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Beside the active Shaft 3 of Eswatini’s coal mine, 43 homesteads say blasting is splitting their walls. The blast logs, inspection records and seismic survey that could prove it are held by a Ministry that both polices the mine and owns a quarter of it — and over six weeks of requests, not one was produced.

Mine’s Regulator Is Also Its Owner: Maloma Colliery Blasting Cracks Eswatini Homes Beside the active Shaft 3 of Eswatini’s the coal mine, 43 homesteads say blasting is splitting their walls. The blast logs, inspection records and seismic survey that could prove it are held by a Ministry that both polices the mine and owns a quarter of it — and over six weeks of requests, not o...

Abandoned at the fence: how a broken colonial-era cordon dispossessed a women’s garden

Three years after Eswatini passed a law requiring the state to monitor gambling harm, conduct addiction research and establish a rehabilitation fund, the country still has no central system to track online betting activity, even as licensed platforms allow users to register without meaningful age or identity checks.

Eswatini’s online betting boom outpaces systems meant to control it By Zwelethu Dlamini Three years after Eswatini passed a law requiring the state to monitor gambling harm, conduct addiction research and establish a rehabilitation fund, the country still has no central system to track online betting activity, even as licensed platforms allow users to register witho...