PM SHARE DIVIDENDS UNDER SCRUTINY
Swaziland’s Prime Minister Barnabas Dlamini stands to be paid E150,000 (US$13,000) from a company that has shares in controversial cell phone company MTN Swaziland.Dlamini in his recently-published...
View ArticleSWAZI STUDENT LEADERS SUSPENDED
Student leaders at the University of Swaziland (UNISWA) have been suspended without specific charges being laid following a class boycott over unpaid allowances.A total of 25 students have been...
View ArticlePRIMARY SCHOOLS GRINDING TO A HALT
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...
View Article‘CABINET DEFIES KING OVER BUDGET’
A newspaper in Swaziland in effect owned by autocratic monarch King Mswati III has accused the government of defying the King’s orders over the kingdom’s national budget.The Observer on Saturday (part...
View ArticleUS$632 MILLION ERROR IN GOVT ACCOUNTS
The Swaziland Government’s bank accounts are in such a mess that balances have been miscalculated by more than E7.5 billion (US$632.1 million), a newspaper has reported.The Times Sunday, an independent...
View ArticleKING WANTS LAND BACK FROM S. AFRICA
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...
View ArticleBUILDING HOTEL A BUDGET PRIORITY
The Swaziland Government is to spend E1.5bn (US$125m) this year building a conference centre and five-star hotel to host the African Union summit in 2020 that will last eight days.This is more than the...
View ArticleSWAZI BUDGET GIVES PM NEW HOUSE
Swaziland is budgeting to build the Prime Minister Barnabas Dlamini a retirement house for E5.5m even though members of parliament rejected the move last year.The MPs said last year the kingdom was too...
View ArticleHOSTILE REACTION TO VAT INCREASE
The announcement by Swaziland Finance Minister Martin Dlamini that Value Added Tax is to rise by 1 percent to 15 percent to put it in line with neighbour and major trading partner South Africa has been...
View ArticleMPS SEND BUDGET BACK FOR REVIEW
Members of Parliament in Swaziland have sent the national budget back to be reviewed because they say it does not meet the needs of poor people and rural communities.The budget announced on Thursday (1...
View ArticleUNPAID BILLS SO GOVT LIGHTS CUT OFF
Law courts, police stations, libraries, media houses, border posts among others in Swaziland were disconnected of electricity because the government has not paid its bills.It is estimated that it owes...
View ArticlePOLICE FIRE NINE LIVE SHOTS AT BAR
Two police officers in Swaziland fired nine live bullets at a bar that was open after hours.It is one of many incidents of police firing around civilians who have committed no crime.It happened at...
View ArticleSWAZI BUDGET A TALE OF WOES
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...
View ArticleSWAZI POLITICIANS’ PAY TO BE REVIEWED
In Swaziland seven in ten of the estimated 1.1 million population have incomes of less than E8,760 per year. In contrast the Prime Minister who is not elected by the people has a salary more than nine...
View ArticleELECTRICITY VAT RISE SHELVED FOR NOW
Members of the House of Assembly in Swaziland have voted against putting a 15 percent Value Added Tax on electricity prices.It happened during a debate on the national budget on Wednesday (7 March...
View ArticleTERROR ACT APPEAL BACK TO COURT
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...
View ArticleGOVT MINISTRIES IN FINANCIAL MESS
The annual report from Swaziland’s Auditor General has revealed widespread financial incompetence across many government ministries.Financial accounts are incomplete, billions of emalangeni are...
View ArticleMILLIONS ‘WASTED’ ON LUXURY VEHICLES
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...
View ArticleKING’S SECOND PRIVATE JET SET TO ARRIVE
King Mswati III the autocratic monarch of impoverished Swaziland is to take delivery of a second private jet in time for his 50th birthday in April, it has been officially confirmed.Chief Mgwagwa...
View Article50/50 CELEBRATION CASH DRIVE STARTS
A drive to raise cash to pay for the 50/50 celebrations to mark the anniversary Swaziland’s independence from Great Britain and the autocratic King Mswati III’s birthday is underway in the...
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