Eswatini: Varsity Blames Govt for Cash Crisis

Only one week after King Mswati III of Swaziland publicly declared his support for higher education in his kingdom, it is reported that his Government has not paid monies it promised one of the newest universities and it cannot pay salaries.

King Mswati, who rules Swaziland as sub-Saharan Africa's last absolute monarch, and hand-picks the Swazi Government, said in his speech at the opening of parliament that his kingdom now had a 'huge challenge to develop more institutions of higher learning for our youth in the country that will be affordable to parents and of high quality'.

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