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PLEASE DEFEND PM FROM POLITICAL ATTACKS - JOY

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NDZINGENI – Prime Minister (PM) Sibusiso Barnabas Dlamini’s wife, Joy, has requested Ndzingeni residents to defend her husband from political attacks and critics.


Addressing close to 3 000 residents who had gathered at the Ndzingeni Inkhundla, Joy described the PM as a gift from God.
Joy was called by the PM to deliver a speech to introduce herself to the Ndzingeni folk. Before addressing the crowd, Joy opened her speech by singing a song titled, ‘Ngegama lakho Jesu’.


She sang for the residents who, however, joined in the hymn – praising the Lord.
“With my humbleness, I was very happy when he told me to accompany him to Ndzingeni. This is because Ndzingeni is in my heart, I love this place. God gave me a gift – the PM.


“I have learnt a lot from him since we met. He is not mine alone but he is also yours. I therefore request to offer him support as he does his duties to serve the country as PM. Please defend him whenever they attack and criticise him while in the line of duty,” Joy said.


Joy was on Saturday introduced to the residents by the PM. He told the residents that they should know his wife so that they can be able to identify her when she walks around.
The PM’s visit to the constituency also saw elderly people and residents receiving free treatment and medication from doctors of the Taiwan Medical Mission.


Elderly people received blankets and t-shirts that were donated by Leo Garments. The event was attended by 10 ministers plus Members of Parliament. The PM is currently constructing a house at his parental home in Ndzingeni.
 This is where Joy said she would like to settle and stay.

Comments (4 posted):

Nhlanganiso Dlamini. Lobamba. on 21/07/2014 16:37:32
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I was shocked to read the Prime Minister's wife's plea to residents that they should defend her husband from political attacks and critics. Joy opened her speech by singing a song titled, ‘Ngegama lakho Jesu’, whatever that meant! In my view God the father, and his Son should not be manipulated to advance any agenda. Before this woman dared made such statements, she must caution Sibusiso to renounce violence against political opponents, and desist from being hostile to independent thinkers. She must guide the prime minister on the straight and narrow path of dismantling an unjust system which has reduced the people of Swaziland into conquests. She must privately alert him of the dangers of losing AGOA! Joy must tell him that it is in the interests of peace and stability, that he unban political formations. This woman would have made sense if she called upon her husband to free all who have been imprisoned, or exiled for their opposition to this inhumane system of governance. Joy should steer her husband to the right path whereby he would guarantee free political activity so that people may decide who will govern them. Innocent people like Sipho Jele died in police custody for wearing a tee-shirt. Too many have suffered for the love of freedom in Swaziland. Joy owes it to their widows, to their orphans, to their mothers and to their fathers who have grieved and wept for them by telling the Prime Minister the truth, and not flatter him.
douglas stewart. Caracas. Venezuela on 21/07/2014 17:46:54
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I am a former State Advocate, and can understand where your Prime Minister's wife, Joy comes from with her wailings. Instead of advising her husband against the rampant and gross violations of human rights, internally she condemns the victims as law-breakers. She needs to be schooled on just and unjust laws, and those that need to be obeyed and those that need to be broken. Joy might as well ask: "How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?" She needs to be told that the answer lies in the fact that there are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. The Prime Minister's wife has to agree with St. Augustine that "an unjust law is no law at all." She might probably wonder, what is the difference between the two? How does one determine whether a law is just or unjust? For her own information a just law is a man made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. For her understanding to put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law. Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust. Hopefully after this short lesson, Joy would tread carefully before uttering unguided statements that her husband should be above constructive criticism.
Jabulisile Dlamini on 21/07/2014 17:58:28
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The Prime Minister's wife defense of her husband from political attacks is unwarranted. The same publication runs a story that diarrhoea outbreak claims 3 more lives, a smothering indicator of an airtight cage of poverty engulfing the masses in the midst of a a small minority of affluent fat cats. Instead of stifling free speech as an attack on her husband, Joy should be actively involved in poverty alleviation programs to ensure that this ailment in a country like Swaziland does not necessarily kill children.
Calisile Dlakadla on 22/07/2014 11:50:23
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She can try to defend her husband this Mom Joy,our husbands are hungry because this greedy man of urs so akayeke kuba ngubhela kwesakhe. Increase people's money . Maybe they are able to reduce the rate of poverty so nidla timali mahhala nodwa

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