Inhlase

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

A donor-funded garden run by 11 women in eChibini near Lavumisa has stood idle since 2025 after repeated wildlife raids destroyed crops and made farming impossible, according to its members. The women say the animals crossed from the direction of Harloo Private Reserve in South Africa, leaving them without food, income or compensation.

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

Following Inhlase investigations revealing that damaged cordon fences, such as those near the Harloo Private Reserve, allow livestock and wildlife to spread diseases—Eswatini’s Minister of Agriculture, Mandla Tshawuka, has joined forces with South African and Mozambican counterparts to combat foot and mouth disease.

fence that isn’t: Wildlife, disease and neglect on the SA-Eswatini border
worth E1,296m hit by FMD after border E8.5m funds
by the State: Living alongside wildlife, bearing the costs

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...

Eswatini’s wildlife law protects game and punishes those who kill it, but it does not provide a statutory route for villagers to recover the value of crops and livestock lost to wildlife.

Abandoned by the State: Living alongside wildlife, bearing the costs By Vuyisile Hlatshwayo Wildlife moving from the direction of Harloo Private Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal has, residents say, repeatedly crossed into Eswatini, destroying crops and killing livestock in four communities along the southern border. The reserve’s own price list shows hunters are charged as...

When Sipho Khumalo walked through his half-hectare maize field near Mgampodo stream, he found the crop he had hoped would feed his family flattened and eaten. He and other residents along Eswatini’s southern border say bush pigs, warthogs and other wildlife crossing from nearby Harloo Private Game Reserve in South Africa have repeatedly destroyed crops and killed livestock — losses for which they say no one compensates them.

Abandoned by the State: Living alongside wildlife, bearing the costs By Vuyisile Hlatshwayo Wildlife moving from the direction of Harloo Private Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal has, residents say, repeatedly crossed into Eswatini, destroying crops and killing livestock in four communities along the southern border. The reserve’s own price list shows hunters are charged as...