STOP KILLING OUR WOMEN!

Sir,

Why is it that the more we advocate for women empowerment and gender equality the more they seem to die in the hands of men? It is not even about the numbers anymore, it is the gruesomeness that warrants a serious interrogation into this matter. Everybody who cares must now stand up and do their part to put a stop to it because to ignore it is the same as condoning it.

Appreciate

It is times like these that we get to appreciate the roles of organisations like SWAGAA and Kwakha Indvodza that have dedicated themselves to minimising this onslaught. At times their work seems like just figures and we simply view them as NGOs with an anti-men agenda. They do report that men are also coming out as victims of woman brutality but this is pale by comparison. This does not suggest it is right or okay.

We don’t need any form of violence, especially at a time when the country could be better served concentrating on how best to fight the spread of COVID-19 and how to improve our almost non-existent healthcare sector and limping economy, which need some rejuvenation. The amount of energy men are putting into punching and butchering women could best be used up ploughing fields and generating food for a country like ours that is still importing more than half its consumption from neighbouring countries.

Taxing

That government, through the Eswatini Revenue Authority  (SRA), is taxing us to the bone is not the fault of our women; so why should we vent our frustrations on them? We cannot afford to worsen the investment climate by turning Eswatini into a murder country. If it is the high unemployment that women bashers are angry about, then let them speak to politicians who are getting paid to create jobs. We shouldn’t take to our bush knives to demand a salary from a hard working woman. Women are there to be admired and loved, therefore let there be tolerance.

Choose

If your woman is being courted by other men, give her the right to choose and if you happen to be the chosen one, keep the love spark alive for as long as you are together because other suitors are only a wink away at every minute of the day. If love doesn’t live there anymore, move on. It is by no mistake that God has given mankind more women than men. The choice is wide so why behave like it’s the end of the world? Move on for Christ’s sake. We were called gentlemen for a reason; it should remind us not to use our God given strength to harm a fellow human being.

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