Swaziland cabinet minister Lutfo Dlamini called Swazi people protesting for democracy in the kingdom ‘diseases’.
He told a meeting of diplomats yesterday (6 April 2011) that the 8,000 people who marched on the prime minister’s office on 18 March 2011 demanding the resignation of the entire government were ‘opportunistic diseases’.
His comments were also aimed at the ‘uprising’ expected in Swaziland next Tuesday (12 April 2011).
The Times of Swaziland newspaper today reports Dlamini saying that the ‘people who are sowing seeds of political disharmony among Swazis are nothing but “opportunistic diseases”’.
Dlamini was addressing a group of ambassadors and other diplomats who are based in Swaziland and Mozambique. He was trying to put across to them the measures that the Swaziland government wanted to take to get out of the economic mess successive Swazi governments, handpicked by King Mswati III, sub-Saharan Africa’s last absolute monarch, have created.
Dlamini, who has a long history of lying, couldn’t stop himself doing it again yesterday. According to the Times, he told the diplomats, ‘the problems currently faced by the country are purely economical and not political’.
Yesterday, I reported that when Dlamini lied to South African journalists they corrected him and told their readers the truth.
Not so in Swaziland. The Times, the only independent daily newspaper in the kingdom, allowed Dlamini to tell his lie unchallenged.
The Times also reports, ‘Dlamini assured the envoys that government would stick to its role to maintain a friendly and peaceful country.’
We’ll see whether Dlamini is telling another lie next Tuesday when the main teachers’ union SNAT starts a three-day mass protest and the ‘uprising’ coordinated by a Facebook group is planned to start
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Hey Dlamini
By Mandla Maseko waMgazi
You found me ruling on earth
This was my part of earth called Swaziland
You asked for refuge as you ran from KwaZulu
In my kindness I allowed you in
Not only allowed you in
I protected you from Zwide sought you like a hungry lion
In return you thanked me
You offered me your daughter whom I refused
You offered your daughter to my Heir who took her
You baited my son with your daughter
You slaughtered my son and stole my kingdom
The seeds that you sowed are back to bite you
Today you will reap betrayal at the hands of your own trusted ones
Ndumiso has shown you what a trusted Mamba can do
Mamba has shown what a protected snake can do
Even then you still have not seen anything yet
You are still yet to see betrayal to the levels undreamt off before
Even the gardens in which you sow your seeds abandon you
The scare crows in your fields also betray you
The bought friends overseas will soon go to the highest bidder
inspired By King Khabangobe Maseko
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