*Sibaya AKA People Parliament is King Mswati’s pleasant illusion that deserve an all-out-uprising by all means necessary*
In his attempt to understand the large number of falsehoods accepted as true in the real world, Rene Descartes concluded that a despot like King Mswatiis “*a prisoner who is enjoying an imaginary freedom whilst asleep, as he begins to suspect that he is asleep, he dreads being woken up, and goes along with the pleasant illusion as long as he can*”.Thus in the past week, the pleasant illusion was exacerbated by the impotent parliament (Sibaya) - otherwise known as the People's parliament: a talk-fest that is without terms of reference and will neither have any progressive impact in the political and socio-economic status quo. As confirmed by the most senior prince who is regarded as the custodian of the monarchy – Prince Masitsela, indeed it is a fruitless non-scientific exercise designed to be a stress - relief ploy to sway international and regional attention from the political upheaval and undermine protests by unions, and hopefully break their revolutionary momentum. The blame and excuse game was not a surprise during his Sibaya opening speech which alluded that the source of all political and socio-economic problems engulfing Swaziland is a result of foreign or alien influence emanating from regional neighbours. It was therefore shocking, for some of the retired conservative business people claiming to be leading a coalition of civil society to glorify the Sibaya, and claim King Mswati is genuine, when even sycophants who crawl on their bellies when meeting Mswati know that he is a pathological LIAR and unethical. If he was genuine, why are some of the political parties and were not invited to participate in the debate, precisely because it was the very same Sibaya session that outlawed pluralism and any semblance of democracy in 1973. Lest we forget that aprogressive former advisor of King Mswati III, confided to the CIA, as reported by Wikileaks, that King Mswati III is mentally challenged and therefore does not have the capacity to apply logic and is therefore dependant an archaic cultural practices and rituals of which one of them is the peoples parliament AKA Sibaya. This charade is so important to the monarchy that resources that should have been used by the Swazi government to cater for the 4.5 % demand by unions were diverted to cater for logistics related to the Sibaya. For example, transportation of sycophants to and from the venue, provision of food laced with King Mswati’s sperm harvested during the Incwala Ceremony, extensive muti work on the surface where the people sit when making submission and praising King Mswati III, and of course with the hope that they might be noticed so as to be roped into King Mswati'sgovernment. Reliable sources from the Kings Office estimate is that more than R5 million was provided by Swazi government and was spent on hiring over three thousand people to attend the wasteful event and bonuses were budgeted for people to make pro-regime submissions, especially submissions which blame local bread and butter issues on world-wide recession and failure by South Africa to provide a loan. Mr Moses Motsa, King Mswati’s business front, was appointed as the attendance organising coordinator entrusted with the task of bribing gullible people who are associated with the Mass Democratic Movement to attend the gathering so that it can appear to be inclusive of all political persuasions in the country. To achieve this Motsa prostituted a name of a trade union movement to invite various political formations to George Hotel, same hotel he pretends to own in Manzini when in fact the hotel is one of King Mswati’s ill-gotten properties. This lobbying meeting was advertised as a discussion on whether to attend the king's parliament or not.The king's aide chaired the meeting and the behaviour of some union leaders indicated that they had already made a deal with Mr Motsa that they would indeed bring their supporters to the royal kraal. Motsa pledged to provide these stalwarts and their rented crowd with transport to the venue and promised them that they would be given a chance to address the nation. Now that the charade has come and gone, the reality will sink in, because nothing will change, save for the appointment of retired business people and former union leaders who made pro Mswati contributions to public positions. For us, who for the past three decades have been in the fore front of the struggle for a democratic Swaziland, it is Aluta Continua. -- NEW!!!! SSN FORUM IS ON FACEBOOK!!!! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Swaziland Solidarity Network Forum Google Group. Visit the group home page at http://groups.google.com/group/sa-swaziland-solidarity-eom-forum for more options, pages and files. To post to the group, send email to [email protected] or reply to this message. To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
