How Long? How Long? How Long?

It is with sadness that I write this note after witnessing the barbaric behavior displayed by the Swaziland armed forces abusing the very hand that feeds them. The vicious act of those who are to protect citizens and maintain peace & order was not acceptable. The advancement of mobile technology played a major role in capturing the events that took place on April 12 & 13. The claim that the armed forces were out to maintain peace & order is a blatant lie as the pictures say something else. Brutalizing the change agents will not transform the country, an urgent politically dialogue is needed as people continue to suffer from such an immoral system. Plutocracy seems to dominate our governing system. It looks like we have demigods in the government by the name of PM Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini and Foreign Affairs Minister Lutfo Dlamini. The twos superiority has become superfluous as they seem to address the Swazi Nation like their servants in their farms. Their remarks have become the policies the armed forces superiors live by as soon as they speak they are quick to unleash their subordinates to brutalize, arrest, and detain citizens of the beautiful Kingdom.

The governments effort to invoke God in the midst of their mess is totally unacceptable and to liken the labor movements to the devil was arrogant at its best. The people being brutalized are mothers and fathers, daughters and sons, husbands and wives, sisters and brothers they deserve utmost respect from the naïve government. Now to our government for continuously ignoring the grievances from taxpayers, if accountability and transparency is valued in the Capitol Hill why not address them or resign then since addressing them is beyond your reach. Truly speaking the government should be accountable to the citizens of the country, yet ours seems to be accountable to themselves as they continue to enrich their families from the scarce resources.

It would be interesting to engage our Prime Minister Barnabas S. Dlamini and Minister Lutfo Dlamini on a way forward. The two keep on telling lies about what the people want and when the very same people who participated in the constitution formation are being deprived the very right to organized. This is spelled out in the constitution of Swaziland about people being allowed to associate. Now that right is being taken away from them in such an inhuman activities. The armed forces are paid for by the tax payers resources and today they turn around and brutalize them. To watch the Commissioner of Police Isaac Magagula flanked by his executive team telling lies in public was crazy. Who are we going to trust if the people who took oath can fib like this – Nkosi Sikelel’ i Swaziland. The place for such character is behind the prison walls as they talk about terrorists, in the country we do not have to look too far Mbabane Police Headquarters and the Capitol Hill is where they are.

It is hard to understand people who unleash police like dogs to go after their own people. Its absurd! Today Swaziland has been turned into a police state just because you cannot accommodate those of different views. In a dialogue setting people voice their opinions, debate, agree, disagree, but at the end of the dialogue there must be some form of agreements being reach. In most cases people do not agree so in that case through compromise then settle on something. The Swazi Government cannot have it all. If the government respects the voices of the Swazi people then they should have resigned long time ago instead of hiding behind royalty. Both house of parliament have been telling you to resign because you have failed the Swazi nation. How long are we going to live like this? Being oppressed by few individuals guarding their own space so that they continue to loot the confers of the government.

Barnabas’ government is setting up members of the royal family against the public. The truth is the truth so to the Cabinet ministers the best thing for you to do is resign and go to your respectful Chiefdoms and let your Umphakatsi know that you have failed the oath you took in parliament. It is obvious the government does not understand what is going on and have no clue on the way forward. The country needs women & men who will step up to the challenge and transform the country. We have witnessed so many people being frustrated for bring innovative from former SPTC MD E. Nathi Dlamini to Kings Private Secretary Sam Mkhombe. Nathi transformed SPTC to a stable and profitable entity, Mkhombe wanted to conduct a study so he learn from those who were involved in the Imbokodvo National Movement, Umlangeni Mathendele was sacrificed for listening and being invited to partake in the study, so many people have been sacrificed for their vision and leadership. The country needs transformational leaders with vision and best interest of the country.