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FIRST LESSON FOR OUR MPS

10/10/2018 07:43:00 The Editor

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While our members of Parliament-to-be were getting a lecture on what it means to be a politician, South Africa provided the perfect example by calling for a tainted finance minister to resign and President Cyril Ramaphosa ensured he did just that.

This is a clear demonstration that the new SA Government has adopted a zero tolerance on corruption or any acts that may harm the integrity of the country’s leadership; particularly from a country trying to cleanse itself from an era decorated with reports of State capture that prompted the probe that has come to haunt former SA Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene.

Eswatini has challenges of her own with regard to the scourge of corruption, and it calls for decisive and swift action by the leadership of this country if we are to ever get to realise a recovery of our economy.

Corruption has played a significant part in contributing to the deteriorating state of our economy, as it systematically dismantled the culture of transparency, accountability, integrity, humanity, justice and equality, among other attributes necessary to guarantee good governance.

This explains why we have a government that cannot pay E6 396 for 26 graves for paupers and not a single minister gets to be punished for this embarrassing state of affairs that has affected numerous sectors most embarrassingly.

Members of the public cannot afford to tolerate this or leave the solution entirely in the hands of the new politicians.
Everybody has to raise the alarm and see to it that any action that is detrimental to the well being of the people and the country’s national resources, is nipped in the bud.

As they prepare to assume their roles, the new legislators ought to remember the challenge posed by His Majesty the King when opening Parliament this year. He said we should ‘upscale the fight against corruption, the enemy of development.’

Upscale means getting the Anti Corruption Commission up and running and seeing to it that the necessary legislation to make its work more effective, is put in place as soon as their first order of business. Or better still, it means we must call on all the legislators who paved their way to Parliament through corrupt means, to save themselves from the upcoming scandals by doing a Nhlanhla Nene special and RESIGN!