Inhlase Centre for Investigative Journalism is the Kingdom of Eswatini’s non-profit and non-partisan media organization registered with the Eswatini Registrar

Kingdom of eSwatini
Joined January 2022
Finished codeine syrups fall outside the UN drug watchdog’s international reporting. The Health Ministry does not reconcile what it authorises for import with what actually arrives. Customs data does not identify medicines by active ingredient. inhlase.com/how-much-codeine…
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The Director of Health Services says inspections have found pharmacies that should be closed, medicines dispensed by people who are not pharmacists, and ‘highly scheduled’ drugs on open display. inhlase.com/our-regulator-ha…
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After the Health Ministry admitted that young people were abusing codeine cough syrup, an Inhlase reporter bought 13 bottles over the counter. One long-term user describes the dependence that began at high school in 2010 — and has not ended. inhlase.com/13-bottles-four-…
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The Director of Health Services says inspections have found pharmacies that should be closed, medicines dispensed by people who are not pharmacists, and ‘highly scheduled’ drugs on open display. inhlase.com/our-regulator-ha…
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After the Health Ministry admitted that young people were abusing codeine cough syrup, an Inhlase reporter bought 13 bottles over the counter. One long-term user describes the dependence that began at high school in 2010 — and has not ended. inhlase.com/13-bottles-four-…
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Sifiso Maseko says the overwhelming royal gesture felt like a wild dream come true. He had previously held the widely heldperception that there existed a discriminatory relationship between the monarch and people with disabilities. inhlase.com/king-bows-to-tru…
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Sifiso Maseko says the overwhelming royal gesture felt like a wild dream come true. He had previously held the widely heldperception that there existed a discriminatory relationship between the monarch and people with disabilities. inhlase.com/king-bows-to-tru…
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Nearly six years after the Industrial Court of Appeal ruled in his favour, Aaron Mkhatshwa is still owed most of his E207,195 award — by his own lawyer. His case exposes a self-regulation system in which serious sanctions are rare. inhlase.com/when-justice-bec…
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US$5.1m. Up to 160 deportees. One five-page agreement. The US agreed to fund Eswatini's migration capacity. Eswatini agreed to receive people deported from America who weren't its citizens. makanday.org/part-two-the-de…
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Nearly six years after the Industrial Court of Appeal ruled in his favour, Aaron Mkhatshwa is still owed most of his E207,195 award — by his own lawyer. His case exposes a self-regulation system in which serious sanctions are rare. inhlase.com/when-justice-bec…
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Nearly six years after the Industrial Court of Appeal ruled in his favour, Aaron Mkhatshwa is still owed most of his E207,195 award — by his own lawyer. His case exposes a self-regulation system in which serious sanctions are rare. inhlase.com/when-justice-bec…
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The agreement promised legal accommodation. The men ended up in a maximum-security prison. More than a year later, the legal chain governing their confinement and release remains unclear. inhlase.com/part-three-who-h…
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The men sent to Eswatini did not arrive by accident. Their transfer was the product of an agreement negotiated between the governments of the United States and Eswatini in the first months of Donald Trump’s second administration. inhlase.com/part-two-the-dea…
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They left the United States expecting deportation. Instead, they were flown thousands of kilometres to a country they had never known — and taken to a maximum-security prison. inhlase.com/the-men-who-were…
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For deaf patients in Eswatini, the struggle to communicate can begin at the hospital door — and follow them through diagnosis, consent, treatment and recovery. inhlase.com/deaf-patients-le…
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Eswatini’s Ministry of Health says it has no sign language interpreters in any of its health facilities. An @Inhlase1 investigation documented medication errors, misunderstood instructions and care given without clear communication or consent. twp.ai/4hvf5F
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For deaf patients in Eswatini, the struggle to communicate can begin at the hospital door — and follow them through diagnosis, consent, treatment and recovery. inhlase.com/deaf-patients-le…
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Siphofaneni is functioning as a town without a town’s government. Fifteen years after the constitutional deadline for countrywide local government lapsed, the rural commercial hub is drowning in waste. inhlase.com/a-constitutional…
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Luve functions as a town-like trading hub without a town’s services: no public toilet, no piped water, no waste collection. A World Bank-funded toilet stands derelict — and the constitutional deadline that would have fixed this expired 15 years ago. inhlase.com/no-toilet-no-wat…
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Eswatini is chasing two million visitors by 2027. In Mpaka, a trading hub on the corridor to its game parks and the Mozambican border, the garbage goes uncollected, the law goes unenforced — and the tourism authority will not answer questions. inhlase.com/the-king-wants-e…
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