What will Swaziland look like in 5 years?

Sir

If you don’t do politics you will be done in by politics’ is a quote made by a famous person.

So today my honourable editor allow me to tackle politics in Swaziland only. Don’t label me as a brave fellow yet because I was long termed a terrorist, so I do not care what happens after my letter is printed.

I am one of the few people who are not afraid to be incarcerated, interrogated or killed for change. I want change in Swaziland. A lot of Swazis have been loudly applauding the prime minister’s return to power and I wondered why. But sooner I got the correct answer from my mind, people are more concerned about history other than the future.

People are more interested in what the prime minister has done to instil discipline in the past and hope the will do the same today, they do not care about development and progress as a country.

South Africa’s Jacob Zuma has been talking jobs, Barack Obama promised the same but what about us?

I want democracy. From my old knowledge I have, it is the government of the people by the people for the people. Who said ours is a democratic country?

If honestly we can achieve democracy under tinkhundla then let it be. The truth is; we are moving away from democracy under the current state. So in that case I cannot applaud, I won’t and never will. But I want to warn my ‘brother applaud’ and ‘sister applaud’ that when you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.

If you ask me whether to leave things as they are then the answer is NO! Capital N, capital O.

As a nation we need to be united but that is not an automatic thing to happen so the PM must work hard to make us achieve that. As a Swazi I suffered not because I am foolish, but because I have been too kind, too generous with my own life.

We have been brought to the field to play an international match. We shall only win when our team learns to play in unity, keeping all the rules, trying to involve everyone in the game.

Ok then here we are as a nation mistaken for a fearful bunch yet I am sincerely sure that there are many things in life for which you have to risk your own life in order to get. I am also well vest with the fact that big fish live on small fish and that is the natural order of things.

What makes us to make noise is that we know kutsi under the current state of affairs we will be the first to die, literally.

I am sure we all know that small mountains are the first ones to go under water when flood comes. I get food to feed my family the most dangerous way then what shall I fear when someone threatens me when I cry democracy.

I face snakes and all sorts of animals while in the bush trying to get food for my children yet a human being who fears a snake even worse than me believes he can keep me in fear for five years. What an irony.

Let me warn you that the surface of a pool does not tell you the depth of the water, or what may be living inside it.

I beg for a government that has human touch not that equals a dog that barks very well and fight remarkably for its master.

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