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5 unusual facts about Swaziland


Marang Centre for Mathematics and Science Education

In addition to South African undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate future science and mathematics teachers, would-be teachers and teacher educators come from Southern African Development Community (SADC) member nations such as Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi', Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, and other African countries.

Mswati

There have been three leaders of Swaziland with the name Mswati.

Ngwane V

which he was tried in court in Bremersdorp ( present day Manzini ).

Siphofaneni

Siphofaneni is a town in the Lubombo Region of central Swaziland 45 kilometres from Manzini and 20 kilometres from Big Bend, a major sugarcane-producing town on the main highway leading to Durban.

Swazi language

Swazi spoken in Swaziland (eSwatini) can be divided into four dialects corresponding to the four administrative regions of the country: Hhohho, Lubombo, Manzini, and Shiselweni.


2008 CAR Development Trophy

In the 2008 edition Botswana, Swaziland and Nigeria did not participate, due to involvement in the World Cup qualifiers.

C. kraussii

Combretum kraussii, the forest bushwillow, a tree species found in South Africa, Swaziland and Mozambique

Faurea saligna

Found from tropical Africa south to the Transvaal, Swaziland and Natal, often in large communities on sandy soil and along stream beds.

Felix Badenhorst

Felix Gerson Badenhorst (born June 12, 1989 in Hlatikulu) is a Swazi footballer (soccer) who currently plays for Manzini Wanderers.

Foreign relations of Swaziland

The United States assists Swaziland with a number of HIV/AIDS initiatives and programs implemented through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the Peace Corps, African Development Foundation, the Department of Labor, and the Department of Defense.

Henry Loch, 1st Baron Loch

The Boers were at the same time striving to frustrate Cecil Rhodes's schemes of northern expansion and planning to occupy Mashonaland, to secure control of Swaziland and Zululand and to acquire the adjacent lands up to the ocean.

Hilda Kuper

In 1934, after winning a fellowship to study in Swaziland, Kuper befriended King Sobhuza II who, together with Malinowski, helped to settle her into place at the Royal village of Lobamba, where she would pursue her research.

Hlane Royal National Park

Hlane Royal National Park is a park in Swaziland, roughly 67km northeast of Manzini along the MR3 road.

Hluthi

D1 Oils has established a 1,000 hectare model farm at Hluthi with a nursery facility capable of growing 5.8 million Jatropha plants annually for Swaziland's fledgling biofuel industry.

Kinnah Phiri

Born in Blantyre, Kinnah began playing football for local side Big Bullets F.C., and in 1982 was offered a contract by UAE club Sharjah SC He was not allowed to leave the country, but he moved to Swaziland to play for Manzini Wanderers where he would finish his playing career.

Kitso Mokaila

Mokaila studied to become an auto technician at the Swaziland College of Technology, and after graduating he joined the Botswana Defence Force in 1980.

Klein Vrystaat

However, the creation of the New Republic of Zululand in 1884, and the Klein Vrystaat in Swaziland 1886 as a miniature republic.

Lomawa Ndwandwe

Lomawa Ndwandwe was the Queen Mother of Swaziland, the wife of king Ngwane V and mother of Sobhuza II.

Lubombo Transfrontier Conservation Area

Situated in the north eastern part of Swaziland in the Lubombo Region.

Maerua cafra

Maerua cafra (DC.) Pax is a small Southern African tree belonging to Capparaceae, the caper family, occurring eastwards along the coast from Knysna, then further inland and northwards through KwaZulu-Natal and Swaziland to the Transvaal, southern Mozambique and southern Zimbabwe.

Manzini, Swaziland

It is known as "The Hub" of Swaziland and lies on the MR3 road.

Maputo River

In Swaziland, the river, there called the Great Usutu or Lusutfu, flows through the towns of Bhunya, Loyengo, Siphofaneni, and Big Bend.

Matsapha

It is well-located as it lies on Swaziland’s main east - west axis between South Africa and Mozambique and 16km from the junction of the Lavumisa road that leads to Durban and KwaZulu Natal.

