GOVT NOT IN SERVICE OF EMASWATI

Sir,

Without being cynical I cannot say I am gleefully optimistic over government changing the dire circumstances of emaSwati by taking the country on a new trajectory of renewal and prosperity only because I am a realist and not an infantile hypocrite who cannot see the wood for the trees.  Were things to turn out differently something short of a miracle would have happened, including those charged with the stewardship of the kingdom growing consciences and by progression rediscovering their moral compasses. This is underwritten by the truism that government is not in service of emaSwati per se but is there to serve a few, which by design is the centrifugal force of the obtaining egregious political system.

Mandate 

Nothing has changed in the mandate of the current government than what obtained during the old order. Thus it would be foolhardy for any right thinking person to expect anything new to emerge from this situation. The same dynamics that drove the kingdom to the social and economic abyss during the tenure of the last government remain in place today.  There are indicators that ought to become reference points apropos the priorities and performance of Cabinet in proving that the more things change the more they stay the same, to quote a French saying. These are borne of a hypothetical standpoint of a government of, by and answerable to the people and dispensing of the reality that some compatriots are inured to their daily grind of deprivation occasioned by the political and social elites that they believe to be the natural order of things.

Juncture

At this juncture I need not belabor that issue of corruption, which runs in the national vein of emaSwati for the simple reason that many have touched on it on numerous occasions. At this point I am not informed if government has the slightest measure just how deep-rooted and institutionalized the scourge of corruption is before making promises of zero tolerance; but time will tell.

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