By Wandile Dludlu
Africa-Press – Eswatini. We have either a good citizen or a bad citizen in this country, depending on your political, economic, and position in the bigger social prism.
This is either you are conscious of your position or unconscious but, there is no neutral line, everyone of us is a product of his or her society in terms of human behavior to your liberation or oppression.
Karl Marx from Germany and various thinkers long declared that “every society’s dominant ideas are ideas of the ruling elite” whether correct or wrong but subconsciously, we dearly cherish, produce, and reproduce same to our own good or to our detriment as citizens in a society like ours.
Tinkhundla as a hegemonic political, economic and social set of ideas, meant to create a society in which we end up even believing that God designed it from ancient times that in a eSwatini we shall have “Emalangeni” members of the royal house who must have comprehensive real rights over the land including whatever is beneath like minerals.
Whereas us as citizens we must not have such rights nor powers over this land worse mineral rights, good citizens accept this and dearly defend it against their own collective interests and their children for that matter.
The dominant ideas further detect that in this country, its not only God’s creation, but actually a viable economic scenario to have Section nine(9) of the 2005 Constitution of the Kingdom of Swaziland, that provide the most absurd and bizarre article, in black and white declared that;
“The Office of the King and (Ingwenyama) no matter the economic situation in the country, Government shall provide incrementally to State resources”.
As a result we’ve spent R1billion plus towards the King’s Office without fail as budget allocation for the last decade, this interestingly rhymes pretty well with the old adage that say;
“No matter the economy of the Jungle, the lion will never eat grass”.
Good citizens agree with this legal framework and ensure such happens even when hospitals have no tablets, syringes or any such like basics that the same citizens need for their own survival in situations that can be between life and death but if needs be, it’s fine.
We can die as long as our Monarchy gets everything that their hearts desires, we have been social engineered to accept that royalty is closer to God, intercessor between us and the dead and considered to be our ancestors(Emadloti etfu as a Nation).
This places them as a special family spiritual not only above us all, but actually beyond reproach and this makes them unaccountable, super important to the rest of us, their wishes are equivalent to God’s word over the Nation.
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