IN PICS | Storm clouds over Africa's last absolute monarchy, Eswatini

A visit to the troubled kingdom of Eswatini produces images of poverty, wealth, beauty and pain

31 October 2021 - 00:00

To say you could hear a pin drop at the Golela border post between northern KwaZulu-Natal and Eswatini would be an understatement — the sound would easily have  reverberated through the eerie silence when the Sunday Times visited last week...

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