This is free advice from an expensive psychologist.
If you're an anxious person, do everything for fun. Go to a job interview for fun. Submit documents for fun. Start a blog for fun. Anxiety feeds on importance. Don't make everything a matter of life and death.
In November 1983, Ambassador Peter Helemisi Mtetwa, the 5th ambassador of Swaziland to the United States of America, presented his credentials walking barefooted, wearing Eswatini traditional regalia and carrying a ceremonial spear causing frentzy at the White House.
These dialogues sparked by the Skeem Saam episode really go to show how poor and disorganised our ideas of consent and violation are. I am writing to share an experience I had during a recent project on set, involving a violation of my personal boundaries in a scene where the character I was playing was being murdered and r*ped.
Boredom. I don’t think it’s my job as parent to keep the 6.5 year old occupied and entertained all the time. She must learn to fill in the spaces herself, and she must also learn to sit with herself. I used to feel guilty about this because she’s an only child.
14 June 1963: Mbabane stands still. 🇸🇿
The Great Strike of 1963 hits the capital as workers and NNLC leaders march for a £1 daily wage and a fairer constitution. This was more than a labor dispute; it was a definitive spark in the journey toward independence.
In 1976, the Miss World stage became a geopolitical flashpoint.
Swaziland and Mauritius recalled their contestants, Zanella Tshabalala and Anne Lise Lesur, in protest of South Africa’s “dual entry” policy—a segregated system of sending both a white and a Black representative.
1981: A year of "Food First" and "Lijaha Sisu." This 1 Lilangeni coin, issued for World Food Day, captured Eswatini’s post-independence push for agricultural self-sufficiency.
Early Physical Education: Students at St. Mark’s School, Mbabane, circa 1910s. The image shows children on a timber gymnastics frame, with the Hhohho hills visible in the background. St. Mark's was one of the first schools in Eswatini to provide formal secondary education.