Those who love His Majesty the King

Sir,

It is the time of the year that Their Majesties must be advised carefully so as to make informed decisions on their selection of candidates for Emabandla (committees). 

Grovelling, bootlicking, gossiping, backbiting, lies, etc are very rife at this time.
Your Majesties, please be wary of people who will come to you ‘netetfulo’ (gifts).

All these years, these people have been quiet and not available even to weed your fields but all of a sudden, out of the blue, they remember that kufanele bayowetfula emaKhosini.

Why do they choose to use these months when the appointing authorities need some people to advise them?
I am not against ‘kwetfula (paying allegiance through gifts) because it is our culture.
I sometimes ask myself why a person should fail kwetfula eSikhulwini  sakhe first loosely translated paying allegiance through gifts to their chiefs.
Charity begins at home.

By the way, the culture of kwetfula goes like this: “If you feel that you want to give a gift to Their Majesties, procedure is that you do that through your Chief.”
Unless you don’t have a chief, then I would ask myself where you were born.  All that Their Majesties need are men and women who are honest, period. Their Majesties do not need our money or anything but they want an honest person.
What we are witnessing these days is so appalling.

People are trying their utmost best to appear to be good boys and girls just to be appointed.
Your Majesties, may I please advise you on the following:
1. Verify every person from his respective Chief. If that particular person is hardly known even in his chiefdom, don’t even bother to consider that person for any position of authority.

2. Ask National Police Commissioner Isaac Magagula to send one of his boys in blue to secretly make background checks on any individual who tries to rub shoulders with you.

3. Avoid at all costs these overnight millionaires who have all of a sudden become members of the royal regiments and have suddenly become millionaires from nowhere. Be very careful as they will tarnish your good names.

4. Do not necessarily accept cattle from people who have never given even E20 to a hungry neighbour.

5. Be careful of people who will come to you and say bad things about others. In fact, if such people come anywhere near you, I ask you to do like King Sobhuza II who always would immediately call the person who is being gossiped about.

6. Be careful of some chiefs who will come to you and say bad things about their subjects, just because they want to prejudice your decisions. (I am not at all referring to my chief Nkhosiyami; he is just so good, I would die for him).

Your Majesties, the list is exhaustive but all I am saying is that be careful. Consider people who will tell you the truth, not what will make you happy. Those are the people who love you.
Lastly, we are praying for good councillors to advise you.

Never forget the plight of the poor in this country.
They form the majority of your population, so please look after them. ‘Bayethe!’

Khokhumncadvo
ZONDWAKO

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