Swazi Media Commentary

The Sol Plaatje Institute for Media Leadership at Rhodes University's School of Journalism and Media Studies is offering three scholarsh...

Here’s a news report the Swazi media seem to have missed. On Friday (31 August 2007) Forbes.com reported that Swaziland King Mswati III wa...

Here’s another story the Swazi media have missed. Meanwhile, the news media in the United Kingdom have been running with it for days. A man ...

Who remembers the Swaziland Chronicle newspaper? It was published every Wednesday in the early 1960s at a time when Swaziland was still a ‘...

This year’s annual Swazi Reed Dance ( Umhlanga ) takes place this coming weekend (2-3 September 2007) and the Swazi media have gone into ove...

What is the point of television news in Swaziland? I ask this after reviewing several weeks’ worth of evening news bulletins on both of the ...

The launch of a new cellphone product last week raises ethical issues about the blurring of the lines between news and advertising. On Frida...

This is what passes for major news at the Swazi News. On Saturday (25 August 2007) the main story in the entire newspaper was about two unna...

Fresh evidence of the Swazi Parliament’s attempts to intimidate journalists and media workers emerged this week. The latest victim is Stan M...

A group of Americans have travelled half way round the world to Swaziland to paint a church, build a chicken coup and fence off some gardens...

The media in Swaziland are unprofessional and irrelevant to the people of the kingdom. Some journalists willingly work as propagandists for ...

The Times Sunday has enlisted the help of human rights organization Amnesty International in its fight to find out the truth behind the pol...

The Times Sunday has accused the police of lying about the killing of Ntokozo Ngozo, a known criminal and political activist. The police s...

Today’s Swazi Observer (20 August 207) has a special eight-page supplement on gender in the Swazi economy. It contains reports and feature ...

An unsavoury case of ‘trial by newspaper’ has been unfolding in the Swazi Observer this week. It began on Tuesday (14 August 2007) with a r...

The Swazi Royal Family is just like any other family in Swaziland. That’s the view of some of the wives of King Mswati III who are interview...

Here’s the second in the series of filmed reports from the United States, Derek Goes to Africa . A TV station called NBC25 has been followi...

Tuesday 7 August in Malaysia King Mswati III tells the world that (previously banned) political parties are allowed in Swaziland . Monday 1...

A row between a school in Mbabane and the Swazi Observer gives us an interesting insight into the accuracy of news reporting in the kingdom...

Recently I commented about how the Times Sunday denigrated women and encouraged sexual harassment in the workplace. A reader has pointed ou...