Eswatini: Swaziland: Vending to Survive

Johannesburg — With two-thirds of Swazis living in chronic poverty, and unemployment beyond 40 percent, the Swaziland may seem an unlikely destination for economic refugees, but 17-year-old Samito is emphatic that his future was bleaker in Mozambique.

Samito is one of several hundred unlicensed vendors in Swaziland's central commercial town of Manzini.

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