Swazi Media Commentary

Swaziland’s traditional prime minister has called for a Swazi journalist to face serious punishment or even death for writing an article tha...

Sometimes when I read the newspapers in Swaziland I laugh out loud at some absurdity or other they are reporting. Then there are times when ...

A major report into the quality of political reporting in Swazi media has found many areas in need of improvement. Among the report’s main f...

The Swaziland Government refused to take part in an internationally televised programme to defend itself against accusations that Swaziland ...

Activists for democracy in Swaziland want to put freedom of information in the kingdom back on the agenda. And they are considering writing ...

The call from a UK-based NGO to allow some Swazi women and children of ‘unsound mind’ to be sterilised to stop them having babies breaks two...

The ‘feudal regime’ of Swaziland’s King Mswati III comes in for comment in a documentary film from the UK that is presently circulating in...

The documentary about inequalities of life in Swaziland, Without The King , has been causing controversy in the kingdom ever since pirated ...

A journalist in the United Kingdom has been circulating a request in Swaziland seeking help in a documentary television programme she is mak...

I wrote on 2 June 2008 that a representative of Skillshare International from the UK wrote in the Times Sunday that parents of Swazi chil...

For those who are following the debate over Skillshare International’s call for the parents of Swazi children with ‘unsound minds’ to be all...

Journalists in Swaziland should be prepared to go to jail or even to die to ensure they told the Swazi people the truth, according to a lead...

A fierce attack on the documentary Without The King has been made in one of Swaziland’s newspapers. The documentary that contrasts the lavi...

Fresh evidence of the way the media in Swaziland are censored by the king’s helpers emerged this week. When King Mswati III returned from a...

The Nation magazine is blazing a new trail for journalism in Swaziland with its recent coverage of King Mswati III. In this month’s issue (...

I wrote recently about how the courts in Swaziland handed out whippings as punishment to children. What I didn’t realise was just how often ...

I have had technical problems with this blogsite since last Wednesday (5 June 2008). I don't think there's anything sinister going o...

Swaziland’s only electricity supplier, the Swaziland Electricity Company (SEC), has banned its workers from talking to the media. The compan...

I wrote last week Thursday (29 May 2008) that Swaziland’s King Mswati III was variously known as M3, HMK and ‘dot, dot, dot’. I am since re...

I’m still waiting for a response from Skillshare about its proposal that Swazi children of ‘unsound mind’ should be sterilised to stop them ...