Eswatini

National jurisdiction · as of 2026-09-06

Eswatini has no social-media minor-access statute, app-store age-verification requirement, or age-appropriate design code, but the Computer Crime and Cybercrime Act, 2022 (Act No. 6 of 2022) carries an adult-content labeling and distribution duty at section 15: a person who publishes or exhibits pornographic material without printing prescribed identification particulars or indicating its age restriction or consumer advice, who distributes, publishes, advertises, or exposes pornographic material to a child or to a non-consenting adult, or who broadcasts a pornographic film to children or non-consenting adults, commits an offence.

The same Act's section 14 separately criminalizes producing, distributing, procuring, possessing, or knowingly accessing child pornography through a computer system, and making pornography available to a child or facilitating a child's access to it; these are content and offender-focused criminal offences rather than a duty on a service to verify a user's age before granting access.

The Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Act, 2018 similarly criminalizes making, and other conduct involving, pornographic material involving a child, again as an offender-focused offence rather than an age-verification duty on a publisher or platform; its own citation and commencement clause leaves its Act number and commencement date to be filled in, and no numbered Act citation or commencement notice has been located.