By Wandile Dludlu
Africa-Press – Eswatini. One has been following the big Summit by various Kings, Queens and Chiefs from across the continent who met at Sibayeni Lodge in Matsapha for the past two(2) days.
Even more interesting is the main resolution to make the King of eSwatini their representative in the African Union(AU) and in such international platforms, he is sanctioned to raise the plight of not only recognition but, role which most suffered with the advent of slavery, colonialism and today neoliberal World Order.
One supports decolonization, Pan-Africanism and us as African taking serious our complete independence project, particularly economical, culturally, spiritually and politically.
But the realization of the full potential of the African people should be our pursuit without fear nor hesitation, the unification and advancement of the material development of the continent led by ourselves.
Now, one wish to caution all those African Kings, Queens and Chiefs who wasted their precious time the passed weekend and elected King Mswati 111 to represent them at AU.
The Swazi Monarchy has been long captured, converted and completely absorbed by both British and Boer settler colonial predators.
Let me make few examples for your understanding and appreciation hopefully; on the 2nd of December 1879 Swazis on behalf of the British Empire, fought with the Pedis under His Majesty King Sekhukhuni, a fearsome warrior who was enemy number one of the British in what was called; “The Battle of Emshadza”.
Swazis at a heavy human cost emerged victorious, they were initially invited to back-up the British warriors against the Pedis who had defeated the British in several battles before in their conquest expeditions, but upon battle field they found themselves alone without the British Army.
His Majesty King Sekhukhuni was captured and taken for imprisonment in the Pretoria Central Prison courtesy of the Swazi royal sell-out puppet effort.
So literally, they fought an African formidable neighboring Kingdom to please the Queen in England.
In the same year earlier on 22nd January 1879, the Zulus under his Majesty King Cetshwayo Ka-Mpande fought the British defeated them in the battle of Sandhlwane.
This was another African Kingdom resisting the white settler colonial bullying, a record the Swazi Monarchy does not have at all,serve to spill blood of either its own or other black African Kingdom to please the Queen or the Afrikaner.
Once again in the so called first World War between 1914/18 Swazi Regent Queen Labotsibeni hired a fighter jet donated it to the British Army with money they had been receiving from British Stipend and other Royalties accumulated over time for their role of managing the blacks on behalf of the colonial settlers administration.
There is a plethora of instances where Swazi Monarchy supports beyond measure the western powers even during apartheid, the Swazi Monarchy openly campaigned against the sanctions on the Afrikaner racist regime because it was and it is today a puppet without shame.
Under no circumstances any African Kingdom worth its salt can be represented by a true convent without even the slightest evidence of pushback against slavery, colonialism and today neoliberal.
The very establishment and recognition of the Swazi State is an award by British settler colonial Government, when it refused to do the same for those who had a history of resistance against colonial predators super powers.
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