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ESCCOM technical director earmarked for RSTP CEO
MBABANE – Eswatini Communications Commission (ESCCOM) Technical Director, Thulani Fakudze, has been earmarked for the CEO position at the Royal Science and Technology...
King licenses local firm for gold prospecting
MBABANE – His Majesty King Mswati III has authorised a local mining company to conduct a preliminary study into possible gold deposits in...
Tuesday storm leaves trail of destruction
MBABANE – The hailstorm, accompanied by strong, winds, which tore through the country on Tuesday, left an estimated 2 280 people from 380...
Man arrested for E5.2m dagga, unlicensed rifle
NHLANGANO – Dagga worth E5.2 million, along with an unlicensed rifle, have been confiscated from a 40-year-old man.The accused, Thokozani Mpandlana Tsabedze of...
Applications for new broadcasting licences opened
MBABANE — ESCCOM opens applications for new broadcasting licences.The Eswatini Communications Commission (ESCCOM) has officially opened applications for commercial and community television and...
17 bank employees defrauded E131k, stranded in Durban
MANZINI - Seventeen bank employees were left stranded in Durban after being defrauded E131 000 by a woman who had promised them a...
Over E40 000 stokvel savings vanish from lecturer’s house
MANZINI – Stokvel savings amounting to over E40 000 have vanished from the house of a lecturer in the Manzini Region.The money was...
EEC’s E247.2m operational loss amid drought, high import costs
MBABANE – The operational loss of Eswatini Electricity Company (EEC) increased by 25.2 per cent to E247.2 million.The operational costs of the utility...
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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...
