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The Swaziland national football team, nicknamed Sihlangu Semnikati, is the national team of Swaziland and is controlled by the National Football Association of Swaziland. It has never qualified for the World Cup or the African Nations Cup finals. It is the first team that South Africa faced under the guidance of Carlos Alberto Parreira. They drew 1-1. The most promising youngster in the country is Mzwandile Mamba. Sihlangu's best performance in an international tournament is a semifinal finish in the COSAFA Cup.
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The Baylor-Bristol-Myers Squibb Children's Clinical Center of Excellence - Swaziland is the third of five facilities to be created by the Bristol-Myers Squibb-Baylor partnership on the continent, all in resource limited settings. The first opened in Botswana in 2003 and currently has 1,400 children under treatment. The Baylor-Bristol-Myers Squibb Children's Clinical Center of Excellence - Lesotho opened on World AIDS Day 2005. The network will expand with two additional centers scheduled to open in Burkina Faso and Uganda in 2007.
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Swaziland has large reserves of anthracite coal, which with asbestos form the country's mineral exports. Asbestos extraction has diminished in recent years because health risks associated with the material have decreased its use. Industrial diamond mining began in the mid-1980s. Much of Swaziland's manufacturing is related to agricultural and wood processing. The tourism industry is growing; some 839,000 people visited Swaziland in 2005, attracted by the country's game preserves and mountain scenery.
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Swaziland has excellent farming and ranching land, and 80% of the population is engaged in subsistence agriculture. Sugarcane is grown on plantations, mainly for export. Other important crops are cotton, corn, tobacco, rice, citrus fruits, pineapples, sorghum, and peanuts. Cattle and goats are raised in large numbers. The Swazi engage primarily in subsistence farming on communally owned land that is allocated by chiefs. The pine and eucalyptus forests of the high veld yield timber and wood pulp.
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The Swaziland Rugby Unions U/14’s side “Ingwe” (Siswati for Leopard) returned home from the Touraid U/14’s tournament in a jubilant and happy mood having come third overall losing to Kazakhstan by one unconverted try. Ingwe got to the third fourth play off by beating Kenya 39-5, Zambia 17-7 and Romania 42-7. The only blot on Ingwe’s copy book was losing to eventual tournament winners India’s “Jungle Crows who beat South Africa in the final. Ingwe coach, Brendan Ross-Munro praised his young team for their commitment and effort.
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In 1982, South Africa and Swaziland formally agreed to defend each other's security interests, with Swaziland promising to deport African National Congress (ANC) members back to South Africa. After 61 years as monarch, Sobhuza died and Prince Makhosetive Dlamini was selected as his successor in 1982; he was crowned King Mswati III in 1986. The late 1980s were marked by periodic raids by South African troops searching for ANC dissidents operating from Swaziland. In 1992, severe drought conditions put Swaziland in danger of famine. During the 1990s a series of protest actions by prodemocracy dissidents put increasing pressure on the king. The country's first parliamentary elections were held in 1993, but candidates for the lower house had to be nonpartisan and were nominated by local councils (the upper house is largely appointed by the king).
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