The Con Wolf Who Wrote Bullshit

There are times when something is stated that is so outrageously far from the truth that one simply lacks the energy to respond to it. One such case is that involving an article in NewstimeAfrica by one of the Africa Contact personnel whose name is not even worth mentioning. This article is an outrageous distortion of the revolutionary upheaval in Swaziland and smacks of a charlatanry not seen yet since the 1973 proclamation by king Sobhuza from the throne.

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Writing under the headline, “The democratic movement that cried wolf”, this con –tact proceeds to portray the Mass Democratic Movement in Swaziland as nothing more than a bunch of liars who spend more time talking and making empty promises to whoever cares to listen when in fact they neither hope to make a revolution nor are they working towards it. He then ends the article by warning that in future the world media may not be willing to cover stories on Swaziland as, “It will be very difficult to convince them in the future that people Swaziland are serious about protesting for change.”

INTELLECTUAL MASTURBATION

The preposterous part about this article about the mass democratic movement in Swaziland is that it lacks understanding of the role played by the organisations cited as misleading the public and it is clear that the con-artist has never bothered to actually conduct research into it. He is merely day-dreaming, loafing on the job, or to put it accurately, he is intellectually masturbating.

Had he done the necessary research then he would have known that the mass democratic movement cannot, by nature, mislead the international media because when the mass democratic movement makes pronouncements, it is primarily speaking to its members, the ordinary Swazis and therefore stating its own objectives to itself and all potential Swazi participants of the revolution.

To prove this fact, the three statements cited as “Crying wolf” were either published in the April 12 uprising group or the SSN forum, both comprising a membership almost entirely composed of Swazis. This is not a cry to the international media, it is Swazis talking amongst themselves and proposing a way forward, more appropriately commanding its forces.

NO IMAGINATION

This is a whole galaxy apart from the images that the notion of “Crying wolf” are meant to bring to someone who reads the outrageous article. The article is in fact a deliberate distortion of reality because takes the spearhead of this revolution and puts it on a mountain top where it perches itself, removed from the people, and directs a warning at international observers claiming an impending revolution when they know that none is coming. This is bullshit. It is kaka.

Moreover because it is written from an obnoxious ignorance, nowhere does the article take into account the fact that the April 12 uprising is first and foremost the aspiration of the most radical elements within the country’s democratic movement. Being radical it should follow logically that these elements will always be two steps ahead of the masses.

SPEARHEAD OF THE MASSES

And being ahead of the masses they take the role of masterminds and strategists who propose a way forward and demand that the masses revolt. That a revolution was presented as a way forward was not even a novelty. The idea of a revolution in Swaziland is nothing new. Radical Swazis have proposed a revolution long before this con-thing was even born.

The fact that April 12 2011 did not result in a revolution does not in any way mean that there was no sincerity on the part of the organisers in its proclamation. It merely means that the people did not go past their fear barrier. They backtracked when faced with an insurmountable repression. And it was one hell of a repression.

ULTERIOR MOTIVES

And this is where one has to question the motives of the article because it blatantly ignores the drastic repression which took place on that day, and the fact that the international media that the movement is purported to be more interested in was also a victim of it. Revolution is not a walk in the park that happens in a vacuum, totally devoid of any resistance.

A revolution in Swaziland was going to occur on the 12th of April 2011 if the state had not crushed it. Only an imbecile would not see that.
Where is the documentation of the fact that Swazis were beaten, abducted and in some cases raped by the state’s armed forces?

REPRESSION OVERLOOKED

Why it is not reported that in the afternoon of April 12 2011 not even a single leader of any of the country’s unions was free to continue providing a way forward to the masses, because they were behind bars? How much has this con-man done to highlight the fact that our most vocal elements, the youth, had their leaders arrested on that date under false “explosive possession” charges?

If this is the kind of journalism that Newstime Africa is about then it has to retrain its con-tacts if it hopes to be taken seriously. In fact the con-man responsible for this article deserves to be fired for being downright unintelligent.

BIASED IMPERIAISM

This con-man, being of British origin ought to know the difference between a proposed way forward directed at the masses and a warning directed at international media. Moreover, as a journalist he should be able to determine the audience of a statement by simply reading it. All this he dismally fails to see because he is in fact looking through jaundiced eyes.

The truth of the matter is that none is a biased and complicit in such matters as those who pretend to be mere objective observers. By observing from ignorance such con-artists end up presenting the movement as what their minds would have them believe it is. No scientific or scholarly work is employed in determining the true nature of the struggle and the pronouncements it makes about itself. Instead, we are left with a shallow and blurred view replete with the observer’s own prejudices towards the capacity and sincerity of an African movement, as observed by a national of the former colonial power which still has a vested interest in the affairs of the country.

Stop the King’s Birthday Celebrations or Go to Work

The April 12 Swazi Uprising Movement would like to send a humble plea to all Swazis to disregard the so-called holiday on the 19th of April. The entire country will be in Nhlangano stopping the celebrations that will see our hard earned taxes being blown away by an imbecile who doesn’t even know how to count from ten to zero.

Swaziland has, in a matter of a few weeks, become the most expensive country in the region. All this is due to the increased taxes, notoriously packed at Value Added Tax (VAT). With Swazis being so ruthlessly taxed, the one man who does not pay taxes in the country, and yet happens to be the richest, is adamant that he should take the little the country has and use it on a birthday party for himself, his wives and his children. Whatever he will waste means less for us, the poor.

This is pure evil. Why does he not go to Kuwait and ask his friends there to throw him a birthday party funded with petro-dollars.? We would gladly wish him a safe journey and hope that he never returns to our country. Instead he chooses to go to the poorest region in the country to show off his power to waste the nation’s wealth to the starving and poor Swazi souls of Shiselweni.

