PRISON FAILED TO BREAK ME - THULANI MASEKO

MANZINI – “Prison failed to break me and I still stand firm on my beliefs,” said released Human Rights lawyer Thulani Maseko.

 Maseko, who was addressing  a thanksgiving prayer held in his honour at the Lutheran Church yesterday evening, said he had nothing much to say on his prison experience. The event was hosted by the Coalition of Concerned Churches.

He said the fundamental thing he learnt while behind bars was that one never succumbs to prison life.

Lonely

“From the very day you enter that lonely place, you need to strengthen your resolve and make sure that you do not change your beliefs as well as protect your dignity,” Maseko said.

He said it was important that when your oppressors think you were dead, you then rise up and say the very thing you had been ‘killed’ for.
He mentioned that since his release, he had heard numerous people saying that the Judiciary had been cleansed by the removal of Ramodibedi and he wondered how?

 “Nothing has changed in this country,” said Maseko.
He said while in prison he had enough time to think about the decisions he had made and had two questions which he pondered on.
 “We need to ask ourselves where we are in Swaziland today and once we understand where we are, we need to know where we want to go from here,” he said.

He said this when explaining that he had no time to dwell on his past; and his stay in prison was exactly that - the past.
 “All is well with my soul,  even when I stood before that man they called a judge on July 25, 2014, I said that to suffer in the manner that I did was an achievement.”

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