Mike Gapes

Except for a spell as a VSO teacher in Swaziland in a gap year before attending university in 1972, and a few months working as an administrator at the Middlesex Hospital in 1976, he has worked entirely in full time politics either for the Labour Party or as an elected Member of Parliament.

Nathan Kirsh

Nathan Kirsh left South Africa permanently for Swaziland in 1986 after a business partnership between his company, Kirsh Industries, and Sanlam, one of South Africa’s leading financial services groups, unravelled.

Nhlangano AIDS Training Information and Counseling Center

The Nhlangano AIDS Training Information and Counseling Center (NATICC) is a faith-based, non-profit NGO that provides information, training and counseling on HIV/AIDS in Nhlangano, Swaziland.

Paul Biya

"Tyrants, the World's 20 Worst Living Dictators", by David Wallechinsky, ranked Biya with three others commonly in sub-Saharan Africa: Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea, and King Mswati of Swaziland.

Phesheya Mbongeni Dlamini

Phesheya Mbongeni Dlamini (born 1 January 1966 in Lobamba) has been the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Swaziland to the United Nations since 8 September 2005.

Pitika Ntuli

Pitika Ntuli (born 1942, Springs, Gauteng) is a South African sculptor, poet, writer, and academic who spent 32 years of his life in exile in Swaziland and the UK.

Platypleura sylvia

This cicada is found in closed bushveld that includes the tree Vitex obovata, a member of the Verbenaceae, a tree also endemic to South Africa and Swaziland, and with which it has a close and exclusive relationship.

Sally Sara

Sara wrote a chapter in the book South Africa Lesotho & Swaziland by Mary Fitzpatrick.

Sikhuphe International Airport

It is part of King Mswati III's $1bn millennium project investment initiative to enhance Swaziland's position as a tourist destination, serving as a tourism gateway to Swaziland's game parks, Victoria Falls, Maputo, the Kruger National Park and KwaZulu-Natal game reserves.

Sobhuza I

He had his first royal capital or kraal at Zombodze in the Shiselweni region, but moved it north to new Zombodze in central Swaziland.

Sobhuza II

During this period Andy Warhol boosted her renown, and that of Swaziland, by including her portrait along with those of Elizabeth II of the Commonwealth Realms, Beatrix of the Netherlands and Margrethe II of Denmark in his Reigning Queens series.

Southern African vlei rat

Inland however, its range extends north to tropical areas, nearly to the northern boundary of the Transvaal, including parts of Swaziland.

Swazi Music Radio

The studios were based in central Johannesburg and the transmitters were in Sandlane in Swaziland, just across the eastern border of South Africa, not far from the small town of Amsterdam.

Swaziland Airlink

Swaziland Airlink started operations in July 1999 with a leased Fokker F28 aircraft from RSNAC linking Matsapha Airport with Johannesburg and Dar-es-Salaam.

Swaziland Democratic Party

The Swaziland Democratic Party ( abbrev. SWADEPA ) is a political party in Swaziland led by its president Jan Sithole.

Swaziland Stock Exchange

The share market was established in July 1990 by Sibusiso Dlamini, a former World Bank executive who became Swaziland's prime minister, to enable ordinary Swazis to become stakeholders in their economy.

Tete veld aethomys

However, the current best estimate suggests that Tete veld rats are found in Swaziland and northeastern South Africa, where they are found in the North West, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal provinces, and the northern part of Free State province.

Tony Tsabedze

Tony Thulani "TT" Tsabedze (born 29 October 1984 in Mhlambanyatsi) is a Swazi football (soccer) midfielder playing as left-winger for Mbabane Swallows and Swaziland.

United States Ambassador to Swaziland

The United States immediately recognized the new nation and established an embassy in the capital Mbabane on September 6, 1968, independence day for Swaziland.

University of Botswana and Swaziland

The University of Botswana and Swaziland was the predecessor of the Universities of Botswana and Swaziland.

Vilankulo

It is home to an a new international airport, which serves daily flights to several regional destinations, including Johannesburg, Maputo, Swaziland,and elsewhere.

Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front

By this time, the ZACF also had members in Swaziland, and was running a small social centre in Motsoaledi squatter camp in Soweto.


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