It was officially started by King Sobhuza II, in February 1978, as the Swaziland Television Broadcasting Corporation (STBC).
In November 2001, Swazi TV signed a deal with pan-African television syndicator ABN.
[2] Phesheya Dube was a Swazi journalist who pretended that he reported from the midst of the fighting in Baghdad during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
[3][4] When the war in Iraq started, Dube began to send "live" reports from Baghdad to the Morning Show of Radio Eswatini.
Program host Moses Matsebula even told him to take care of himself and once instructed him to find a cave to hide from the missiles.