Swazi Media Commentary

An article in the Swazi Observer on Tuesday (6 November 2007) accused advertisers of being able to decide what is and what is not published...

‘Democracy won the day’, the Times of Swaziland told us on Monday (5 November 2007) when commenting on the weekend’s local government elect...

Radio Swaziland needs to work harder to meet its own aim to inform the Swazi nation effectively and impartially for the purposes of developm...

One of the annoying things about living in Swaziland (and let’s face it there are many) is that it is not easy to get hold of films about th...

Reporters in Swaziland have very short memories. Yesterday (1 November 2007) both the Times of Swaziland and the Swazi Observer reported c...

Swaziland’s media do not contribute a great deal to the good governance of Swaziland. This is the main conclusion of my academic research pu...

There was a bumper crop of apologies for mistakes made published in the Times of Swaziland yesterday (31 October 2007) In the worst of thei...

There was a strange little news report tucked away on page ten of the Times of Swaziland yesterday (30 October 2007). It concerned a docume...

I have criticised the Swazi news media for their inability to put events into context. When yet another kombi crashes because its brakes fai...

Have the good folk at the Swazi Observer taken leave of their senses? If the adverts (see above) they have been running about crime lately...

The Times of Swaziland is fighting the kingdom’s government to find out how much it cost the taxpayer to send the Prime Minister on an all ...

Is the Times of Swaziland looking for a fight with the House of Assembly? Hot on the heels of the acquittal on contempt of Parliament charg...

Many people in Swaziland are so hungry that they have to eat weeds to survive. This is another news report you won’t have read in the Swazi ...

I often wonder whether journalists in Swaziland ever read the newspapers that they write for. They don’t seem to have any understanding of w...

In Swaziland it is almost impossible to turn on the television news or listen in to a radio bulletin without hearing some ‘news’ about King ...

Why is the Swaziland Government Press Secretary Percy Simelane in denial about the Mo Ibrahim Foundation and its recent report that Swazila...

Children get a raw deal in the Swazi Press, where in some cases the reporting of children does not uphold the rights of vulnerable children ...

A workshop held recently in Matsapha gave us some interesting insights into the abilities of Swaziland’s journalists. It also raised a quest...

I have found during the three years I have lived in Swaziland that if I want to really know what’s going on in the kingdom, I should not bot...

From time to time a report appears in the newspapers that proves beyond doubt that Swaziland is not a democracy and that the new Constitutio...