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Eswatini financial system remains vulnerable – EFIC

MBABANE – Eswatini’s financial system will remain at risk of criminal infiltration unless the country’s audit profession intensifies its vigilance in detecting fraud...

3.05% CoLA for striking UNESWA staff

MANZINI - The University of Eswatini (UNESWA) workers will smile all the way to the bank in December as they will get bumper...

Clampdown on informal daycare centres

MBABANE – Government is clamping down on informal daycare centres, following a surge in abuse, the spread of contagious diseases and deaths.A daycare...

Govt sets tight budget ceilings as ministries prepare for budget

MBABANE - Government has set strict budget ceilings for all ministries and departments in the upcoming 2026/27 national budget.This signals a year of...

Info leak: Financial intelligence manager arrested

MBABABE - An EFIC manager analyst has been arrested for allegedly disclosing confidential information to certain persons/ entities.Gcinekile Mavimbela was charged under the...

Estate directive: Widows, orphans suffer pay delays

MBABANE – The directive ordering the closure of all estate late accounts and the transfer of deceased persons’ monies to the Guardian’s Fund...

Sands, wife involved in car accident

MBABANE - Award-winning artist, Sandziso ‘Sands’ Matsebula and his wife, were involved in a car accident at Forbes Reef corner.The accident reportedly occurred...

Eswatini flagged in tax transparency shortcoming

Eswatini has been flagged as a country that needs to improve its legal framework to better align with global standards on tax transparency...

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Bugwadla, infidelity won’t get you to hell – pastor

LOBAMBA – For many preachers, there is only one place for people who engage in bugwadla (habitual sexual misconduct) and kuphinga – hell....

Cop launch investigation after ‘priest’ tied up, robbed

HLUThI - Police have launched an investigation following an armed robbery at Our Lady of Sorrows Mission, where a 50-year-old priest was bound...

E2bn Chinese fraud suspect fears death penalty

MBABANE – The Chinese national, Jin Houyun, who is suspected of involvement in pooling over E2 billion from thousands of investors in China...

Board orders Mfabantfu church reopening

MANZINI – The Apostolic Faith Church International Board has resolved that the Mfabantfu branch will resume church services in a month’s time. This...

ICC projected to generate E50 million annually

MBABANE – Barely three months after it was commissioned by His Majesty King Mswati III, the Ezulwini Palazzo International Convention Centre (ICC) is...