SA to help pay for Swazi road upgrade

MBABANE – SA will pick up some of the tab for the upgrading of a key road in Swaziland into a highway, King Mswati said last week. “Very soon the gravel road between Hlatikhulu (in the southern Shiselweni region) and Siphofaneni (in the central Manzini region) will be a thing of the past. The EU and SA government have agreed to fund the project,” King Mswati told a group of Shiselweni business people. The king did not say how much the project would cost or the amount committed by SA. He suggested work would commence next year. “This will assist in terms of improving business in the Shiselweni region as we all know development in infrastructure is key to business success,” the king said. The highway’s terminus at Siphofaneni will put it close to the new international airport under construction in Sikhupe.