E17bn tenders: Bigger share demanded for locals
MBABANE – Business leaders and unemployed graduates have demanded greater local participation in public projects after foreign firms secured contracts worth more than...
E147 million retirement savings unremitted
MBABANE - More than E147 million deducted from workers’ salaries for retirement savings remains unremitted, exposing employees to risk and revealing deep financial...
CTA reduces expenditure by 94%
MBABANE – The Central Transport Administration (CTA) reduced its expenditure by 94 per cent. The latest Quarterly Economic Bulletin released by the Ministry...
July payout to pump millions into economy
MBABANE – The payment of the outstanding 85 per cent salary review backpay to civil servants in six weeks is expected to stimulate...
Civil servants are beautiful
Civil servants are beautiful. Not next month when the money lands. Right now! This is one of the disingenuous statements they will hear...
Growth cannot be eaten
There is a belief that good macroeconomic statistics automatically mean ordinary people are living better lives. They do not.Eswatini’s economy, we are told,...
Bus rank is where patience goes to die
If heaven is peaceful, then the opposite of heaven is any bus rank at month-end. That place is not a transport terminal. It’s...
Govt moves to cut school repetition
MBABANE – There are reforms set to be implemented within the education sector amid growing concern over high school repetition rates and declining...
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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...
DNA plan could swallow E126m of Home Affairs budget
MBABANE – Making DNA testing compulsory before issuing birth certificates could cost taxpayers about E126 million annually, enough to fund free Grade I...
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...
Maloma Colliery calls for calm as wage talks continue
MBABANE - Maloma Colliery Ltd has offered employees a cumulative nine per cent salary increase over two years, but wage negotiations have reached...
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...
The world has terrible timing
I realised this while sitting in the newsroom last week, watching one screen showing reports about tensions involving Iran and another showing analysis...
BySTANLEY KHUMALO9 June 2026