‘MY GIFT TO KING REJECTED’
MBABANE -“Bebangibamba ngiyotfula daladi eNgwenyameni”!
This is how Lucky Mafu described a scenario he claims to have experienced when he went to present His Majesty King Mswati III with a 510-metre long roll of fence on the Tuesday after Good Friday when pastors had gone to bid their Majesties farewell.
Mafu, who was narrating his story to this publication, stated that he had tried about seven times to get an audience with the King.
He claimed that the circumstances that unfolded when he was stopped did not go down well with him, especially because according to his knowledge, one could present the King with anything.
Allowed
Mafu claimed he was stopped by Bishop Samson Hlatjwako, who stated that such gifts were not allowed in royalty. He further alleged that Hlatjwako even suggested that he should have brought rice or beans instead. He stated that he was a businessman who dealt with making and installing fences in different places.
He mentioned that his only wish was to present the King with what he believed were products of his talent. Mafu further claimed that he was made to look like a lunatic, when he was sound.
He further claimed that there were other people who manhandled him while forcing him out but later came to negotiate prices of the fence at E300 so to give him cash instead.
Narrating about his idea of presenting the King with the fence as a gift, he said he believed that the head of State had cattle fields which needed that very same fence.
He said what worried him was that there were many emaSwati who wanted to bring gifts to the King and were made to believe they were free to bring anything, when that was not the case, according to him. “They should make a list of what to bring and not to at once,” added Mafu. He alleged that after being forced out, he came across Deputy Prime Minister Themba Masuku, who he narrated his story of rejection to.
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