WHAT’S HIDDEN FROM PUBLIC OPINION?

Sir,

What is worrying and aggravating in this whole political unrest issue is government’s condescending demeanour about its actions. The unrest speaks of the tens of thousands of people – at least 69 per cent of the population – who still have to face each day wondering from where their next meal would come from. Yet government continues to spend money on projects that will not alleviate poverty, including the hiring of soldiers. It is hard to believe that Cabinet ministers and other top government officials have not come across the face of poverty in rural communities of this country, hence their detached exterior to the affected communities.

Conditions

Or they have a pretty good picture of the impossible living conditions of the majority of the people but are drowning in a warm and comforting cesspool of immorality that they really do not care about everyone and everything else but for their own survival. After all, it is common currency that poverty has had such an indelible impact on those on the receiving end to the point of dehumanising them, hence they are even prepared to barter their votes for fat cakes to keep body and soul together.

Important

Yes, food plays such an important part of the election process in the Tinkhundla political set-up that potential lawmakers do not necessarily need to have an intelligent quotient of above one to win elections – all they need is a fair supply of food and, bingo, they are in Parliament to rubber-stamp decisions of the Executive.

Vote

At one point, as is the case now, emaSwati were unequivocal that they had had enough of an appointed prime minister, but wanted to vote for their own from within their midst. Yet even when for once the people had broken their silence the leadership still refused and refuses to listen to them and will predictably and deliberately cock a snook by returning almost the same old faces in Cabinet even if no one else can repose faith in their ability to occupy political or any leadership positions. What is more horrifying about the obtaining political hegemony that regards ordinary people as inconvenient passengers in the ship of state is what has our leadership successfully hidden from the magnifying glass of public opinion.

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