STOP MATSAPHA PROBE NOW – SANDLANE

 MANZINI – Matsapha Mayor Sandlane Zwane wants the ongoing commission of inquiry into the affairs of Matsapha Town Council stopped with immediate effect.

This is contained in a letter which was written by Zwane to different government departments and the chairperson of the commission. Some of the government departments which he copied the letter to included the Prime Minister’s Office, Ministry of Housing and Urban Development and Clerk to Parliament’s office, among others.

In the letter, which is dated February 18, 2019, the mayor said it was common cause that the government ought to transmit its matters according to the procedures of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Eswatini at all times.

Deviation

He said any deviation from the ethics would inevitably be rejected. He said in handling of such matters, the ‘course’ should be in line with the Constitution.
He alleged that the Constitution demarcates the beginning of a new era and if there was anything to import from the old era, “the statute specifically does in Sections 252, 268 and 270.”

“The Ministry of Housing and Urban Development is outright in breach of the supreme law of the land and should discontinue the violation of the Constitution right away,” the mayor claimed in the letter.

He claimed that this was because the ministry did not have the authority to conduct the work, specifically as outlined in the Constitution as it was supposed to be done by the Human Rights Commission.

On that note, the mayor claimed that the ‘illegal’ commission was causing people to slander each other, including the witnesses such that the interpersonal animosities in Matsapha Town Council have reached an all time high, leaving the general public open to a mountain of lawsuits.

He alleged that some of the issues touched on by the commission were still pending in court but the commissioners continue to ask questions on same.
Furthermore, the mayor claimed that the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development had failed the State and the nation at large because of its alleged failure to implement the Tinkhundla System of Governance in all towns and cities in the Kingdom.

“Section 218 of the Local Government Act clearly states that the ministry shall have turned all the towns and cities to the Ministry of Local Government within five years from the commencement of the Constitution, that is about 15 years ago,” he claimed.

He claimed that there were only two options in life and that was to make progress or make excuses. He alleged that currently, the ministry stands guilty of failure to uphold and protect the Constitution of the Kingdom of Eswatini in a number of manners.

Some of the manners he pointed out included leadership code of conduct (Section 239 and 240), equality before the law (Section 20 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) and Section 22 (d) (c)) and system of governance (Section 79 part (1) (a) and (b)). Others were right to representation (Section 84 (1), political objection (Section 58 (1-7), economic objectives (Section 59 (c) (d)) and social objectives (Section 60 (1 and 2)).

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