Times Of Swaziland: LIFE IS HARD IN ESWATINI

LIFE IS HARD IN ESWATINI
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The Editor on 30/06/2020 23:37:00


Sir,
Fifty two years of independence is a milestone indeed worth to be celebrated but
if I may ask, what exactly is there to show that indeed we are blessed as a
nation?
Well, maybe for some there is a lot to celebrate but has government taken a
moment and looked around it?
There is nothing but pain and sorrow. In case it has not noticed; our health
system is in tatters, the education system is bonkers and everything in stores
have gone up but we are still the same.
Worship
Life is hard in the country unless one gets closer to certain individuals.
Government has made itself the alpha and omega of riches in this country so
everyone has to worship it to have a taste.
Hospital beds are full of sick people and doctors have nothing to offer them.
The only medicine we have in abundance in the country besides panado is
religion. We pray hard not because we are righteous but because that’s the
only hope we have.
As a result of free primary education in the country, most children are now at
school and they actually get an escape from their reality.
Poverty
The only meal they are guaranteed for the day is the one in schools because
their homes are nothing but extreme poverty.
We are supposed to tell those children that education is the key when we know
very well that for one to succeed, he/she must get closer to certain
individuals.
We tell them that even though what we should be telling them is to go steal five
cows and give them to the fat cats in security forces if they are male or sleep
with the fat cats if they are female to get a job. But the children already know
that.
Forces
Let us look at civil servants: there are armed forces who get free food,
uniform, electricity, housing and water. On the other hand there are teachers,
who have the future of the country in their hands every day; they have the power
to make or break the country’s future but they are underpaid, not housed or
are housed in dilapidated dumps, they have no uniform allowance, no free
electricity, no free food and no free water.
All I’m saying is that we are poor, dying and hopeless.
Palesa Dlamini