongoing Dance World finals in Ireland. Talent and Motion shared...
ByNELISWA SIBIYA14 July 2026MBABANE – The Chinese national, Jin Houyun, who is suspected of involvement in pooling over E2 billion from thousands of investors in China...
ByKwanele Dlamini16 July 2026MBABANE – Making DNA testing compulsory before issuing birth certificates could cost taxpayers about E126 million annually, enough to fund free Grade I...
BySTANLEY KHUMALO15 July 2026MBABANE – Members of the Nazareth Baptist Church in Eswatini have rallied behind His Holiness Unyazi Lwezulu Shembe after he publicly forgave Zulu...
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