BUYING FIRST WORLD STATUS

Sir,

Five years are left and Swaziland is still far from achieving her vision and money can only get us so far, more especially when it is not being piped into the right directions.

Within the last couple of years we’ve seen close to five new hotels going under construction, the largest of which by the State, a State struggling to bridge the gap between the rich and poor. The number of unemployed youth today is alarming for a country so small.

The country can barely fill the already existing hotels on a daily basis; it is irrational thinking to provide a service for a non-existent market, rather find a means to increase the amount of tourism and create a demand for these hotels, which in my view are the last place tourists would appreciate staying when coming to a country like Swaziland with amazing nature reserves in which they could stay.

Money is constantly being piped into the wrong places and over the course of the last month we saw several articles talking of how tenders were awarded to undeserving candidates, an evident sign of corruption.
There is an unfair distribution of resources with more and more money going towards government spending and an unacceptable small percentage going towards the elderly grants, the more deserving of State funding. The State needs to stop trying to look like a First World country and focus more on statistically being a First World country, because you can have the most amazing infrastructure from great internet to tarred roads all throughout the country and world knows five-star hotels, but if people cannot access and enjoy all these developments, they hold no purpose.

If the State continues to focus on looking like a First World country, only a small percentage of the country will reach the First World and the rest shall continue living in poverty, suffering from high taxation on our income and taxation on necessary goods like electricity, all of which shall only go to sustaining the lifestyles of the wealthy and little of which would come back to us.
Not only are we trying to buy the First World status; we can’t even afford to do so, therefore we get other countries to help us; so not only will we not reach the First World, we’ll find ourselves slaving to pay off the State’s debts, debts we never asked for.

The State needs to step back and take a look at where they are leading us too, and then go back to the drawing board. We cannot afford to be mismanaging and unequally distributing the limited resources we have.

Exile

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