IS OUR SUFFERING AMUSING?

I hear our government is preparing to celebrate 50/50 next year.

Well 50 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. Now let me tell government about the situation in our country. I am telling it because I am assuming that it does not know. 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. So I will gladly show it the true picture of our country for free because I love it very much. There are no drugs in government hospitals; we wait for six to 10 hours in queues just to see a nurse and wait another two to five hours to see a doctor.

Sometimes you wait the whole day only to be told to come back tomorrow. Even after waiting for so long and finally seeing the doctor, she/he’s going to prescribe medicine that the hospital doesn’t have. And the only thing you’ll get from the hospital pharmacist is directions to the nearest pharmacy. So please help me here, what is there to celebrate. Hospital beds are full of sick and hopeless people, and doctors have nothing to offer them. The only medicine we have in abundance in Swaziland besides panado is religion/faith. We pray so hard not because we are righteous but because that’s the only hope we have. People are dying but government will utilise money to celebrate. Are our lives that worthless? 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. 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, s/he 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 the armed 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. That’s why come August, they cram into trucks like sardines because the only way to a great meal is through cultural events. I’m sure those children do not go there because they love the country but it’s their way of escaping their reality. They wish the cultural events could be two weeks long or even a month only because they are guaranteed three good meals a day. Some only get to taste bread during those few days. Once again I’ll ask, what are we celebrating? Is the poverty of the people a spectacle worth to be aired for all to see?
Let us look at civil servants: there are armed forces who get free food, uniform, electricity, housing and water.

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