Located on the outskirts of Swaziland’s commercial hub, the state-of-the-art Manzini Waste Treatment Centre was built to end the city’s sewage disposal problems. A World Bank…
How is a small country to compete in a global marketplace where size is rewarded? Case in point is the tiny Southern African country of Swaziland, nestled between geographic…
The plight of Aids orphans in Swaziland, currently labouring under the world’s highest HIV prevalence rate, is an issue that demands coverage. Journalists often find themselves…
While Swaziland’s soaring HIV prevalence and the spending habits of King Mswati III are issues that often land the country in the headlines, problems also loom on another front:…
A new advertising campaign aimed at curtailing teenage HIV rates by promoting abstinence is using a combination of traditional and modern values in its appeal to Swazi youth. The…
There are several reasons why women’s rights activists might welcome Swaziland’s new Constitution, intended to replace the document that was suspended by King Sobhuza in 1973.…
In May last year, teachers in Swaziland were at loggerheads with the government over the delicate matter of admitting Aids orphans to schools free of charge. With the new…
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/142915/aids_icon.gif" align=left>Read the obituaries in Swaziland, and you will discover that many people here die from unspecified…
National airports are the primary gateways to nations today. From the design of a terminal building to the swiftness of baggage retrieval, airports give visitors an all-important…
Southern Africa is responding to its Aids pandemic with new programmes that promoters say must be as adaptable as HIV itself. "Just as HIV mutates, frustrating efforts to come up…
The government of Swaziland has allocated R2-million in its budget for an anti-corruption office that does not function, but is sorely needed. "Corruption is part of any national…
A new education initiative has been started in Swaziland to assist children who have lost parents to the Aids pandemic. The government says it will start paying the tuition fees…
Economies determine the fates of nations and their people, and yet economic news remains disconnected from the masses of people who need to know developments that touch all their…
When King Mswati III dissolved Swaziland’s Parliament this month in anticipation of October elections, he sternly warned prospective candidates not to murder innocent people in…
A scheme was concocted in Swaziland to place a "correspondent", announcer Phesheya Dube, right in the heart of Iraq, without any expense, inconvenience or possible danger. In…
This year will bring payoffs for a number of simmering controversies that have drawn the world’s attention to Swaziland, sub-Saharan Africa’s last absolute monarchy. Matters…
At the end of the unprecedented legal challenge to his right to choose his brides, King Mswati secured the hand of 18-year-old Zena Mahlangu as his fiancee. As the girl’s mother…
