Dated 18/07/2016
The
Peoples United Democratic Movement [PUDEMO] and Swaziland Solidarity Network
[SSN] would like to pass their heartfelt gratitude to all the South Africans,
and Swazis who attended the seminar on SADC, the prospect of Mswati becoming a
chairperson of SADC and what needs to be done. As much as the seminar was
scheduled during a working day, the attendees found it significant enough to
take off from work to attend. For this we thank you all for making such a big
sacrifice to lend your opinions and expertise on how the region should approach
the future, as Mswati III has become the regular shame on insisting to hold on
to the past for the sole purposes of using the state of Swaziland to loot the
hard-earned resources of the people of Swaziland while above 60% of the nation
lives in abject poverty, while in the process lending his autocracy to making
the region look like a stronghold of dictators.
The
seminar was not only to address the issue of a dictator becoming a chairperson
of a supposed democratic institution, but to build a permanent South African
Movement to serve as an inspiration to the Swazi people that in times when the
repression is hardest and security forces prowl the streets of Swaziland to
clamp down on dissent, that the South African Movement can on a regular bases
fill conference rooms and the streets to once again highlight the Swazi
situation, because shamefully ironic is the reality that next door to one of
the most robust former liberation movements still exists the brainchild of
apartheid regime years after it has been defeated in South Africa.
Judging
by the attendance of the seminar which was responded to way beyond our
expectations, communicates that both South Africans and Swazis are anxious to deal
with the Swazi issue and finally do away with a dictatorship that has been
nothing but dead weight to the region. Our strategy of not focusing much on the
international community in regard to the seminar on SADC was so that as Swazis
and South Africans we shoulder first ponder on this issue as we are literally
brothers and sisters, and thereafter call upon the international community when
we have shown that as members of the region we are very much willing to
confront our issues before we call up the international community for further
assistance. In the near future we will be engaging our international friends,
who in the past have responded inspiringly, and give a directive on what needs
to be done.
As
part of the campaigns to address the issue of what needs to be done on the
issue of institutionalizing dictatorship in the region, it was resolved that on
top of the number of campaigns that are planned by PUDEMO, SSN and civil
society, that there will be a counter summit that to balance the story and
espouse on the hypocrisy and the promotion of repression presently ongoing
within SADC.
Issued
by the Peoples United Democratic Movement (PUDEMO) and Swaziland Solidarity
Network (SSN)
For more
information please call comrade Lucky Lukhele. Cell: 072 502 4141
Or
Brian
Ntshangase (PUDEMO National Spokesperson). Cell: 081 091 2364
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