reportedly under a heavy deficit of 40 million emalangeni. Hot on the heels of the financial woes, the ICT Ministry suspended the financial director and chief executive officer. Both state broadcasters made headlines following under-reported stories of sexual harassment of female media practitioners. Instead of dealing with this serious matter, the ICT ministry and management of the state broadcasters swept it under the carpet. Even the Swaziland Editors’ Forum (SEF) failed to raise this issue at its quarterly breakfast meetings with the prime minister. After the collapse of salary negotiations between the Media Workers Union of Swaziland (MWUS) and the Swazi Observer Group of Newspapers, MWUS members embarked on a strike to press the media company to meet their demands for a salary hike. Swaziland Shopping, a weekly business newspaper, reported that one of the staff grievances was sexual harassment of female media workers perpetrated by one of the male media managers. No action was taken by media bodies, media owners and editors to investigate allegations of sexual harassment. In 2016, two journalists working for the Times of Swaziland were arrested for corrupt practices. One was accused of taking money from a subject of his story in order to suppress his story. The other was accused of extorting money from people by impersonating investigators from the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). After a disciplinary hearing, the Times dismissed the former while the latter was arrested by ACC investigators. Media Landscape Instead of experiencing any appreciable growth, the Swazi media sector 96 So This is Democracy? 2016 remained stagnant due to the shrinkage of advertising revenues. The two struggling tabloid newspapers, namely the Swazi Mirror and Ingwazi News had to close shop. In 2016, there were only two media start-ups, namely Buzlink Sports, a sports and business magazine, and a business weekly, Business Express. These privately owned publications were struggling as they could not command regular space in the newsstands. The media environment favours the Times of Swaziland Group of Newspapers and Swazi Observer Group of Newspapers. The former publishes the Times of Swaziland, Swazi News and Times of Swaziland Sunday while the latter the Swazi Observer, Observer on Saturday and Sunday Observer. Small publications such as Independent News and Swaziland Shopping are struggling to keep afloat due to scarce advertising revenues. Swaziland has two monthly magazines: The Nation and Agribusiness, which are also limping along. Victory for media sector when government heeded calls for reinstatement of journalism in list of priority areas. Two state broadcasters dominate the electronic media, namely the Swaziland Broadcasting and Information Service (radio) and Swaziland Television and