PLEASE SET HER FREE ASAP, OTHERS LIKE HER

Sir,

I wrote in regards to the poor soul who has been subjected to 15 years behind bars needlessly for something as minor and miniscule as being caught with dagga. And I can’t think of any issue in need of contact highlighting more than using your platform to write about such an innocent soul and the countless like her until she’s set free and dagga legalised.

The unnecessary sentences bestowed on such souls are an abomination, grotesque and flies in the face of all human decency. Even if possession of such a plant was still illegal, in a humane, human rights respecting society, how does one justify sentencing a poor lady to 15 years behind bars.

Crimes

That’s paramount to crimes against humanity. A slap on the wrist without any need for time served outside of the time one spends prior to getting an audience with the seating judge is punishment enough regardless of the transgression one has committed. And what’s the logic of making an example of poor people who are victims of circumstances and are poverty stricken anyways, because I bet if she was caucasian she wouldn’t have spent 15 minutes in jail. 

And now melanated people aren’t safe from mass incarceration and over policing even in Africa as per the agenda of imperialists. And what’s the point of still keeping such oppressive laws inherited from Britain when even them have moved on. 

And such laws were passed onto Africa in order to deny people any economic advantages having rigged the global socio-economic order to their benefit only. So it’s time to legalise the plant already.

Rot

And that’s how deep-rooted the rot is in a captured society and institutions, now even in predominantly black Africa, black bodies aren’t safe from systematic abuse, unnecessary prosecution, mass incarceration, over policing, trauma and racism as per the imperialists agenda of making sure no place in the world is safe for poor melanated people. So no, those of us with clear, unbiased consciousness must come out, rebuke and totally condemn such miscarriage of justice in the harshest of terms. 

And any member of society still gloating about political expediency or apathy it is time they get a wakeup call. Eswatini shouldn’t be allowed to become a police State. It’s time to do politics since politics is doing us now.

This is the life we are confronted with; with the powerful feasting on the meek and defenseless and being complacent, silent, oblivious is legitimacy. As the saying goes, ‘when the righteousness are in authority the masses rejoice’. 

Rejoice

And there’s nothing to rejoice about with such abomination. And do African leaders even ask themselves why black people are now leaving the west in droves and moving to Africa en-masse? And it would be greatly appreciated if African media houses would start writing about such brutality, trauma and injustices for a change, not the broad western romanticism. The African masses can’t be docile sheep in spite of such while the supposed custodians are seduced and bamboozled with diplomacy. 

As the saying goes, ‘for evil to continue, good people need not do anything about it’. So we are on our own. So please if you can help free that innocent soul, and the countless more like her, that would be greatly appreciated.

Siyincaba

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