PRIVILEGED STAKE: Pines over people in timber giant’s bid to push Eswatini community off ancestral land

Eswatini’s finance minister, Neal Rijkenberg, is part of the family that owns Montigny, the timber company seeking to relocate the community. For residents fighting to remain on their ancestral land, the battle is not only against a corporation, but against a politically powerful figure whose financial interests are rooted in the very soil they are being asked to leave.