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A colonial paper in the heart of Africa

At the age of 23, in 1888, the founding father of the Times of Swaziland Allister Mitchel Miller (1864 – 1951) affectionately known, to the Swazi people, as Mabhala (writer) or Mabhal’izincwadi (writer of books or letters) arrived in Swaziland.Nine years later he established the Times of Swaziland with the backing of the colonial government. By then he was a fully knighted British Resident Commissioner and a newspaperman.