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TOUGH CHALLENGE FOR NEW MPS

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Sir,

As we embark on the all-important election of our new Legislature, it is important to pray and hope that the new Members of Parliament will have what it takes to properly serve the electorate.

The new government will surely have their work cut out for them, what with the self-inflicted serious liquidity problems that are seemingly worsening by the day.
The incoming government will inherit a myriad of self-created problems.


The new government must realise that it cannot continue to spend money that it does not have on vanity projects. It must realise that the continued abdication of responsibility on service delivery is not sustainable. It must realise that endemic high unemployment rates, particularly among the youth, cannot be allowed to continue unabated. It must realise that unless it revisits the country’s priorities and starts spending money on areas that will improve the lives of the citizenry, it will join the rest of their predecessors as the architects of our misfortunes.


What we need is a government that will do the following:
l Honestly serve the suffering masses who need proper health care; education; jobs and basic services such as access to clean water.
l Create an enabling environment to woe FDI, thereby creating much needed jobs.
l Improve the image of the country in terms of good governance; independence of the Judiciary and the Legislature itself.


l Bravely cut down on wasteful expenditure in the form of egoistic projects that add no value to the life of the ordinary people.
l Invest in infrastructure projects that will improve the welfare of the people such as dams; roads and provision of clean water and sanitation services.
The new government must realise that in the global space, the rest of the countries are competing for very limited resources and it is, therefore, important to understand that what matters is not how we see ourselves, but rather how the rest of the outside world sees us.

Perception is a very important dynamic out there! We need to identify, understand and appreciate our weaknesses and strengths; make every effort to resolve our weaknesses and enhance our strengths. The new government must understand that it would have to work even harder than their counterparts in sub-Saharan Africa because of the perceptions out there and prove the critics of our political system wrong.

The perennial poor performance or weakness of previous Tinkhundla governments only helps to bolster the claims by opponents of the Tinkhundla system that it is a dysfunctional system, it is like your own players in a football team consistently scoring own goals but hoping that the fans will have a perception that they are a good team, it does not work like that.


My prayer is that the new government will have the humility, courage, resolve and vision that we so much need. They should for a moment forget about their own personal needs and put the needs of the nation first.

Hanger
MHLUME

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