Creeping and Crawling in Darkness: Mswati’s Failed Mission to South Africa

Swaziland Solidarity Network (Johannesburg)

Lucky Lukhele

7 June 2011

Further unsubstantiated reports from our very reliable sources have indicated that Mswati has been going to South Africa regularly these past few days.

His flights are no longer reported in the media, as he leaves secretly at night. He uses chartered aeroplanes based in Lanseria airport, South Africa.

He is usually accommodated at the presidential guesthouse in Pretoria. His secret mission is to beg his personal friend Jacob Zuma, the president of the republic of South Africa, to lend his country money so he can avert a popular uprising by paying civil servants their salaries.

Jacob Zuma has politely dismissed this plea by telling Mswati that as the president of the ANC led government, he cannot act outside the parameters of his political party and parliament.

While this is going on, one of his wives is taking advantage of these secret flights. It has been reported that this undisclosed member of Mswati’s harem also chartered her own aeroplane to take her to South Africa for medical check-ups. Once in the republic, she went on a shopping spree, using the little resources that the country has.

The minister of Foreign Affairs, Lutfo “Step Daddy” Dlamini, was also in Pretoria last week to assure the Staff at the Swazi High Commission that all is well in Swaziland and that they will not be experiencing any more difficulties in getting their salaries.

It has been reported that Lutfo has since returned R100 million from the money that he stole from the king. He has promised to pay back a further R40 million in due course. Western nations have shown great displeasure at the movement of this amount of money.

The SSN is completely behind President Jacob Zuma’s stance on this issue. Lending money to Swaziland under the present political set up would be like throwing it away. Until genuine democracy and accountability are fully entrenched in Swazi politics, there should not be a single sent loaned to that country’s government.

Civil servants have made it clear that they are willing to face the consequences that this will bring if it is the catalyst that will bring about an end to the corrupt Tinkhundla system.

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