EVICTIONS DON’T BRING US TOGETHER

Sir,

It is always funny, and to a certain extent interesting, how most people fuel hatred and dis-unity over a slice of bread when we have loaves. We have big bread loaves. Every refugee or expatriate or ‘investor’ leaves his habitation mostly for a lone simple reason; they want better. They want better returns for their investments, they want to be treated better, they want better neighbours, better roads, better fellows, better standards of living and so on and so forth. I for one would like to be a better fellow.

Bitterness

However, in all this ‘betterness’, there are governments, laws, natives, interests and reality. I am not one who prides himself in calling spades spades. I am a liSwati and for my lifetime. Ours has always been about ‘respect’ because we are better and stronger together. We are even stronger diverse, however, diversity flourishes on well nurtured ground. Where is the kind of government whose interest is its populace; the kind of government where laws and decrees are as good as their following-up and are forged for nothing else but to better its communities.

Educated

A nation with more than 40 per cent of its natives, educated and kancane-educated, being unemployed is bound to turn to hatred trying to vent its anger. We all hate a spiritless government. Now, why are we so not united? Because there are no glues. The leadership structure at hand is not so glue-y (gluwi), not that we don’t know. Spending huge amounts of taxpayers’ money on vanity projects, in a short space of time, does not and will never bring us together. New government vehicles don’t come any closer to bringing us together, including corruption, fat perks, evictions and inequality. Also, HIV/AIDS infections and violence against women and children do not bring us together. And an unaccountable government only makes sense to itself and its partakers. For now, what if we, as a country, concentrated on righting most of the wrongs that are allowed to happen, until such time the more than 40 per cent unemployed emaSwati are employed and see if we’ll have any need for such biasness and hate.

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