We are tired of this senseless gluttony. We need to stop this birthday party from happening by all means necessary and this is why we insist that if you will not be part of the contingent that will be blocking the route to Nhlangano Memorial Stadium on that day then please report to your daily job. Ours is a very poor country and therefore we cannot afford to loaf around satisfying the whims and caprices of an ungrateful despot who thinks that the universe should revolve around him.

We plead with the nation to show their disgust at this inhumane greed by simply going about their normal business on the 19th of April because it is not a day of celebration. It should be a day of national mourning. This is a simple plea that does not require the court’s permission. We will have genuine holidays when we will celebrate and commemorate, but next Thursday is a normal work day.

South African Government Must Fund Mswati’s Birthday Party

Following media reports in the kingdom of Swaziland that the billionaire king had ordered his poorest subjects to donate money for his 44th birthday celebrations, the April 12 Uprising group has taken it upon itself to find a lasting solution to this very greedy despotism.

Swazis on Swazi nation land do not have the freedom to choose whether to give this money to the king or not. They are coerced into doing so. Failure to contribute towards this mad man’s birthday could result in an eviction or constant victimisation. Seeing the precarious situation that our people find themselves in, we are appealing to the king’s sugar daddy to satisfy his desires.

We are asking the South Africa government to please fund this man’s birthday party. This appeal is made primarily because we have noted the great affection that the government has towards this thief, murderer and chief plunderer of Swaziland’s resources. Our position is informed by the fact that we believe that this is possible.

Last year, when Swaziland was on the verge of a total uprising spearheaded by civil servants, the South African government saw it fit to fund the money-sink that is the Swazi kingdom, this despite loud protests from the workers themselves who believed that this “bailout” was nothing but a waste of money if given to king Mswati who is known to be wasteful and has the country’s priorities upside down.

It is not known for sure whether the loan eventually arrived or whether the conditions given to the public were sincere. What is known is that the South African president was willing to give the money to the spendthrift regardless of any protests from the Swazi people.  “If a country is your neighbour, should you allow your neighbour to collapse because you hold certain political views? Will that not impact on you?” said Mr Zuma

True to the assertions of the workers, a few months on and the habits that landed the Swazi state in that pitiful situation are again playing themselves out. Mswati is back wasting Swazi money. How will he ever learn that spending millions on a useless birthday party in the midst of poverty goes against common sense if every time the country runs out of money some sugar daddy is always waiting to give him more?

The South African government aside, in all honesty the ANC itself as a party has not helped the situation in Swaziland with its own profligate spending such as the centenary celebrations in Mangaung which alone cost a whooping R100 million, this despite the fact that poverty in the country is still rampant. Africa’s ruling elite are a travesty of leadership. None amongst them holds a higher moral ground and it is therefore impossible to expect one to lead the other in the right direction.

The unfortunate reality, however, is that Shiselweni folk are destitute. To save these poor souls from the greedy Imfingo who seeks to scrap the little that they have to survive, the South African government must simply hand him a cheque signed “Yours truly, Sugar daddy” and let the man drink himself to death.

 

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SNUS Sets the Pace For Major Shutdown

The students of Swaziland and all those who support the right to education for all Swazis showed their unity, resilience and commitment today as they showed up in great numbers to march against the ludicrous proposed scholarship new policy and the reduction of students allowances by 60%.

While the march and subsequent demonstrations are meant to put pressure on the government to end these right-wing policies, it is important that all students understand that these policies are the result of a government that was created primarily to serve the royal family.

It is therefore only logical that if Swazis are to avoid the emergence of such policies they must form their own government. Such a government cannot be a shadow government, or a government in exile. It must be a governing government, which has the authority to create and implement policies. Such a government cannot exist side-by-side with the current one and therefore this Royal government needs to be abolished completely.

In the coming weeks we all should prepare to shake the country and bringing it to a complete standstill once more. Given the unity and commitment displayed today, if we keep this standstill for long enough we can complete our uprising.

Get Your Heads Out of the ANC’s Ass

It has come to our attention as a movement that certain Swazis who either happen to have acquired South African citizenship fraudulently or are members of the ANC are unhappy when ANC members are called to order for insulting the Swazi struggle.

The fact of the matter is that Swazis have been fighting for democracy and human rights long before some of these ANC members were even born. When South Africans were still walking around carrying dom-passes Swazis already articulated their vision of a democratic Swaziland with basic human freedoms and actually fought for it.

South Africa became a democratic country mainly because the world took a stand against Apartheid. Had it not been for the sanctions against Apartheid and the large volume of arms, military training, political education and other numerous form of material support that the country received from abroad, they still would be living in Bantustans receiving Bantu education and the numerous other indignities which came with Apartheid. Today because they have turned the corner some of them think that they can belittle those who are still in the gutters of dictatorship. This is stupidity at its worst.

It therefore takes a person with a terribly low self-esteem to imagine that Swazis will allow South Africans to insult their democratic struggle and get away with it. Solidarity is not something to beg for. It is simply the logical action of a group of people who are sincerely committed to upholding and spreading the principles of democracy, equality and respect for human rights.

It should therefore be clear that those individuals and organisations who have that commitment within them are already giving material and moral support to the struggle for democracy in Swaziland. By extension, those who are not are indicating that they have no genuine belief in democracy and are only abusing their democratic platforms for self-aggrandisement.

Swazis must understand that they are not doing themselves a favour by going around shuffling with a cap in hand begging for solidarity. The energy that is wasted smooching the asses of South African political parties would be best used fighting the despotic regime in Swaziland. While these organisations should be viewing them as people who are serious with their quest for democracy, they currently view them as nothing but street urchins begging for whatever semblance of fake solidarity that can be eked from the so-called liberating party of South Africa. Get your heads out of the ANC’s ass guys.