By Zweli Martin Dlamini
Africa-Press – Eswatini. Under the Tinkhundla undemocratic regime, emaSwati are paraded to investors as a cheap labour and this means, for Government to attract investors, the citizens must suffer or languish in poverty.
In this country, we have Government Gazettes that allow companies to underpay workers and in fact, the employment and trade policies promote poverty and the suffering of ordinary citizens while enriching the powerful and politically connected.
As the situation stands, it is even very difficult to conclude whether the current Government is a capitalist or socialist regime because the policies are a mixture of capitalism and socialism, Tinkhundla is actually a confused oppressive regime.
Some emaSwati working in the textile industry, security, hospitality, manufacturing and even the public service are living in poverty because the salaries were ‘programmed’ to immediately force them to ‘money-lending’ companies.
Thereafter, they will remain indebted for the duration of their employment if not the rest of their lives.
After death, the very same Tinkhundla system has made it easier for eStates within the Office of the Master of the High Court to be looted with impunity and this means, the chain of poverty will continue and be experienced even by the children of the deceased.
But this Government always claim to be fighting poverty, there’s absolutely no political will to eradicate poverty in this country, this country is actually a factory where poverty is manufactured.
The investment promotion policies promotes the enrichment of the rich and powerful at the expense of the poor and marginalized.
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