A report on Eswatini

A 19th-century Swazi container, carved in wood
Swaziland in Southern Africa, 1896
Topographic map of Eswatini
Landscape in Eswatini
Grewia villosa
Mswati III has been king of Eswatini since 1986.
Swazi army officers
A proportional representation of Swazi exports
Central Bank in Mbabane
Eswatini is part of the Southern African Customs Union (green).
Eswatini's population in thousands (1950–2021)
A rural primary school in Eswatini
King Mswati III at the reed dance festival where he will choose his next wife
Princess Sikhanyiso Dlamini (left) and Temtsimba Dlamini (right) at the reed dance (umhlanga) festival 2006
A traditional Swazi homestead
Swazi warriors at the incwala ceremony

Landlocked country in Southern Africa.

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Piggs Peak

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Piggs Peak is a town in northwestern Eswatini.

Pongola River

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River in South Africa.

River in South Africa.

The Pongola River winding through hills in and beyond the Ithala Game Reserve

Its main tributaries are the Bivane River and the Mozana River in South Africa, as well as the Ngwavuma in Eswatini.

Transvaal Colony

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The name used to refer to the Transvaal region during the period of direct British rule and military occupation between the end of the Second Boer War in 1902 when the South African Republic was dissolved, and the establishment of the Union of South Africa in 1910.

The name used to refer to the Transvaal region during the period of direct British rule and military occupation between the end of the Second Boer War in 1902 when the South African Republic was dissolved, and the establishment of the Union of South Africa in 1910.

Location of Transvaal, circa 1890
Aerial photography of gold mines, taken by Eduard Spelterini in July 1911
Location of Transvaal, circa 1890

The Transvaal Colony lay between Vaal River in the south, and the Limpopo River in the north, roughly between 22½ and 27½ S, and 25 and 32 E. To its south it bordered with the Orange Free State and Natal Colony, to its south-west were the Cape Colony, to the west the Bechuanaland Protectorate (later Botswana), to its north Rhodesia, and to its east Portuguese East Africa and Swaziland.

Simunye

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Simunye is a sugar mill town on the lowveld in eastern Eswatini.

List of countries by HIV/AIDS adult prevalence rate

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The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes AIDS, varies in prevalence from nation to nation.

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes AIDS, varies in prevalence from nation to nation.

Adult HIV prevalence exceeds 15% in Eswatini, Botswana, and Lesotho, while an additional six countries report adult HIV prevalence of at least 10%.

Big Bend, Eswatini

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Big Bend is a town in eastern Swaziland (Eswatini), lying on the Great Usutu River (Lusutfu).

Ndwandwe

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The Ndwandwe are a Bantu Nguni-speaking people who populate sections of southern Africa.

The Ndwandwe are a Bantu Nguni-speaking people who populate sections of southern Africa.

Others established themselves as chiefs of note in Swaziland and Zambia to create a Ndwandwe legacy of enduring power that is scattered across Southern Africa.

Luyengo

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Luyengo is a town in western Eswatini (formerly Swaziland).

Zion congregants dancing to the drums and singing in Harare (Zimbabwe).

African Zionism

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Religious movement with 15–18 million members throughout Southern Africa, making it the largest religious movement in the region.

Religious movement with 15–18 million members throughout Southern Africa, making it the largest religious movement in the region.

Zion congregants dancing to the drums and singing in Harare (Zimbabwe).
Zion dancers in Harare.

Zionism is the predominant religion of Eswatini and forty percent of Swazis consider themselves Zionist.

White farmers in Southern Rhodesia, early 1920s.

White Africans of European ancestry

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White Africans of European ancestry refers to people in Africa who can trace full, or partial ancestry to Europe.

White Africans of European ancestry refers to people in Africa who can trace full, or partial ancestry to Europe.

White farmers in Southern Rhodesia, early 1920s.
Lara Logan, South African journalist and war correspondent
Guy Scott, Vice President of Zambia from October 2014 to January 2015
Nobel and Booker prize-winning South African author J. M. Coetzee.
Camões prize-winning Angolan writer and former MPLA fighter Pepetela
Painting depicting the arrival of Jan van Riebeeck, founder of Cape Town, and one of the earliest European colonists in sub-Saharan Africa.
Boer guerrillas during the Second Boer War, 1900.
Oliver Risser, former Namibian footballer of German origin
Ghanzi, Botswana, home to a large Afrikaner community.
Cecil John Rhodes, the 6th Prime Minister of the Cape Colony and founder of the De Beers diamond company.
Notre Dame d'Afrique, a church built by the French Pieds-Noirs in Algeria.
The Huguenot Monument in Franschhoek, a structure dedicated to the French Huguenots who settled in South Africa.
Jorge Carlos Fonseca, former President of Cape Verde
Arrival of the first Italian locomotive in Tripoli, Italian Tripolitania, in 1912.
Italian Club in Boksburg
Church of Our Lady of the Rosary in Asmara, built by Italian Eritreans in 1923.
The geographer Ptolemy was a Greek born in Alexandria
Examples of daily use of German in Namibia.
A classroom in a German East African school.
A map of Togoland in 1885, with Lomé in the south-west. Note that all land above the coast is called 'Unexplored country', despite the whole territory being under German control.
A 1924 stamp depicting a typical Spanish-owned plantation in Spanish Guinea
Geographical distribution of Afrikaans in South Africa: proportion of the population that speaks Afrikaans at home.
The Namibia rugby team is largely white
The Zimbabwean women's field hockey team that won gold at the 1980 Olympics
German Settlers enjoying Christmas in Kamerun.
Bananas heading for Germany in 1912.
German surveyor in Kamerun, 1884.
A Police force on the Kaiser's birthday, 1901.
German men in Douala, Kamerun.
A German built workshop in Kamerun.
Oil in Kamerun, one of the many resources that the German Empire needed.
German settlers in the rainforest.
Governor's home in Buea, with Mount Cameroon in the background.
A German cemetery in Kamerun.
The schloss (palace) of Jesko von Puttkamer, governor of German Kamerun.
The proposed flag for German Kamerun

Sizable numbers of people of British descent are also nationals of Ghana, Namibia, Tanzania, Swaziland (3% of the population), Nigeria, and Botswana.