NO KIDS FOR CORRECTIONAL RECRUITS!

MBABANE –Throngs of aspiring warders failed to get jobs at His Majesty’s Correctional Services (HMCS) because they had children back home.

As a result, they did not qualify to join the male youths known as Ingatja in cutting the sacred shrub Lusekwane.
They were unfit to join the Ingatja because they had children sired before marriage; rendering them ineligible to cut Lusekwane.
More than 200 aspirants did not make the cut while 100 job seekers considered sexually pure, in terms Swazi culture, joined the department.
They even participated in this year’s cutting of the shrub.

Only unmarried male youths with no children qualify to cut the shrub under the light of the full moon.
These boys place the shrub or lusekwane branches in the national cattle byre.

The elders weave these branches in between poles of the inhlambelo, a private sanctuary for the King.
Isaiah Mzuthini Ntshangase, the Commissioner General, confirmed that priority was given to unmarried young men who had not sired children.
He said young men were given priority because the job recruitment exercise was conducted at a time when the nation was looking forward to the country’s supreme ceremony known as Incwala.

“We discovered that there were many young men who had children, as much as there were too many who did not have them. Finally, we recruited those who did not have children because we wanted them to perform a very significant national duty,” he said.

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