IS IT SWAZI PRIDE OR IGNORANCE’S ARROGANCE?

 Sir,

I am always perturbed and distressed when people take ignorance’s arrogant pride as Swazi pride.  Looking at Senator Moi Moi Masilela’s diabolic diatribe in Parliament, I feel very much ashamed but not disappointed. It is very unfortunate that we have people of his type in such positions.

  Even after all the years he’s been in Parliament, that the Senator can today, off the cuff, tell you what AGOA stands for, save for that America is bullying us and we have to pull out of AGOA not even knowing the ramifications of that. Sometimes it makes me shudder to be called a Swazi I so much like and was born to be. May people never make us regret our birthright?

Surely if this type of people grasped the impact of their statements they would be ashamed of themselves. What the senator did reminds me a few years ago when we formed Usutu Pulp. Here we had done the best negotiations any man has ever done to the extent that even renting the vast workshops we were to use was at one Lilangeni a year. When greed reared its ugly head certain elements wanted to snatch the business from the workers as opposed to maintaining our blueprint.

For those of us who have lived and had quite a few experiences we tend to look back at peoples’ backgrounds. Through experience I have learnt that giving power to people who have not studied extensively is worse than giving a gun to a child. They tend to think they are the cleverest of people to have so much power over even people with academic degrees. They are always right in their own ignorance. The worst part is that they are won’t even upgrade themselves.

To save his name, the appointing authority should devise a way of assessing and evaluating the people he has to appoint and the performance of the people he has appointed.
We are somehow senior citizens who are ignored, looked down upon and understand the pressures and duties the appointing authority has to go through. That is why we have always cried that we would like him to shine like the sun on the nation.

  Have no brother for he is brother to all, have no cousin for he is cousin to all, have no relative for he is a relative to all, shun any corruption-related person and keep as far as possible from people who drag his name through the mud. Much as the Swazi nation may be seen as quiet or naive. The unfortunate part is that the whole world is watching. When people are corrupt and arrogant in their ignorance around our beloved head of State they tarnish his name too. May God help us?

 Joecking M Dlamini

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