GOVT SHOOTING ITSELF IN FOOT

Sir,

As a country we need to value and prioritise education. In the realm of the spirit, I envisage a Kingdom of Eswatini where highly educated and skilled people lead each ministry. PhD holders should be made principal secretaries as they are capable of objective higher order decision-making processes, as their decision making will most often be informed by research, not ‘stomach politics’. In a nutshell, educated people have the capacity to fix the economy. There is too much dead wood in the civil service and those who have reached 60 years must retire and go home please! These are the people collapsing and plunging our economy, while young graduates with fresh minds and innovative skills are languishing in poverty at home.

Recover

How does government hope to recover study loans if graduates are not absorbed into the world of work, as a result of pensionable people hogging work positions? These people are benefiting twice through their monthly pension salaries, and the contractual salaries from work contracts government has re-engaged them on, while qualified young graduates get wasted at home.

Prosper

Why is government shooting itself in the foot? How do we expect the young generation to prosper, marry, pay lobola for their wives, produce children, and build themselves homes, how will they support the children they give birth to if their positions are being held up by people whose children are already employed? This is the reason there is so much moral decay in the country including crime, prostitution, bribery, nepotism, spread of HIV, abortion, corruption, you name them.

Performance

Furthermore, the government machinery is malfunctioning as a result of people in its payroll, yet their job descriptions are only known to themselves. We need performance monitoring tools as of yesterday, and there is urgent need to uproot the dead wood. Some civil servants are such a shame when it comes to service delivery, especially the pensioners! Let’s face this problem head-on and eradicate for the benefit of the country as a whole. We can’t go on like this.  

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