Swaziland: Growing Seed Security

Farmer Obed Dlamini, like many of his colleagues from Swaziland, finds it difficult to find quality maize seeds each planting season. Not only are the seeds expensive but they are often not available.

Swaziland look set to upstage Ghana

Sunderland record signing Asamoah Gyan will on Sunday lead the bulk of the Black Stars of Ghana who shone so brightly at the recent World Cup to a Nations Cup qualifying tie against Swaziland.

Parade ... Swaziland's King Mswati III speaks to President Robert Mugabe during the Reed Dance at the Royal Palace on ...

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe joined Swazi King Mswati III in watching an annual parade of 100,000 bare breasted maidens on Monday – and later told reporters he wished African countries would “emulate” the famous Reed Dance.

Swaziland Sells First Government Bond, Plans Longer-Term Debt This Year

Swaziland yesterday sold its first bonds to raise money for development projects and plans further sales this year, a central bank official said.

Swaziland's $200m despot

Swaziland is a small country with a big problem. The 1.3 million inhabitants of the land-locked southern African kingdom live under the thumb of one of the world's last absolute monarchies, a venal and repressive regime whose plunder of the country is systematic and comprehensive.

Supersports’s Khumalo linked with Tottenham

Harry Redknapp Tottenham Supersport United defender Bongani Khumalo is being linked with a winter move to Tottenham . The Swaziland-born South Africa international impressed in a trial with Spurs during the summer and although Harry Redknapp did not make a move for him in the recently closed transfer window, Supersport chairman Khulu Sibiya says something may happen down the track. “Spurs will ...

Foreign maidens spice up reed dance

Times of Swaziland-Bulawayo Bureau. THE presence of foreign maidens from as far as Zimba-bwe added more colour to the already effervescent reed dance/umhlanga festival in the Kingdom of Swaziland this year.

Solidarity Actions Around Independence Day

Trade unions and other civil society groups worldwide are organising solidarity actions starting 6 September, Swaziland's independence day, to highlight the ongoing repression of workers' rights and autocratic nature of the Southern African kingdom.

Ghana Hero Asamoah Gyan: Swaziland Then Sunderland

Neither South Africa nor Sunderland need much reminding about the merits of one Asamoah Gyan. He was the World Cup’s proudest player, the man who so nearly propelled his side to the semifinals of the World Cup as Africa took its place on the global stage. Now the 24-year-old striker who featured in most World Cup XI selections gets the chance to show off his wares to the English Premier League ...

‘The hardest easy decision’

Janice Wilson recently returned from her fourth mission trip to Swaziland, a tiny country near the tip of South Africa that has the highest infection rate for the HIV virus in the entire world, estimated broadly at between 33 and 45 percent of the population. Wilson said it was a statement made by Bishop Dlamini of Kukhany’okusha Zion Church (KZC) in Manzini during her first visit in 2004 that ...