Swazi Media Commentary

The Swaziland textile workers strike that was marred by police brutality has been suspended as employers agreed to meet union demands. Worke...

Swaziland’s only independent comment magazine may be on a collision course with King Mswati III after publishing details of his ‘obscene’ i...

Swaziland’s Nation magazine (April 2008) has revealed that Swazi King Mswati III is receiving public funds illegally. The publication of s...

Here’s news about another documentary about Swaziland that Swazis probably will never get the chance to see. This one is a lot less controve...

Doubts have been raised about whether Swaziland’s 33 oppressive media laws are still in force. There is a thought that the Swazi Constitutio...

An editor of one of Swaziland’s few independent newspapers has accused the Swazi police of killing a man after he refused to pay them a brib...

Swaziland’s Prime Minister has come out to condemn police who brutally attacked legally striking textile workers. Both daily newspapers in S...

Media houses in Swaziland need to start preparing for the national election that is due to take place later this year (2008). At the last el...

My comments that media in Swaziland are restricted by repressive laws got a swift response yesterday. I said that media commentators reckone...

I raised a few eyebrows yesterday (26 March 2008) when I suggested that being in possession of a copy of the Without The King documentary wa...

After my comments about Derek Van Dam , the US weatherman turned missionary in Swaziland I received this email from a fan (of Derek’s not mi...

The award-winning, but highly controversial, documentary that claims Swaziland is close to a state of revolution has finally reached Swazila...

Anyone who has in his or her possession a copy of the documentary Without the King is committing sedition. I can hear cries of incredulity r...

Swaziland is a ‘ticking time bomb’ as the Swazi army prepares to set up military bases across the kingdom. People will not stand for it and ...

A total of 40 workers were hospitalised after Swazi police attacked them during a legal strike. And 11 of them are so seriously injured they...

A brother of Swazi King Mswati III is suing the Times of Swaziland for alleged defamation. Prince Guduza, who is also Speaker of the House...

Swazi journalists should get out of their offices more. Because when they do they are able to come up with vivid articles about what it is r...

Congratulations to the Swazi Observer for giving so much attention to the latest report from the US government into human rights abuses in ...

A baby may have been tear-gassed to death by Swazi police. And a pregnant woman is reported to have died after being shot by police during l...

Swazi newspapers are getting praise for the open way they have been reporting the textile strike in Swaziland. Even though there are claims ...