King doesn’t get how apartheid used him

IF there is any real positive contribution that kings bring to any democratic society, financial or otherwise, it is so minimal that humanity can survive easily without them.

Kings belong to the past. Like all other creations of human beings, they must at some point in the development of society die out and be replaced by other institutions befitting that era.

King Goodwill Zwelithini’s love and praise for apartheid should be seen in this context. It does not even click in his royal mind why the apartheid regime treated him with “respect” while brutalising the rest of the black population.

The regime’s “respect” for him was only a means to divide the black population so that some individuals like him would believe they were honourable upper-class citizens.

It was a divide and rule strategy.

Instead of ridiculing the black government, King Zwelithini should be thanking it for the millions of rands he receives every year, including the millions more he demands when he has exceeded his budget! — Thabo Thwala, Bothaville

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