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The Delayed Revolution: Swaziland in the Twenty-First Century

The Delayed Revolution: Swaziland in the Twenty-First Century

Nhlanhla Msibi
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____________________________________________________ Behind the façade of a small, peaceful African kingdom on the south-east hem of the continent, on the very shores of the relatively tranquil Indian Ocean, 300 hundred or so miles east of Johannesburg, lies the true story of a nation of once true promise, the ‘Switzerland of Africa’, they once called it, and deservedly too, some say. And yet today, Swaziland is no further into the twenty first century than the distant nation of North Korea under Kim Jong IL, son to the now late Kim Dae Jong; its citizens gasping fitfully under the tyrannical grip of a monarch who brooks no dissent.Africa’s ‘last absolute monarch’, Mswati III has been called, a man to whom nothing is to be said, and even less scrutinized of Swaziland, a country he rules through a timeworn system of governance: Tinkhundla. Hard as it may seem, Swaziland has somehow managed to ‘trick-or-treat’ its way into a gullible world community, convincing it that all is well; that there is veiled grace in living below the poverty line and surviving on hope whilst imploring the Gods in a world yonder to neuter the overlapping burden of HIV/AIDS , flood the country with untold dollars in Foreign Direct Investment and, ultimately, raise the standard of living to soaring heights whilst reversing the country’s incalculable socio-economic ills. Why has all this not happened? Why is Swaziland that much further away from its recurring vision as the African Phoenix still to rise from the ashes?
Why is Swaziland perhaps the best example of a failed African state?

Above all, why is the Mandela-inspired and Marxist-fuelled revolution once more delayed?
Language
English
Pages
791
Format
Kindle Edition
Publisher
Nhlanhla Msibi
Release
December 20, 2014

The Delayed Revolution: Swaziland in the Twenty-First Century

Nhlanhla Msibi
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
A Call-to-Action
____________________________________________________ Behind the façade of a small, peaceful African kingdom on the south-east hem of the continent, on the very shores of the relatively tranquil Indian Ocean, 300 hundred or so miles east of Johannesburg, lies the true story of a nation of once true promise, the ‘Switzerland of Africa’, they once called it, and deservedly too, some say. And yet today, Swaziland is no further into the twenty first century than the distant nation of North Korea under Kim Jong IL, son to the now late Kim Dae Jong; its citizens gasping fitfully under the tyrannical grip of a monarch who brooks no dissent.Africa’s ‘last absolute monarch’, Mswati III has been called, a man to whom nothing is to be said, and even less scrutinized of Swaziland, a country he rules through a timeworn system of governance: Tinkhundla. Hard as it may seem, Swaziland has somehow managed to ‘trick-or-treat’ its way into a gullible world community, convincing it that all is well; that there is veiled grace in living below the poverty line and surviving on hope whilst imploring the Gods in a world yonder to neuter the overlapping burden of HIV/AIDS , flood the country with untold dollars in Foreign Direct Investment and, ultimately, raise the standard of living to soaring heights whilst reversing the country’s incalculable socio-economic ills. Why has all this not happened? Why is Swaziland that much further away from its recurring vision as the African Phoenix still to rise from the ashes?
Why is Swaziland perhaps the best example of a failed African state?

Above all, why is the Mandela-inspired and Marxist-fuelled revolution once more delayed?
Language
English
Pages
791
Format
Kindle Edition
Publisher
Nhlanhla Msibi
Release
December 20, 2014

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