How international gold dealers exploited a tiny African kingdom’s economic dream
Eswatini’s king professed to have a bold plan for a thriving economic zone. ICIJ uncovered two phantom gold refineries channeling millions of dollars to Dubai through it.
"GIS and Creating Dashboards in R"
Join #Botswana R, #Eswatini UseR, #Bulawayo R and #Namibia RUsers for their first meet-up of 2024.
Speaker: Godwin Murithi, GIS Developer of CTI Africa
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Time: Wednesday, January 31, 2024 at 16:00 SAST (14:00 UTC)
Weaponized Capitalism, and the fantasy of "public vs private", and systemic oppression.
Eswatini: A woman cleans houses for $25/month. She's in poverty. So she starts farming marijuana, which is illegal. But she earns 30x what she was earning cleaning houses. It supports her and her family and her kids can now afford to go to school. The government is now considering legalizing marijuana as a crop. Good, right? Let her be a legitimate business woman, right?
License fee to farm it? $50K
Who benefits from a $50K licensing fee? Not her. Companies that can afford it, turn this into a corporate cash crop, and then hire her for $25/mo to farm their marijuana fields.
The Legislative Yuan on Friday passed amendments to a bill that will allow the importation of 46 different items from Eswatini, including nuts and dried fruits, into Taiwan tariff-free....
Königreich Eswatini: Wahlen nach dem Geschmack des Monarchen
Für König Mswati III. sind es reguläre Parlamentswahlen, doch Parteien sind in Eswatini - früher bekannt als Swasiland - nicht zugelassen. Die alles dominierende Person bleibt: der Monarch. Von K. Wehrheim.
Taiwan to waive import tariffs on 46 items from Eswatini (focustaiwan.tw)
The Legislative Yuan on Friday passed amendments to a bill that will allow the importation of 46 different items from Eswatini, including nuts and dried fruits, into Taiwan tariff-free....
Taiwan president to visit sole remaining African ally, Eswatini (www.modernghana.com)
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen will visit Eswatini, the island's only diplomatic ally in Africa, next month to firm up ties, her office said Friday....