VICTIMS OF OUR OWN CREATION

Sir,

Just like any other concerned citizen of this country about the current state of affairs, bordering on governance and the economic crises we find ourselves in as a country, I would like to make a personal contribution.

The principle of this life is that ‘we reap what we sow’ and there is no way to escape from this fact. Maybe this is the time we do a national introspection to determine whether we are not victims of our own creation. Once we have done that then we do the noble thing of putting things right by unashamedly facing and confronting our blunders.

I am worried that with the current frenzy about democratisation in Africa and Swaziland, in particular, we may be of the illusion that democracy will fix it all. We seem to ignore that it is the people who make democracy work. So it is illusory to assume and believe that multiparty democracy has a fix it all solution for Swaziland.

Those who have not studied democracy in Africa are actually looking forward to the implementation of this system that will suddenly eradicate HIV, create jobs as if there is no unemployment in the so called real democracies; cultivate the plenty of land that lies idle in our rural communities just because we have chosen town life as civilised and educated people.

Ethical leadership and sacrificial leadership are used interchangeably; the latter understood to mean the kind of leadership which ‘involves preferring the needs of others above one’s own ambition for success and comfort’. Politicians who come from conditions of poverty face many challenges of a personal nature themselves.

Political leadership has shifted dramatically from being characterised by sacrifice and suffering to political leadership as a position of privilege and wealth. This dramatic shift brings with it pressures to create wealth for a sustainable retirement in a relatively short period of time.

Until we develop and create such a crop of leadership that will see their role as that of servanthood in Swaziland, I do not see any sanity in changing this current government only to have a team of their kind replace them.
 
S M Fuzelihle.

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