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DEMOLITIONS WILL TRIGGER REVOLUTION

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On one good day some years ago, some of my friends once said I would be a Sangoma or an Inyanga because of some of the dreams I used to have, especially between 2008 -2013 where I was severely harassed by the government as I was stopped and searched by the police in a manner unknown in my life!


For instance, in 2010, I wrote a column about my dream in which I was killed by the police in a forest, with green flies hovering over my bloodied body.
 In the same dream, my soul then flew like a drone, hovered over my family and I saw my wife crying uncontrollably. It was her tears which woke me from that painful dream. After waking up, she asked me whom I was talking to because he heard that I was talking to someone, pleading for some kind of help.


Shortly after I had that dream, police came and raided my house. I remember very well, it was June 17, 2010 when the police launched a search for more than four hours while neighbours stood at the fence, wondering what the heavily armed police were doing in my home.



 finding something illegal


I was later told by some of those police who conducted the search that their mission was aimed at finding something that could be illegal so that I could be detained at the police station at least for a night.
What I later realised was that there were two characters who were behind this plot - one being a senior politician while the other  one was a certain man working at the Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC). I have no doubt that had I eventually been detained, then my dream would have been fulfilled and I strongly believe that the message that would have circulated was that I had committed suicide- simply that and nothing more!


Back to this week’s theme, it is also about another dream I had on the eve of writing this article. It is about a song I sang in 1962 after the late Reverend John “Sweet Swanky’ Nxumalo had preached about the ‘rich foolish young man’ which the Bible talks about in Luke 12:13 - 20. As he was preaching, I heard a song which we sung while at primary school at Bethel Mission in the Shiselweni Region in 1958.



Peace perfect peace


This is the song: ‘‘Ukuthula, kulomhlaba wezono; Igazi lika Jesu linyenyeza Ukuthula: hallelujah, Ukuthula, hallelujah kulomhlaba wezono; hallelujah Igazi lika Jesu linyenyeza Ukuthula!” Simply meaning:” Peace perfect peace, hallelujah; in this our world of sin; hallelujah, the Blood of Jesus whispers peace within...”


It is the lack of peace that I am talking about today. If anyone says we are a peaceful country or nation; then how does he or she explain the current rate of murders of girls, boys, and women by their lovers?
But above all, how do we explain the ongoing forced removals of people from areas they were made to believe was their ancestral lands because they have to give way to a project that belongs to either Tibiyo TakaNgwane or Tisuka TakaNgwane?
While one shall be the first to admit that any land or property which belongs to Tisuka actually belongs to the late King Sobhuza II’s family (and not to the King as some people would like to tarnish our King’s name.)

land belongs to nation


However, with regards to Tibiyo TakaNgwane, the land belongs to the nation because it is held in trust for the nation by their King.
Therefore people  occupying  such land are rightfully on their land because the cattle which were taken from each household between 1946 to 1947 were meant to  be sold and the money received was  used to buy back  the land which had been taken over from EmaSwati by white settlers and  to restore it to the nation.


Why then should people on Tibiyo land be threatened with forcefully evictions? It is such injustices which promote revolutions in the world and we do not need it here.
When I see or read about such issues, I cannot, but see a future in which there shall be no peace in this land. When you begin to attack the middle class population while the majority of our people are buried in abject poverty; then one should be sure that he is inviting trouble.


Those who have studied the history of revolutions which erupted in other countries shall tell you that once you attack the middle class population, then soon you must expect a revolution on your hands.
The question is, ‘why must we see more of these injustices in a nation which boasts of being a Christian nation? Is it not because we are faking being Christians and beeing born again?
How, for instance does one justify the incident we read about in the print media which I consider as a criminal offence when a Sheriff locks in a mother and her two children for six days in an unhygienic house in which they didn’t  not exercise their natural rights to relieve  themselves.


Against this backdrop, you  should not be surprised if you can hear that the criminal and thug is calling himself or herself Christian and sings his or her lungs out on Sunday, presenting himself or herself as a serious Christian. Shame on you! You desperately need the grace of God through effective preaching by a Spirit led pastor so that you may see your sins, repent and be born again.
PEACE!

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