POLITICIANS PROMISE BUT NEVER DELIVER

Sir,

My points are meant to lambast and chastise the country’s politicians who promise but never deliver. Eswatini is comprised of inhabitants who lack nothing but honesty and being proactive.

This makes their allegiance questionable. There is no use perambulating in the outskirts of veracity about the modus operandi utilised by our prospective politicians during election campaigns.

They lied to the people of Eswatini, some even bought votes, forging their paths to Parliament and successfully booking their way to earning big bucks. Luckily for them and unfortunately for the law, they were successful. The people of Eswatini are holding onto loose ropes of hope and are keeping their fingers crossed that things will be better this term than previously. The time for proactive governance is now.

Everyone in government’s hierarchy has been inaugurated and assigned to their offices. All talk of good governance, economic resuscitation promises and uprooting corruption in higher offices must materialise; otherwise the epoch of false promises will continue to haunt the nation.

As always, the public will keep records of the promises made by the incumbents instated to lead paramount offices in the land, not sparing the PM and his Cabinet. We were downgraded together with the SA economy to junk status and those are imported problems which are unavoidable. We just have to maximise our resourceful capacities and work towards radical and meaningful development.

Many ministries constantly underperformed under the leadership of the previous Parliament and Cabinet. These include the Ministries of Works, Education and ICT. Corruption in higher offices has been a norm; the abuse of government property and funds hit hard on taxpayers’ pockets and the economy slumped to its lowest levels.

There was prevalence of improper protocols and defying gazetted national procurement procedure was a norm. The government operated synonymously with a captured State.

Captured

 In fact, many ministries were captured and were serving personal interests of individuals. The media oppression and intimidation was the centre of all interests. We had journalists forced to vacate their offices and worked in other countries while reporting national issues.

This painted a bleak picture about the nation.
During the tenure of the previous parliamentarians, we had enough evidence not to re-elect them into office. They vehemently accepted failure while disgracefully serving the nation under oath. Under achievements in diverse fields of the economy and poor social responsibility as well as poor service delivery continuously lingered on.

Not forgetting to mention that the Education Ministry became the black sheep of the land. Teaching conditions dilapidated to unimaginably low standards.
The level of education was never improved, in fact it was neglected. The livelihood and future of people is dependent on the success of the education system of the land. The University of Eswatini caught the eyes of outsiders, Patrice Motsepe.

The condition of the institution is abhorring and worrisome. Motsepe donated E10 million towards the university’s development and maintenance. We still hope to see fruitful use of the donation.
We have accepted that, as a people, knowing and believing that those bestowed with the highest decisions will continue to relish partially serving us with undemocratic choices while it lasts.

A practical advice to the current leadership pertaining to the preservation of a state of calm and tranquility among the already restless workforce rests with improving service delivery, shortening the pay differences between political leaders and workers on the ground.
That includes radical measures of either increasing workers’ salaries as per their demands or reducing politicians’ salaries to reduce the already high differences between the poor and the rich. And also implementing wiser prioritisation strategies. At the moment it looks like the Government of Eswatini’s respective departments are not properly coordinated, they are not in unison.

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