AMBROSE NOT A GOD

Sir,

Please allow me to highlight that the Prime Minister, Ambrose Dlamini, is not a god to invest so much expectations on him.
As a country, the Kingdom of Eswatini, we have been granted a new prime minister by the King and I believe that in appointing Dlamini, the King did not only consider his genealogy but the qualities and characteristics of a prime minister.

I also believe that being a good leader requires much of hard work than just being appointed and this is the reason the world has few ‘real’ leaders. We do not know if Dlamini is special nor we know what he has for us a country, but he is the only one who will know that he is capable when the time is right.
What I can promise is that, he is going to be knocked down and he will have to get up, in those fights he will know if he has the right thing. In all these, he has to work hard or he will further destroy the country.

Currently, we have many problems and our problems escalate every day.
There are so many critics over the internet against the King, so much propaganda, low education status, equity and equality imbalances, low economic status, suspicions about money wastage and misuse; I mean a lot of problems.

Teachers and nurses are crying out loud and nobody is listening to them. University students are not left out in the equation. There is a child who is sitting in a wheelchair because of police brutality at the University of Eswatini.
We cannot forget Maxwell Dlamini who got arrested for defending human rights. It seems as if we deem so much of a better life and turn a blind eye on how we can achieve it.

What is most painful is that these problems were created by us and by the people we trusted but we do not give up expecting the best from other people.
We hope that others have to come and save us from all the mess we make while we continue making more. I wonder if the people who fought/negotiated for our freedom wanted us to have this kind of a ‘freedom’.

Maybe they wanted much better than this and they are not happy where they are. Let us go back, not to emasikweni, but to the basics; how things started, what were the main goals and intentions and what are the necessities to accomplish our own goals.

Colleen Hlanze

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