Times Of Swaziland: NUMEROUS AFFLICTIONS POURED DOWN ON YOUTH

NUMEROUS AFFLICTIONS POURED DOWN ON YOUTH
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Editor on 23/12/2022 08:02:00


Sir,
The greatest sin of our time must surely be the state of despair, misery,
depression, confusion and nearly complete idleness of the youth which is a
result of unemployment and underemployment of the youth in the country. I think
not of a better time than now to express my frustrations and those of many young
people who are trapped in poverty due to unemployment.
The pandemic hit us greatly and its impacts are still being felt by many, but I
put it to our youth that the effects of this might be even severely felt in more
years to come. The virus also devastated the survival of many who have lost
their jobs permanently and temporarily.
Cursed
Eswatini over the years has been cursed with the simultaneous plagues of
infection and poverty, both resulting to the collapse of a very pivotal group,
the youth of this country. The youth are supposed to be the driving force of a
new and better country, they should be responsible for creating socio-economic,
political, creative and constructive changes that will ensure a bright and
prosperous future for the current and next generation. Sadly, this has not been
happening for quite a while.
With everyone bound by many social ills, the youth have been suffering even
more. Many are stagnant (idle), some educated with no prospects of being
employed. Given such harsh times and the disheartening reality, what exactly is
the youth to do to survive?
Afflictions
There are numerous afflictions that have poured down on our young, presumed to
be productive youth. From time to time we hear our elders in our communities
complaining how immoral and lost our young people are. It is as if this
generation has been consumed by the devil’s wishes for human destruction or
maybe he has succeeded at his mission looking at the demise of our youth?
Maybe to shed light to our leadership and elders, what exactly could result of a
young generation that is just living without purpose, waiting for death to
strike? The youth are just floating about, deeply emerged in nothingness and
their idle state. Such waste of so much potential and talent! Such demise is
dangerous both to our current state of engagement in society and even worse
towards the future.
Repent
Our leadership in every aspect ought to repent before this idleness kills
everything we call an Eswatini society, which is thriving. We need to remind
ourselves the destructiveness that may come with an idle mind and how poisonous
such a mind can be. It is the responsibility of the youth to come up with
solutions for their own problems and be creative in finding better solutions to
such problems, yet at the same time it is also the responsibility of our
leadership to assist and aid youth development. Yes, our government is trying,
but surely it is not enough.
The youth, therefore, has a critical mandate to discover and to create a new
functional Eswatini filled with progression and the prevention of suffering.