BREEDING DANGEROUS GENERATION

Sir,

When growing up many decades ago, I always had a dream that one day when I am a fully grown man I shall have cars, businesses, wife, children and take them on vacation to Jamaica and hang around with black beautiful velvet skinned chicks and smoke a very strong cigar and come back home to my businesses very refreshed.

But this was a dream of course, and none of my dreams was ever realised instead, I got stuck in employment with a very pathetic salary. Needless to say there were a lot of people like me who had their own dreams, but were all shattered as they grew up.

CHILDREN’S DREAM
I have since come to terms and realised that our children also have dreams of their own which are far different from ours as their parents. My only son “Sicubhosengwenya” was turned away at some very respectable office by a receptionist who told him in the face that there was no bursary for him to further his studies at tertiary overseas regardless of the fact that the course he wanted to do is not offered in this country.

I then sat down to think about how many others have been turned away by the receptionist. After paying my taxes without fail, my son could not get help at all. I sat down to think about the University of Eswatini (UNESWA) students who were told in the face that their scholarship will not be paid yet their names were listed among the other beneficiaries, and then comes someone who just woke up and simply said it was human error”.

I thought about these children and obviously some of them are from underprivileged backgrounds and definitely were the only hope for their families in the near future but there you are ‘human error’ just like that.

This is very inhumane. But then again we know that this government is very cruel and there is nothing strange about the painful trauma these students were subjected to and nobody cares at all. In Eswatini when a member of a family goes to university to acquire some skills, there is always hope for that family that it will survive, but now  the government of the day is killing those hopes, and you ask yourself really what is it building in these youngsters?

seniorS won’t last
A very angry generation is being slowly raised. It is a fact that we the senior generation won’t last for ever, but our children have a duty to take the country forward, but will they be able to take it forward if they are treated in this manner? Are we not making animals and monsters out of them? The spirit of vengeance is instilled in them because they will never forget the treatment they received.

We are facing a huge economy decline. Are we telling these students to turn to crime or prostitution for survival? Why are we really playing with their lives? The worse and painful thing is that it is now known who the scholarships are reserved for. There are some very powerful untouchables who are now abusing their powers to sleep with our children so that they can be granted scholarships.

But surely one day this is going to haunt them. These perpetrators know themselves. I have watched how the old American actor Bill Cosby is now caught up with his nefarious past and it is painful. Watch the space. I can only predict that this state of affairs will surely come back to haunt the perpetrators and their families because Eswatini will never be the same with the coming generation.

These youngsters who have been abused will one day stand up and be brave enough to come out clear and tell the world that “they were abused by these powerful untouchables” hence they should face the might of the law at their old age just like the American Actor never knew that he is using a long rope to hang himself. One day Eswatini will change.

The coming generation will never be as cool as we are. All the atrocities committed will one day come out.
I spared a thought about the thousands of graduates who are roaming the streets and begging for at least security jobs or shop assistants jobs? And I know exactly that one day our country shall pay for having neglected them. Some of those perpetrators will still be alive and they will say “washo Khokhumncadvo”.

Khokhumncadvo Dlamini
Ka- Zondwako (Ebutsisni) 76481668

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