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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...

Cops must prevent crime, not sit in offices – NATCOM

MANZINI – National Commissioner of Police Manoma Vusi Masango has strongly condemned police officers who remain in their offices waiting for members of...

Employees steal ex-miners’ accounts

MBABANE – Investigations into the theft of funds belonging to former mineworkers have uncovered that employees allegedly used their positions to make unauthorised...

Lubombo SNAT branches clash over regional voting rights

MBABANE – There is a major disagreement within the Lubombo branches of the Swaziland National Association of Teachers (SNAT). The Mhlume Branch is...

No liSwati should go hungry, King declares

NGABEZWENI – His Majesty King Mswati III has called on emaSwati to work tirelessly towards achieving food security, declaring that no citizen should...

Minister appoints terrorist group member

MBABANE – Did Minister for Public Works and Transport Chief Ndlaluhlaza Ndwandwe breach the Suppression of Terrorism Act of 2008?This follows the minister’s...

SBS conversion on track, says CBE

MBABANE – The Central Bank of Eswatini says the Swaziland Building Society (SBS) conversion remains on track while intervention measures at EswatiniBank are...

PAC slams ministry’s e4m overtime claims

LOBAMBA – The Ministry of Public Service has come under intense scrutiny from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) over approximately E4 million spent...

Warning signs ignored before kids’ murder

LOMAHASHA – Long before the nation learnt of the deaths of Cedusizi (11) and Phumlile Shabangu (8), there were reportedly fears within the...

Claims of security guard earning E30k salary

LOBAMBA – Allegations that an RSTP security guard earns E30 000 and a cleaner E15 000 monthly surfaced before Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee...

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Police seize 58 illegal firearms, 509 rounds of ammunition

MBABANE – The Royal Eswatini Police Service (REPS) seized 58 illegal firearms and 509 live rounds of ammunition during the period between October...

Schools open as scheduled – PS

MBABANE –Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Education and Training, Nanikie Mnisi, has affirmed that schools will reopen as scheduled in accordance with...

Mbuso Simelane accused of attempts to divert E10m public funds

MBABANE – The Eswatini Medical Christian University (EMCU) Council has alleged that the Chairman of the committee appointed to investigate the affairs of...

Bombing suspects wanted in Botswana for E1.5m cellphone theft

MBABANE – Botswana has filed an application seeking the provisional arrest of two nationals detained in Eswatini over an alleged P1 277 989.80...

Couple in POCA-seized property charged with E2.3 m theft

MBABANE – The businessman and his wife, whose property was seized by the State through proceedings under the Prevention of Organised Crime Act...