LETTER OF APPEAL

Sir,

One of our greatest gifts in this day and age is information. We are more and better informed than Zeus ever was. At the flip of a page, we learn, at the touch of a button, we are informed.

With a simple click, we are empowered. The world over has been brought together, Somalian poverty hurts me as much as it does to a Nowergian. Nationalist movements in Europe and the US question my liberal standing and every squabble in Washington cutting budgetary expenses on everything else but the military equips my head of President Trump’s ambitions.

By the way, the Americans are to spend US$600 billion on their army and US$50 billion on diplomacy. That means less on the beloved USAID, PEPFAR, EPA, in particular the also beloved Paris Climate Summit agreement (COP21) and less on the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), which helps to fund initiatives of women health and planned parenthood.

In my questioning of all there is, courtesy of information sometimes duped fake news, I wonder where we (Swazis) stand. Because a war between the USA and North Korea would quite easily escalate into the use of nuclear weapons and surely that would affect our quiet existence, also. I wonder where we stand on the issue of 19 million Yemenis starving due to their multi-year drought wiping out even their storehouses. Mr Editor, I am writing this letter to appeal to any generous Swazis, with the little we have, someone has absolutely nothing.

With our worn-out shirts, someone is covered in nothing. With the little maize-meal you had saved for the evening, someone hasn’t had anything in two weeks. ‘Do to others as you’d like it done to you’ is an adage usually used to settle scores, we all have a score to settle. A score to save humankind, to feed a South Sudanese caught-up in the madness of cruel governance and selfish men, no wonder Nontobeko Tshabalala hates patriarchy.

Someone rise up and take a stand in leading a crusade of #SwazisfortheWorld, and we may spare a cent to buy another a loaf of bread, spare a T-shirt to clothe a child and another will spare a minute of their tongue-filled prayer to pray for the hungry, the lost, the destitute, the deprived and maybe, maybe we together and the world will save each other. Angela Merkel let in over a million refugees in Germany, what have we done, except off-course the Indian Commission?

FIFA Dlamini.

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