Swaziland public servants talk of working three-day week as wages dispute...
Public servants in Swaziland / eSwatini are threatening to work only three days a week in the latest move in a two-year-old pay dispute.They want a 14.4 percent cost of living increase but the...
View ArticleWorld Food program falls short in fundraising as hunger grips Swaziland and...
The World Food Program has fallen more than US$9 million short in its fundraising to help ease the hunger crisis gripping Swaziland / eSwatini.That amounts to only 47 percent of the US$17.4 million it...
View ArticleSwaziland’s US Ambassador renews call to scrap decree that keeps king...
Lisa Peterson, United States Ambassador to Swaziland / eSwatini, has renewed her call for the Royal Decree that keeps King Mswati III in power as an absolute monarch to be scrapped.She said that...
View ArticleOne in five of Swaziland’s rural population need urgent humanitarian...
More than 200,000 people in Swaziland / eSwatini which is one in five of the rural population are experiencing severe food shortages and require urgent humanitarian assistance, a report published on...
View ArticleNew ‘shoot-to-kill’ fear as Swaziland police gun down three suspects as they...
Police in Swaziland / eSwatini have been criticised for shooting dead three men after setting fire to the building they were in in what appears to be another case of ‘shoot-to-kill’. The three men were...
View ArticleFood collection points set up in Swaziland as hospital patients unfed after...
Collection points have been set up across Mbabane, the Swaziland / eSwatini capital, to collect donations to feed hospital patients left hungry after the government failed to pay food suppliers.It is...
View ArticleSwaziland police deny they shot woman with a stray bullet at music concert
A nineteen-year-old woman was shot and hospitalised after Swaziland riot police opened fired during a disturbance at a music concert.The bullet lodged close to her heart and she had to be transferred...
View ArticleSwaziland cancer patients refused treatment because Govt. has not paid...
Seriously ill people, including cancer patients, in Swaziland / eSwatini are being denied life-saving treatment because the government had not paid its bills to hospitals.At least E66 million (US$4.6...
View ArticlePolice in Swaziland walk to crime scenes because Govt. can’t afford to buy cars
Some police officers in Swaziland / eSwatini are forced to walk to crime scenes because the government has not paid for cars.A police spokesperson said the shortage of cars and other equipment was...
View ArticleSwaziland public services in meltdown and corruption goes unchecked: new...
Public services throughout Swaziland / eSwatini are close to meltdown as the government, handpicked by absolute monarch King Mswati III, fails to get a grip on the economy. Health services have been...
View ArticleNearly one in four in Swaziland believe Prime Minister is corrupt,...
Nearly one in four people (24 percent) surveyed in Swaziland / eSwatini believe their Prime Minister is corrupt, according to a report from Transparency International.Nearly one in three (32 percent)...
View ArticleSchools crisis in Swaziland as broke Govt. stops recruiting teachers
More than six in ten schools in Swaziland / eSwatini do not have enough teachers because of government financial cutbacks, the Eswatini Principals Association (EPA) President Welcome Mhlanga...
View ArticleSwaziland police fire live ammunition as children protest about witchcraft at...
Police in Swaziland / eSwatini fired live ammunition as school pupils protested against a staff member they accused of using witchcraft. They also used water cannon and fired stun grenades and rubber...
View ArticleSwaziland children forced to work as groundsmen as Govt delays funding their...
Pupils in Swaziland / eSwatini are being forced to work as groundsmen at their primary school because the government has not paid grants it owes.The children at Vulamehlo pick up paper, cut grass and...
View ArticleHuman Rights Watch adds to criticism of Swaziland’s freedom abuses
Another human rights group has criticised the Swaziland / eSwatini state for restricting freedom of association and assembly. Swaziland is ruled by King Mswati III as an absolute monarch.Human Rights...
View ArticleSwaziland schools run out supplies, exams threatened, as govt financial...
The writing of examinations across Swaziland / eSwatini is under threat because the government has not handed over grants to schools and they cannot pay for simple supplies such as paper. Electricity...
View ArticleSchools across Swaziland in chaos as failing Govt runs out of cash
Swaziland / eSwatini Minister of Education and Training Lady Howard-Mabuza met school principals as education in the kingdom crumbles through lack of funding.The Swazi Government has not paid schools...
View ArticleSwaziland Constitutional Court to rule on marriage law that gives husband...
The High Court in Swaziland / eSwatini has been asked to rulethat the Marriage Act is unconstitutional because it discriminates against women.The Act allows that if the marriage is under civil law a...
View ArticleSwaziland MP calls for action against women wearing ‘skimpy clothes’ to church
A member of parliament in Swaziland / eSwatini called on the Ministry of Home Affairs to speak out against women who wear ‘skimpy clothes’ to church. He said they sometimes disturbed pastors when they...
View ArticleNurses angry as Swaziland Govt ignores health crisis
Nurses in Swaziland / eSwatini are angry that the government has ignored their petition calling for urgent action to fix the kingdom’s broke health system.One of their leaders, Swaziland Nurses...
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