Comments and Analysis
Reed Dance evolves to great heights
On a bright sunshine-filled Spring Monday, thousands of people cascaded towards Lobamba and Ludzidzini as Eswatini hosted a spectacular edition of the Umhlanga...
Continental order for His Majesty
Could Eswatini become the African headquarters for traditional and cultural heritage? Could His Majesty King Mswati III alter the course of history by...
The price of silence
Silence is often mistaken for peace. In many of our communities, women are raised to keep quiet about the injustices they face, whether...
Malthus meant us
I remember the prediction of Thomas Malthus, the highly influential English economic and political thinker, that the food in the world would never...
Eswatini, AU: Conflict rarely respects national borders
A regional workshop on strengthening early warning and governance monitoring mechanisms in southern Africa recently took place in the kingdom of Eswatini; bringing...
Tradition as economic infrastructure
The kingdom has been abuzz with a couple of cultural events in the past couple of weeks. The nation was engaged in Butimba...
Influence of media on modern relationships
Media, in its many forms, has always shaped the way people connect, communicate and perceive love. From the early days of romance novels...
EFA should ‘blow final whistle’ on ‘Loga’
The sound of the final whistle against Cameroon officially confirmed Sihlangu’s premature exit from the 2026 International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) World...
The deliberate collapse of SA’s economy
The South African economy is in a deep and escalating crisis. This collapse is not an accident of poor governance alone, nor merely...
Clutching at straws for solutions
The title of our read today is an English phrase that I found simple, powerfully profound and, somehow, relevant in terms of mental...
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