Since October 2011 Salgaocar has been mining the Malolotja Nature Reserve and shipping cheap, low-grade iron ore across the world.

Orphaned by HIV/Aids-related illnesses at the ages of six and seven, Tandeka and Njabulo have looked after each other for 10 years.

Against all odds, Swaziland is producing ambitious, political and decidedly modern art from a fresh crop of young artists and savvy curators.

New galleries are shaping Swaziland’s art boom, and each has a very different explanation for the sudden rise of art in the Kingdom.

Mesuli Mamba (29) is a prison warden and collage artist — roles he says complement each other well.

A young designer is redefining what it means to be authentically Swazi.

The painter, Ray Berman, a South African struggle exile in Swaziland, has become one of the country’s best-know artists.