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My First Blog Post
Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.
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Why We Need a Working-Class Media — Discover
Journalists frequently write about the working class, but is anyone writing for them? Because “[e]conomic hardship does not mean the absence of joy, love, pleasure, duty, care,” and stories — and representation! — are powerful. via Why We Need a Working-Class Media — Discover
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Melusi speaks on colonial laws
Gay rights activist Melusi Simelane wants to draw attention to the country’s colonial-era law against sodomy. When LGBT+ people took to the streets last year for the first ever Pride march in eSwatini, some hardly believed they could celebrate the event in a country where stigma is rife and gay sex remains illegal. Now gay…
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Hloba eSwatini Clean up campaign
The Matsapha Town Board with other stakegolder initiated the hloba eswatini campaign to raise awareness on environmental sustainability. The clean-up campaign was from IDM to Ndlunganye where refuse was collected and packed in refuse bags and transported by a tractor provided by Matsapha Town Board. After the clean-up there were presentations held at Matsapha Town…
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Awareness talk
The University of eSwatini, green team society participated in an awareness raising presentations not only about the earth hour but also the importance of saving water and electricity. The exercise was held in schools such as Zombodze High School, Nazarene High School and Malkerns Valley Primary School on different days. Awareness was raised under this…
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Rise Against Hunger donates rice-meals to 700 people
Manzini- Close to 700 people taking part in Salesian-run Manzini Youth Care programs, located in the city of Manzini in Swaziland, have better nutrition thanks to an ongoing partnership between Salesian Missions and Rise Against Hunger, an international relief organization that provides food and life-saving aid to the world’s most vulnerable. The rice-meals were provided…
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IMPROPER DUMPING SITES AWERENESS
Kwaluseni- The Matsapha Town Board, University of eSwatini (UNESWA) societies and the Kwaluseni constituency, initiated an activity of not only cleaning improper dumping site at Mbikwakhe area but also challenging the members of the community to practise proper and safe dumping. The river bank and the river itself was used as a dumping site. The…
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COMPANIES KEEPING ESWATINI CLEAN
MBABANE – The different companies in Eswatini organized a mass garbage pick-up, collecting more than 30 bags full of trash yesterday. This was done as a response to a campaign launch by Prime Minister Ambrose Dlamini on July 11, 2019, to keep Eswatini clean at all times. Yesterday morning, equipped with recycled refuse bags and…
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UNESWA STUDENTS’ CRY FOR HELP
This is a plea made by some University of Eswatini (UNESWA) students who are living off-campus and renting one-room flats close to the institution. The landlord is a former lecturer whom they allege threatened to throw them out once they complained of the living conditions. About 78 students are renting the one-room flats owned by…
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New measures to counter environmental degradation
MBABANE – Swazi authorities face a tough challenge as the government steps up efforts to arrest environmental degradation. The recently appointed director of the Eswatini Environmental Authority (EEA), said much of the damage could be reversed if environmental policing were decentralized, and efforts to raise ecological awareness among local communities were increased. “Environment involves everybody;…
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MOTHER STRANGLES, KILLS, DUMPS NEWBORN
MANZINI – Yet another woman will face the wrath of the law after being arrested for allegedly strangulating to death her day-old baby in front of her other children. She is suspected to have kept the corpse of the infant in the house for 24 hours prior to disposing it in a pit latrine.Information gathered…