WE ARE ALL TIRED!

Sir,

I don’t mean to put my name in the spotlight but I believe there was a need for someone to sit down and compare the past and future. Well, to me it has soon turned out to be a denial period where one keeps on bargaining with his or her colleagues on the future of Eswatini. I see the future bringing more of suppression to all emaSwati. I see more aggression and vandalism at tertiary institutions, I see workers losing it too because they are continuously suppressed. We are just waiting for the right Moses to take us through the red sea to the promise land. The literate used to say ‘education is the key to success’. Maybe for the past years it was, but currently some few individuals are changing the locks while most of us still remain with the wrong keys. More and more doors are being closed for many while at the same time opening more wider for a few.

Unemployed

Let’s say graduates have graduated from being ‘illiterate unemployed citizens’ to ‘literate unemployed citizens’. To me it feels like a thorn piercing the bottom of my heart when I see the learned crowded in Chinese shops, working more than eight hours a day trying to put food on the table. One can relate this pain and anger to a tiger confined and starved for a week. You never expect calmness from someone who has been deprived opportunities.

Worse is the issue of allowances and to come clean, I am within those caught within a rock and a hard place. Imagine being taught how to swim in a small dam but then thrown into the deep end and told to swim out. It’s the same as what is called education for all but no allowances at the end. Students at tertiary institutions are never rebellious but they are taught to be, being given empty promises and to capitalise on that, excuses, of which I believe are just lame, are used. At the same time power is used to conquer the already helpless. If I may ask, is there a need to use an axe to cut a tomato tree? If the superiors say the inferior should blend education with hard work to be the next big guns, I see it as just a fairytale.

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