GOVT AT WAR WITH CITIZENS?

Sir,

There are ominous signs hovering over Eswatini like the sword of Damocles. The horizon is cloudy, what lies behind is incomprehensible; yes beyond human understanding. The mist which had been gathering progressively over the years has become so thick and perceivably frightening. Frightening because the political gladiators at the helm and in the centre of it all have no sense of history. 

The situation is saddening as well because the politicians in the marketplace, who should straighten the tilting head of the baby strapped on the mother’s back, are in a state of paranoia. So also are the others who are expected to know where the tree being axed by this system of governance would fall from the marketplace.

Storm

In the end the storm is gathering and stones are being thrown into the marketplace from all directions. It is hard to tell whose head would be smashed, whose nose would be broken, whose eyes would be plucked, whose years would be blocked.

At the moment the country is on turbulent waters with seemingly government captains at the helm who are battling with impaired sight. So we are at loss where the wind would cause the ship to berth. A nation of prayer warriors that we are, we are praying fervently that the ship, no matter what, would anchor in one piece at the Port of Good Hope.
The Government of Eswatini’s refusal to make peace with its citizens has born a full scale war. Government uses everything at its disposal just to fight its citizens.

Valuable

Yet it should understand that every life is valuable irrespective of the status of a citizen. It is sad that government and its agents do not show sufficient disposition of this nature. If anything the system of governance should take the blame of terribly and shamelessly messing up the country. It should bury its head in the sand.

Problems

This system is the cause of all the problems we are facing in this country. It has woefully failed to satisfy the yearnings and aspirations of the people of present day Eswatini. 

Then you ask: how much longer can emaSwati endure the oppression by this system. Our collective grief and worries have reached frightening levels. Anxiety has rattled down everyone’s nerve paths; families are worried. We are all living in fear; fear of being terrorised by our very own government, and where they might attack next.  This system of governance has embarrassed this country many times over and left it gravely wounded in the eyes of the world.

Concerned Swazi

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