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Sir,

As we march towards the future, it is imperative that we take stock of where we are coming from and where we are going. In my view, we are actually moving away from First World status and moving deeper into the bottom end of Third World countries. This judgement is based on the inability of our government to be proactive on issues that matter the most. Ours is indeed a very, very sad situation. After 54 years of independence, our country has dismally failed to rectify our national needs when it comes to a lot of things, instead government found it appropriate that the country should rely on external sources for its survival.

The question is what exactly makes our government and leaders so ineffective when it comes to implementing projects that will benefit the entire country? Surely as a nation we deserve much better than this mediocre service that we are getting.

How will our government drive economic growth after the pandemic has been dealt with? This I ask because of the way it is handling the threat of the current political unrest. Making statements that incite violence is not what the country needs, as this only adds fuel to an already silent but raging fire.

Surely our leaders known that there are much better ways to handle this situation. We are known for telling the world that we are a country that solves its issues through dialogue; well it is time we practiced what we preached.

The swift action and decision making that our leaders display when dealing with issues pertaining to their welfare makes me conclude that they are really capable of making decisions as long as the motivation is of personal gain.

It is indeed intriguing that as a country we continue paying our leaders for supposedly leading us, we should not be paying our leaders for misleading us. A philosopher once said; “It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.” For Eswatini, it is clearly in our moments of indecision that our destiny is being shaped.

Mhlume