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Pro Vice Chancellor (Academic)
The University of Eswatini invites applications for the role of Pro Vice Chancellor (Academic) to lead academic transformation, research, and curriculum renewal during a pivotal…
Taxi boss Msibi, Motsumi, KT Molefe and Sergeant Nkosi plotted to sell phone-grabbers to eSwatini
Evidence leader Matthew Chaskalson detailed WhatsApp exchanges involving taxi boss Jotham “King Mswazi” Msibi and Sergeant Fannie Nkosi in which they discussed an alleged plan to…
Cheetahs reintroduced to Eswatini
Four cheetahs have been successfully reintroduced to Eswatini after a 35-year absence, marking a pivotal moment for conservation in the kingdom. Released into Royal Jozini…
Eswatini’s oil reserve gamble
Eswatini has signed a $300 million agreement with Taiwan to build a massive strategic oil reserve but the project is raising difficult questions in a country battling deepening…
Where are the unions and the ANC for suffering silicosis victims?
Recently, a proposed amendment announced by the Tshiamiso Trust — set up to disburse compensation — now threatens to shut out even more former mine-workers with the disease from…
ANC and SACP – Political Merry-Go-Round
The Communists don’t feature as a force of any kind in opinion polls and when it has tried its luck in local by-elections it has been routed, at times struggling to get even a…
Freedom in South Africa is incomplete until all SADC nations achieve genuine democracy
If we are to honour our freedom, we must also stand in sympathy with our neighbours, whose struggles remind us that democracy is never guaranteed. Their pain must be felt as our…
Mswati’s word as law fuels repression in Eswatini
The call for freedom of expression, including LGBTIQ+ rights, is a fundamental human right vital for safety and dignity
Mosiuoa “Terror” Lekota, the family man
Like many of our struggle heroes, the many years he spent serving prison terms denied him a stable family life. This left his wife Cynthia, to raise their children largely alone…
Supporting adolescent girls advances us all this International Women’s Day
One in every five girls across sub-Saharan Africa has experienced rape or sexual assault before turning 18
Decriminalization – a prerequisite to ending Aids and TB
The same structural failures that sustain the HIV epidemic also sustain tuberculosis
People living with HIV in fear as impact of donor funding cuts begin to show in eSwatini
HIV prevention services have been heavily affected by the pause on the US President’s Emergency Plan for Aids in the country, with remote mobile clinics that served hard-to-reach…
Diary: Scorpion kings live at Loftus Stadium, Ofentse Sebula to tour Johannesburg and eSwatini and Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude showcases at JAG
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‘Travel has been my classroom’
From eSwatini to Johannesburg, poets are finding new voices through travel, collaboration and the transformative power of cultural exchange
eSwatini’s 20 years of constitutionalism characterised by a crackdown on freedom of expression
The country’s revival of the Sedition and Subversion Act is a revival of a colonial law that stifles human rights.