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DISAPPOINTED BY A RELAXED GOVERNMENT

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Sir,

I decided to write this because my age-mates are seemingly relaxed about what is going around them. They are so relaxed about how our parents are treated because they are so busy trying to be liberal.


I am a boy of 17 years of age, I am from Kubuta but currently residing in Matsapha.
As a constituent, I am in great pain after what I have seen and experienced as a young boy. Our parents wake up as early as 4am to get to work on time at their jobs in the industrial companies around Matsapha.


I understand that some of those reading this are still not getting my message.
I want to urge my fellow youth not to believe all the messages that come to them especially from our government, which has proven time and again that it doesn’t care about our mothers.


Relentlessly


I would like the youth to open their eyes, we should support our parents relentlessly, the unions and all those doing the best to keep jobs for our parents so that they can make a significant living, put bread on the tables and keep us in schools.
The country we are living in today is not democratic despite what we are made to believe.


I understand that we gained our independence in 1968, but sadly we haven’t done much with it, or as much as we could have.
We are experiencing no democratic peaceful marches and anyone doing that is said to be breaking the law and is suppressed.
I therefore urge you guys to open your eyes and fight for a better peaceful place for your coming generations. We have to fight for:
All people subjected equally to the privileges and penalties of the law.
The people are ruled by laws and not by individuals. (both the judiciary and the executive are to act only according to law rather than according to their own beliefs of what justice is)


Visible


The law shall be visible, clear, and relatively stable. Due process must be afforded to all those before the law I then urge that government makes AGOA the front burning issue because here in Swaziland we do not have grievance debates where we can verbalise this.


A large number of our parents who were employed by Tex Ray will now be job hunting if not at home feeding on cow dung as the country has failed to keep AGOA.
I understand very much that we lost AGOA because we are not willing to simply do what is required of us.

Sicelo Hlanze

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