OUR FUTURE LOOKS BLEAK

However, the serious events that define the future and character of our nation forced me to postpone the tribute and concentrate on the worrying trends that are threatening our future as a nation.

The first of these worrying trends is the ongoing kidnapping of our children, who are later found murdered and their body parts mutilated.

In as much as Chief Gija is denying that these murders are linked to the coming elections, the trend is proving him wrong because each time it is elections year, the killings escalate. How does he explain this phenomenon? And why are we doing this as people?

chasing money and power

As I put it in last week’s article; that this nation has turned its back against God  and is now chasing money and power. This has resulted in some men abusing many vulnerable women, and that has resulted in the highest rates of divorces. In order to ascend into the power they are so much seeking, they have been hoodwinked to believe that the best way is to pay huge sums of money to witches (batsakatsi) who promise them that in order to be successful in the coming national elections, they need to wash their faces with a piece of human flesh, which was mutilated from the victim while he/she was still alive.

believe the lies of these witches

The hungers for political power and money make some of us believe the lies of these witches. Unless this nation returns to our only God, confess our sins and then turn away from our wicked ways, God will not forgive us for these shenanigans.
The second issue which surprised me was that of some former Members of Parliament (MPs), who are resigning from their lucrative jobs in the private sector in order to campaign so that they could be re-elected. How does one become so certain that he would be elected under our current electoral system? Is it because someone believes that he or she has bought enough votes to get him or her elected?

Do such people believe that we, the voters, are so stupid that we easily forget what they did previously? If a politician was once found in the wrong, why then does he or she thinks we the voters have forgotten such wrong? This is simply undermining the intelligence of the voters. Let such people know this: “We are not as dumb as you think we are; we still clearly remember what you did.”

The third issue which is of great concern is the one about ministers who are hell-bent on defying either Parliament or ratepayers. We have been following the defiance of Parliament by Cabinet in the case of the ACC probe. Here is a clear example of how Jacob Zuma allowed and promoted the State Capture by the Guptas and his family.

In the case of the ACC probe, Parliament, which has the authority and power  to hold Cabinet fully accountable for its actions, identified a need to investigate alleged wrong-doing happening at the State institution.   A select committee is appointed by Parliament to investigate these allegations. But no! The Minister of Justice, Edgar Hillary, jumps in and orders that no one should heed to the call by Parliament.  

I wished should say ‘injustice’ because his actions clearly promote and protect injustices which afflict some of the people of this Kingdom of Eswatini. We should remember that this is not the first time Minister Hillary defies the law. Remember what he did when the courts sentenced him to 30 days in prison for defying the order allowing the people of Ka-Mkhweli and Macetsheni to return to their homes without hindrance? 

He defied that order and as the head of the police then, his charges did not arrest him and he got away with impunity which his bosses celebrated. Therefore, one is not surprised to see him doing this once again.

But then the question is, ‘what is he protecting by doing this?  Does he know something we should not know about? If so, is that the mandate he was given when taking up the position of being minister of the Crown?

In whose interest is he and his Cabinet colleagues doing this?  Had the South African Parliament not taken an action and ordered that an investigation be launched on public institutions by then Public Protector - Advocate Thuli Madonsela, we would have never known about the looting of State institutions by the Guptas under Zuma’s protection. We need similar courage and conviction by our own parliamentarians to continue with these investigations of the ACC until we know what is being protected by Cabinet.

transferred to unimportant positions

We are much alive to the fact that civil servants have pointed at directions where millions of Emalangeni were channelled by some civil servants and instead of being brought to book to face the wrath of the law, they were transferred to unimportant positions.  Therefore, we need Parliament to quickly conclude these investigations before the dissolution of Parliament.

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