Free Swaziland Movement — Democracy & Justice for Eswatini

Banaketfu nabodzadzewetfu,

URGENT NOTICE

I hope you will take time to read through these lines because they are extremely important and will enable you to make timely decisions while you can.

THE CRISIS OF ABSOLUTE MONARCHY

The system of governance used to lord over our nation is on the brink of collapse; it is busting at the seams, struggling to maintain its own weight.

It is impossible for a government to spend 40% of its annual revenue on one family and succeed in fulfilling its social commitments and bureaucratic mandate – salaries and loan repayments.

This has been made further inevitable because, in order to maintain control of the population, the system has had very little in the way of options but to keep the society dependent.

This explains why the sector of the economy that is not directly controlled by the state – the private sector – is so minuscule and mostly in foreign hands.

This is not due to a “failure” to develop it, it is the way the system protects itself from empowering internal threats. That – in turn – explains why the country has the highest rate of unemployment on the continent.

MASKING FAILURE, INTENSIFYING REPRESSION

The decision to host an expensive party at the expense of the taxpayer is not unrelated to the government’s failure to pay civil servants their second notch (2026).

Money that was due to public servants was used to fund a three-day spectacle. Instead of seeking loans to fulfil that mandate, the government has now arrogantly told Public Sector Unions that it will simply not fulfil that obligation, and that they should feel free to seek recourse anywhere they see fit.

We call this provocation. It is therefore not a coincidence that the May Day Rally is now in limbo, due to what is proclaimed as a technical error by the workers’ umbrella body, TUCOSWA. This is an attempt to repress “kuvungutela kwelive”, the spirit of unrest.

WHERE TO, FROM HERE?

This is the precise point at which public anger usually spills over; let us not allow this to happen because it gives the regime an excuse to spill blood – their specialty.

Let us move forward with poise, reflection, and intention. Our first step is admitting to ourselves that the monarchy in its current form is unsustainable. This is not a matter of wishful thinking or “feelings”; it is a conclusion supported by facts.

No amount of propaganda can hide what we experience and see on a daily basis. The system has run its course and is collapsing.

We need a new social contract founded on open access to the economy, equitable distribution of wealth, and equality before the law.

A state founded on collective ownership, not a neo-colonial fief masking itself as “modern traditionalism.”

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