Category: African News

BY LINDELWA MYENI MBABANE – Participants from across the Southern African Development Community (SADC) have been challenged to make full use of a two-week regional training programme aimed at strengthening the integration of gender considerations into peacekeeping and security operations. Regional Peacekeeping Training Centre (RPTC) Commandant Brigadier General Jose D B Canamala urged participants attending the […]

BY SIFISO NHLABATSI MBABANE – Eswatini has been equipped with the knowledge and tools required to effectively lead the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation following its assumption of the chairship. This emerged during an induction briefing conducted by the SADC Secretariat in Mbabane on Wednesday, which brought together […]

BY SIFISO NHLABATSI MBABANE – The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Secretariat has stepped up engagement with Eswatini following the Kingdom’s assumption of the Chairship of the regional bloc’s Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation. This was highlighted on Tuesday when Director of the Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Affairs at the SADC […]

BY SIFISO NHLABATSI MBABANE – The Ezulwini Palazzo International Convention Centre (ICC) has landed yet another major continental event, with the 4th African Association of Accountants General (AAAG) Public Financial Management Convention set to take place at the facility from November 30 to December 4, 2026. According to information shared by the AAAG in its […]

BY SIFISO NHLABATSI MBABANE – Zimbabwean businessman Ambassador Enock Mangirande, whose company has proposed a US$5 billion (about E82 billion) housing investment in Eswatini, wants the Kingdom to consider linking citizenship to investments that deliver jobs and meaningful economic opportunities for emaSwati. Mangirande, the Mitrick Global Chief Executive Officer, said Eswatini could use investment incentives […]

BY KING’S OFFICE CORRESPONDENTS DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA – SADC has expressed its concern at the frequent and rapidly changing global environment which is characterised by economic uncertainty, climate-related challenges, technological transformation and shifting geopolitical realities. SADC Executive Secretary Elias Magosi said these occurrences are increasingly reminding them of why they exist as a Community and why […]

BY KING’S OFFICE CORRESPONDENTS DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA – SADC Executive Secretary Elias Magosi has praised the Southern Africa regional body’s transformation from being a mere liberation bloc to one that advances regional integration, peace, stability, sustainable development and a shared propsperity. His Majesty King Mswati III is attending the Summit and has assumed the leadership of […]

By King’s Office Correspondents DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA – A Swati student of the University of Eswatini (UNESWA), Vuyelwa Karabo Simelane, has been crowned the overall winner of the 2026 SADC Tertiary Institution Essay Competition. The announcement was made during the Official Opening Ceremony of the 46th SADC Summit of Heads of State and Government here, where […]