Times Of Swaziland: COMMIT TO NATION BUILDING

COMMIT TO NATION BUILDING
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Editor on 01/12/2022 08:07:00


Sir,
It’s very disturbing to witness the fall of Eswatini in our generation; I
wonder what historians will assume of us with the way we are handling the
current crisis. Maybe 100 years from now, they will say we were uneducated like
the people of the 1900s, when we lost almost all our land to neighbouring
states. Now we are made to run helter skelter by people who are advocating for
the need for change in the way our country is governed. I don’t blame them but
I am disappointed by the way they are going about it. Since I was a little boy I
have heard of promises that things would change, poverty will be dealt with but
nothing tangible is being done.
Leaders
As for the things said, leading to the political unrest, they clearly
demonstrated that government and other leaders are detached from what people are
going through and their pain. I am sure that it will take a long time to repair
and rebuild trust between them and the general citizenry.
Transparency
All people want is transparency and the spending of our taxes according to the
needs of the nation. I am neither a progressive nor a conservative, I just want
to see a better Eswatini, because to me it seems like our country can only
advance through policies that are emaSwati oriented. However for that to happen
we need to get all people on board, politicians and the citizenry, so that we
are able to work together for the development of our country, because we cannot
afford to have people pulling at different directions. To our advantage,
geographically, Eswatini is small, so we can get our nation running in a short
space of time if only we can settle our differences and commit ourselves to
nation building. This crisis has come to test our strength and weaknesses; so we
must redefine our course for us to come out of this ‘storm’ in one piece.