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Our last chance to get it right
Following the 9th Southern African Customs Union (SACU) Summit held in Cape Town last week, which endorsed its move to gradually reimagine itself...
King carries our hopes on new SACU
This weekend, the economic roads for five Southern African countries, including Eswatini, lead to the Cape Town International Convention Centre, where the 9th...
We need answers on E17bn capital flight
The past week has left a E17.09 billion economic development question hanging over our heads. It urgently needs answers that make sense to...
Store ‘dvuladvula’ grain ahead of drought
The long-awaited financial relief is finally within sight for thousands of civil servants. In about six weeks, government will dish out the remaining...
Don’t waste King’s investment wins
His Majesty has returned from international visits to Azerbaijan and the United Arab Emirates with promising leads for investment and trade. He has,...
Growth cannot be eaten
There is a belief that good macroeconomic statistics automatically mean ordinary people are living better lives. They do not.Eswatini’s economy, we are told,...
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....
Eswatini delivers on global stage, but
When the Kingdom of Eswatini agreed, with less than two months’ notice, to host the OACPS–EU Summit under the new Samoa Agreement framework,...
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Chief Justice Bheki Maphalala passes on
MBABANE- Chief Justice Bheki Maphalala has died, according to reports emerging on Thursday. Maphalala is reported to have passed away while receiving treatment...
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...
E50 000 bail for couple in E2.3 million theft case
MBABANE - A former chief clerk and her husband, implicated in the alleged theft of E2.3 million from Pick Yours Supermarket in Buhleni,...
Gogo and S’lwane launch website
MBABANE — After at least half a decade in the game, Eswatini’s most enterprising stand-up comedy and content creation duo, Gogo Eswatini and...
Keep the Lilangeni at home
Within the next fortnight, bank automated teller machines (ATMs) across the country will be splashing out hundreds of millions of Emalangeni into the...
ByMartin Dlamini10 July 2026