WHO HEARS ESWATINI’S OUTCRY?

Well, the concept of ‘minority’ began when men started to see themselves as superior than others especially the lower class/average workers. It is through the divergence of the machines in the 1900’s which marked a drastic change from how a mere man viewed others next to him. Socialism was now a ‘thing’ of the past but isolation compounded by private ownership of resources (minerals) and other items marked the beginning of transformation.

In the old good days, during the life of the first inhabitants of the earth, there were the San who believed in equality and sharing of food and resources.
For example, during the reign of the San men were tasked with hunting while women were tasked with gathering and preparing of food. Also food was shared equally among all tribes and in today’s context food was shared even in settings of extended families each got a share of what the others were eating.

Nowadays the concept of Darwin ‘survival of the fittest’ exists mostly. People are now divided into the ‘haves and have nots’. The ‘haves’ have formed some class in which they tend to control the means of production such as land, capital, labour and entrepreneurship. The average worker now is seen as an object who has to do all the manual labour in exchange for money.

In Eswatini, the era of revolution marked about a drastic change in how we operated. Capitalism became the mother of every liSwati man and woman’s life. As we speak in such a dangerous time and infectious era, there are the people who still derive happiness by the tears of another. It was not long ago that there was a decree of lockdown in the country, schools were closed as well as tertiary institutions but there are some factory shells which are still operational, not just factory shells but even other businesses which are just like the factory shells. For example, one of the biggest factory in Matsapha is operational therefore one begins to wonder as do the owners ‘capitalists’ who push their workers to work if they value the lives of their workers or they value their returns (money).

Who hears the voice of the
minority in Eswatini?

When you take a walk/drive around the country you will see Chinese/ the whites and a handful of Swazi’s with masks, but the masses do not have masks, yet we say Eswatini is heading towards first world status.

All the countries not long ago in the G-20 called a meeting in response to the coronavirus pandemic. What is intriguing the most about this countries is that they are able to fight this pandemic and in some countries there are minimal deaths and some countries are still clean from such a pandemic and one begins to wonder if by any chance we will ever get to first world living.

In the country it is only a few that will live in First world, the lives of the minority are left at risk while the capitalists take precautions and hide in fancy places around the country but leave out the minority to die. The police in Eswatini are seen busy beating up the public when going to nearby ships just to buy a pack of rice/bread and I am wondering what kind of brutality that is.

The message from such brutality by the police is a force which is from government, which is to say let the poor remain poor while we thrive on their powerlessness. It is not a shock that after the pandemic there will be a lot of job opportunities available to the masses, the capitalists have left the country as we speak. We are currently living in a normlessness state.

We are alienated from our livelihoods, selves by the capitalists who claim to be with us and for us as they are putting on masks and left the masses to wash their hands on sanitisers.

The question therefore is who said the pandemic is only perpetuated by dirty hands? Well I was left traumatised some several days ago when I approached banks, big shops and found long queues and saw the shop assistants in some shops now having now to work in the health spectrum, spraying people and I asked myself who said the virus can only be caught by hand.

Nonetheless I kept quiet I also let them spray my hands for I didn’t want to cause commotion. Now there is a lot of time taken in the service centres due to lack of education and clinical practices. The sanitisers are dangerous to human, but capitalists keep on spraying the vast of the population. What message are we sending to the people? Are we saying that is it good let them die or?

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