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Why not declare youth unemployment national emergency?
Before I address the issue, I would like us to think aloud. I would like to express my shock at the passing of...
Students take matters into their hands
In the past few weeks, lecture halls were filled with chants of frustration and emotional grievances, which led to the hasty closure of...
Development demands discipline
To observe the latest confrontation in the House of Assembly is to see, with unusual clarity, the contradiction at the centre of Eswatini....
Phala Phala tests both South Africa, Africa
South Africa’s Constitutional Court has once again placed the continent’s democratic institutions under scrutiny following its latest ruling on President Cyril Ramaphosa and...
The Times abroad
He writer starts with a question: Does the Times of Eswatini go on sale in the USA, especially in Washington DC? Well, even...
Normalising sex education in traditional households
In many traditional households, conversations about sex are often treated as taboo. The subject is avoided, whispered about or mentioned only in the...
Economics of war, its imminent shockwaves
We often view war through a lens of human tragedy and shifting maps, but beneath the smoke and rhetoric lies a colder, more...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
Misplaced priorities
There is no doubt that traditional leaders occupy an important place in Eswatini’s social and cultural fabric. Chiefs are custodians of Swati custom,...
ByKhulile Thwala25 May 2026