updated Thu. April 11, 2024
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Nyasa Times
April 1, 2018
While the Swaziland goalkeeper was amongst the busiest customers on the field of play, his counterpart Charles Thom had an easy afternoon, making just one crucial save throughout the match. Coach for the Malawi U-20 Meke Mwase lamented the missed opportunities but was quick to point out that theÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
April 1, 2018
Swaziland's Prime Minister Barnabas Dlamini has hinted his government might try to restrict access to social media. He told Senators there was nothing police could do 'at the moment' about posts on sites such as Facebook. The Prime Minister and his government have a long history of threatening socialÃâà...
The Maravi Post
March 31, 2018
LILONGWE0-(MaraviPost)-Malawi under-20 national football team step onto the natural grass of Bingu National Stadium in Lilongwe with one mission of claiming victory when facing Swaziland in the first-leg of Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers Saturday afternoon. The Junior Flames will travel to SwazilandÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 30, 2018
A campaign has started in Swaziland called 'Don't kill us, we are human beings too' to raise awareness about people with albinism. People in Swaziland with the skin condition live in fear of their lives as some traditional healers, witchdoctors and others use their body parts in spells to bring good luck.
AllAfrica.com
March 29, 2018
The Swaziland Attorney-General's announcement that the conflict within the three arms of government in the kingdom is 'normal' and there cannot be a separation of powers between them is irrelevant because all power rests with the absolute monarch, King Mswati III. The political structure in SwazilandÃâà...
africanews
March 29, 2018
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen will visit one of the island's oldest and most reliable diplomatic allies next month, amid growing pressure from China to whittle away the number of countries with which Taiwan has formal ties. ADVERTISING. inRead invented by Teads. President Tsai is expected in theÃâà...
Times of Swaziland
March 13, 2018
We pay for the licence not because of a misplaced belief that Swazi TV is really a public broadcaster but because with the licence we will be able to watch other programmes in other TV stations that are meaningful to us and news that is not as slanted as we suffer from Swazi TV. I watch South AfricanÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 13, 2018
The Swaziland Government spent E29 million (US$2.4 million) buying a fleet of top-of-the-range BMW cars and motorbikes for the Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit in 2016 that have been left unused ever since. Member of Parliament Jan Sithole told the House of Assembly onÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 10, 2018
Swaziland's Supreme Court has reinstated an appeal from the government against a High Court ruling that parts of the Suppression of Terrorism Act and the Sedition and Subversive Activities Act are unconstitutional. It had been tabled for October 2017 but the government's representatives did not attend.
AllAfrica.com
March 5, 2018
One of the newspapers of autocratic Swaziland King Mswati III is pressing for action for the kingdom to claim large parts of South Africa, including the capital Pretoria, for the Swazi people. The Sunday Observer said (4 March 2018) 'some Swazis' believed now was the right time to reclaim land 'lost' to SouthÃâà...
Independent Online
March 5, 2018
JOHANNESBURG – Swaziland's acting auditor general, Muziwandile Dlamini, says huge sums of government money are unaccounted for. Dlamini's report for the financial year ended March 31, 2017 lists a litany of problems uncovered in the accounting records of the government with the blame pointing toÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 4, 2018
Teaching in primary schools across Swaziland is grinding to a halt and some salaries have not been paid because government has not released funds. Some schools are unable to buy food for children. The Swazi Government is refusing to release money because many children do not have personalÃâà...
eNCA
February 27, 2018
“International organisations such as the European Union and Commonwealth routinely declare that Swaziland's elections are not free and fair because parties are banned from taking part,” said Rooney. “After the last election in 2013, the Commonwealth Observer Mission and African Union separatelyÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
December 31, 1999
A schoolteacher in Swaziland is being hounded out of her job because parents think she is a lesbian and a danger to their children. It highlights the prejudice members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community in the kingdom face in their daily lives. The Swazi NewsÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
December 31, 1999
A 19-year-old woman in Swaziland was arrested by police in her hospital bed after being admitted for attempting an abortion. The case highlights the difficulties women face in the kingdom where abortion is illegal in almost all circumstances. Performing, receiving or participating in an abortion carries aÃâà...
Journalducameroun.com
December 31, 1999
Swaziland is among 40 countries that need to at least double their current rate of progress to meet the neonatal mortality target by 2030 or risk losing ten million children, a new report warns.Swaziland and the countries in question must meet the target between 2018 and 2030, according to the UNICEFÃâà...
Journalducameroun.com
December 31, 1999
Swaziland's Ministry of Education and Training over the weekend announced plans to install gadgets in schools to monitor teacher absenteeism, APA can report on Sunday.The gadgets, known as the Smart Schools System (3S), will be installed in six schools during the pilot phase, a measure which isÃâà...
eNCA
December 31, 1999
MBABANE - Samuel Magagula, Swaziland's health ministry director, has confirmed that the kingdom has recalled contaminated South African meat products from the shelves of its supermarkets. "An official announcement from the Ministry of Agriculture is expected at 2pm this afternoon," Magagula told theÃâà...
Journalducameroun.com
December 31, 1999
He said it would be directed to the fight against lung cancer which has emerged of one of the many forms of the disease that are now taking the lead in causing deaths among adults in Swaziland. The health official said evidence that cancer was now a leading cause of death was that about 60 percent of theÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
December 31, 1999
Swaziland's economy is in disarray and the kingdom continues to fail to raise enough money to pay for its spending, the national budget reveals. All government job recruiting will be frozen, Value Added Tax will go up by 1 percent to 15 percent and there is a plan to try to impose VAT on electricity tariffs forÃâà...
