Times Of Swaziland: TIME TO SPEAK OUT

TIME TO SPEAK OUT
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The Editor on 27/12/2017 00:18:00


Sir,
Archbishop Thabo Makgoba, of the Anglican Church of South Africa, has shown a
torch to those who call themselves leaders, to speak out against the disservice
to the multitude of our people by leaders who they pay or put in power to serve
them.
This should tell these so-called leaders not to look the other way and pretend
that they do not talk politics. By looking the other way, in the midst of such
poor service, they are making a political point; of indifference and allow the
incompetence to continue.
That in Swaziland we can have a simple explanation of ‘it is a blunder’ and
nothing happens, no heads will roll as the left-out elderly grants’ potential
beneficiaries suffer in need, should be an embarrassment to anyone who thinks
they are leaders.
That Swazis in dire health circumstances are in pain and some even face death
because the country has accumulated unpaid debts in South Africa is an
indictment to leaders as they remain silent.
That this country of ours, with the honour of being a member of the ILO’s
governing body, is reported to have taken a decision to reduce the allowances
that had become part and parcel of the conditions of employment of those
professionals in the medical field in government’s employ, without even
negotiating, that begs the question ‘ngabe asi salati yini luhlazo’?
Where are those urgent supplementary budget proposals we have seen for the most
useless projects that do not benefit the ordinary Swazi man, woman and child?
It is not a wonder though that we have such treatment. What do these leaders
care because it affects those of us who are poor and powerless?
There is a glaring lack of leaders with the courage to recall and live the words
of Martin Luther King Jnr when he said; “Our lives begin to end the day we
become silent about the things that matter.”
Vincent V Ncongwane