Tibiyo takangwane - the capital base for the Swazi aristocracy

Consequently, Tibiyo, which has become a principal capital base of the modern Swazi monarchy, has operated only at the massive cost of skewing national development priorities and draining the central government budget. For all of Swaziland's copious natural resource base, and whatever the effects of foreign influences, its national economy will never achieve its full potential for the benefit of all its citizenry as long as Tibiyo exercises such overwhelming and exploitative dominance over so much of its modern sector.



From
Alan Booth's Historical Dictionary of Swaziland
Scarecrow Press 2000