(Eswatini) Autism center to provide services

Dec 18, 2025, ‘E75 mil­lion Aut­ism Centre a huge relief for Eswat­ini’ 

https://www.pressreader.com/eswatini/eswatini-daily-news-9y77/20251218/281530822362682

The centre will have trained experts, hostel and edu­ca­tion, sport­ing and spe­cial­ised clinic facil­it­ies.

“PEACE, be still.”

These Blib­lical words by Jesus Christ when he ordered a viol­ent storm to calm on the Sea of Galilee. Eswat­ini Aut­ism Chair­per­son Senzo Hlat­sh­wayo bor­rowed these words from the Bible when he announced the news of a E75 mil­lion Aut­ism Centre con­struc­tion in Luhokohla, just a bit out­side the city of Man­zini along the Hhele­h­hele road. He was mak­ing his remarks in appre­ci­ation of the E100 000 dona­tion they received from Swazi Empower­ment Lim­ited (SEL) on Wed­nes­day at the lat­ter’s offices at Price­Wa­ter­House Coopers (PWC) inside the cap­ital city.

He was mak­ing his remarks in appre­ci­ation of the E100 000 dona­tion they received from Swazi Empower­ment Lim­ited (SEL) on Wed­nes­day at the lat­ter’s offices at Price­Wa­ter­House Coopers (PWC) inside the cap­ital city.

Before going any fur­ther, Aut­ism or Aut­ism Spec­trum Dis­order (ASD) is a lifelong neurodevel­op­mental affect­ing social inter­ac­tion, com­mu­nic­a­tion, learn­ing, and beha­viour, char­ac­ter­ised by var­ied strengths and chal­lenges, intense interests, sens­ory dif­fer­ences, and repet­it­ive actions, with its spec­trum nature mean­ing unique exper­i­ences for each indi­vidual, though often iden­ti­fied in early child­hood through devel­op­mental screen­ing.

“When we star­ted our dream to form this organ­isa­tion over 10 years ago, it was dif­fi­cult as the coun­try didn’t under­stand it, and it was linked with witch­craft. We had a lot of explain­ing to do. So, we thank com­pan­ies like SEL who sup­por­ted the course with pas­sion and under­stand­ing.

“We can’t for­get to express our sin­cere grat­it­ude to our Pat­ron Ink­hosikati LaMat­se­bula as she brings excep­tional lead­er­ship,” he said.

Hlat­sh­wayo then revealed that due to their growth over the years, the coun­try was set to bene­fit hol­ist­ic­ally through a centre spe­cial­ising in Aut­ism.

“We’re build­ing an E75 mil­lion worth Aut­ism Centre at Luhokohla in Man­zini. Con­struc­tion phase 1 is already under­way, and that’s worth E5 mil­lion as we have decided to do it in phases. It’s a big project,” explained Hlat­sh­wayo.

He said the centre will have trained experts, hostel ans edu­ca­tion, sport­ing and spe­cial­ised clinic facil­it­ies to allow life to con­tinue and get bet­ter for those with the con­di­tion, which is not an ill­nesses and can be out­grown if dis­covered at a tender age. . . .