STOP INSULTING EACH OTHER, SIBONGILE MAZIBUKO URGES POLITICAL PARTIES

MANZINI – The purported infighting among political formations is one of the issues that were addressed by various speakers yesterday during a meeting organised by the Political Party Assembly (PPA).

The PPA Chairperson, Sibongile Mazibuko, urged all political activists to stop insulting each other on social media. She said beginning from yesterday, all activists should reprimand each other from hurling insults at each other on social media. She said in that way they would be able to isolate the other group that often went on social media using fake accounts. She also called for unity within all the political parties. She said from yesterday, political parties, were now one under the name simagamaga, which means solid together. Mazibuko added that they were aware of people who joined the political parties in order to cause division. She said as leaders of the political parties, they would deal with those. She further called upon all activists to go out there and do all possible to put the country into a standstill until democracy was attained.

Elections

She said as political parties, they were still going far with the issue of the arrested MPs. She said they wanted to go to the 2023 elections with the arrested MPs released from prison. “We shall fight everywhere,” said Mazibuko. She also called for multiparty elections in 2023. Mazibuko was speaking during the mass democratic movements meeting yesterday at the SNAT Centre. She said for now, all political parties should be calling for multiparty elections in 2023, not the current Tinkhundla System of elections. She said the reason was that they wanted a multiparty democracy. She said in case they did not win in that call, they would join the Tinkhundla elections to go to Parliament and cause disruption. Mazibuko said as PPA, they would draft an action plan and map as to how the different political parties under the PPA banner would go out to mobilise in the different tinkhundla centres all over the country.

Meanwhile, Swaziland Liberation Movement (SWALIMO) Deputy Secretary General (DSG) Gift Dlamini said his party was not necessarily supporting the tinkhundla elections, but if their efforts to stop them were futile, they would join the elections  for one purpose, to cause disruptions within Parliament. He said SWALIMO would be going to all the 59 constituencies to mobilise. He said his party now had a well-written strategy to do this, which required all the political parties to play a part. He said there was one particular part that could be played by SWALIMO members and if that part could be played well, there would be a difference.

Meanwhile, Bishop Mpendulo Nkambule called for unity among the pro-democracy movement.  He referred his remarks to the Bible scripture where people were building a tower, which they intended to reach heaven with it. The story is found in the book of Genesis 11 verse 1-11 and the tower that the people wanted to build was a tower of Babel. However, in the Bible, it was stated that God after seeing that the people were getting closer to heaven, confused them by making them speak different languages hence they could not continue with their mission of building the tower. Similarly, Bishop Nkambule said if the pro-democracy movement was united, they would achieve their goal which was the liberation for Eswatini.

Unity

Nkambule said there was power in unity and even God himself feared unity. “God saw that the people were united and they were in one accord,” said Nkambule. The bishop who is also a member of SWALIMO, said one thing that the enemy of the people was scared of was their unity. Nkambule said the disunity between the political parties was systematic and it was planted by certain agents within the parties. He said the circulating news that the political parties were fighting each other was not true. He further said he was sending a strong message to the authorities that a country could never be ruled by the blood of people. “The people’s blood is not animal blood,” said Nkambule. He said if one killed people, one day those people would turn and say enough is enough and then they would retaliate.

The bishop urged all political parties to unite around one purpose, which was for a free and democratic Eswatini not just for the current generation but for the future generations. He said even if the ruling regime decided to kill all pro-democracy activists, they would not silence their voices because it was a voice of truth and voice of authority. “We shall never die and our message should never be silenced,” said Nkambule. The man of the cloth further condemned police brutality. Nkambule said in the spiritual realm, the kingdom was over. He said he speaking as a prophet; he read in the spiritual realm and he saw the famous writing on the wall which said mene, mene, tekel, parsin.  In the Bible, the writing on the wall, interpreted by Daniel to mean that God had weighed Belshazzar and his kingdom and had found them wanting, and would destroy them: (Daniel. 5:25).

He urged the people to pray for the country.  He said initially, they were rejecting the Tinkhundla elections but if they continued, political parties should participate in order to cause disruptions within. “We will collapse the system from within,” added the bishop. He encouraged the pro-democracy movement to fight on as they were fighting a good fight and it was God’s will as God want people to be free. He concluded his presentation by shouting ‘power to the people!’

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