Stop Trying To Look Good to Tinkhundla! Stop Trying To Be "Clean"!

I said this in 2011 when the so-called “clean PUDEMO” was telling the whole world that we were the “bad PUDEMO” which was causing problems! And it is still relevant today!

Be reasonable - by being unreasonable to tinkhundla. Tinkhundla is unreasonable to you. So why should you try and destroy it reasonably? Tinkhundla is not diplomatic when it kills your comrades. Why then should you be diplomatic when you destroy it?

You see, tinkhundla people will come out and insult you, whether you are rich, poor, homeless, educated, school drop-out, or anything. Tinkhundla always insults you using whatever you have. Don’t try to please them. You have nothing to prove to tinkhundla.

1.    When you haven’t been able to acquire tertiary education they will use that very fact to try and de-campaign you. They will be saying to the people, “Don’t listen to this uneducated fellow. She just wants to go down with the rest of you since she knows that she has got nothing to lose as she is already educated”.

2.    When you are at university or college and you have good grades, generally, they will say, “Don’t listen to him! He wants you to boycott classes because he knows that he is smart, and when the exams comes he will pass and you will all fail. He is using you. Why listen to him then?”

3.    When you are rich they will say, “Oh! Why should you listen to this person? She is rich yet she wants you to be engaged in the struggle so that you can continue to be poor. She wants to be rich alone.”

4.    If it happens that you are in exile they will jump and say, “He needs to shut up! He is not on the ground! He must come back and fight for freedom here in Swaziland if he is serious. Don’t listen to this person because he wants you to sacrifice but he is not willing to.”

They may even say, “He is not an exile. There are no political exiles in Swaziland!” When they say such things, do not be tempted to start releasing any list of exiles so as to try and prove to tinkhundla that there are political exiles of Swaziland.

5.    Tinkhundla censors the media. So, you may then take advantage of social media such as facebook, twitter, you tube, etc. Trust me, when you have advanced to such a stage they will come hitting hard, and saying, “Look at this person! She calls herself an activist yet she is on facebook/twitter. You can’t win freedom on facebook. She is nothing but a cyber-activist who keeps criticizing from the comfort of her arm-chair! Don’t listen to her!”

6.    When you are in jail for your political opinions, they will be hitting you saying, “Look at him! He is trying to be Mandela. He thinks he can emulate him. There will always be only one Nelson Mandela. This man must stay in jail and be sodomized by the inmates there!”

7.    When you fail in school or tertiary institution and repeat a class they will scream again and say “Why do you keep listening to a failure? Kodvwa lesidvomu nisifunani kangaka? This fellow has failed and lost everything and simply wants to go down with the rest of you!”

You see! That is tinkhundla for you. Whether you are rich, poor, homeless, educated, learned, jailed, exiled, inside or outside Swaziland, or wherever, they will always want to destroy you. It is a pity that even comrades use such tinkhundla garbage against other comrades.

Don’t try to look beautiful to tinkhundla. They are not beautiful. Don’t try to please tinkhundla, its agents or its leaders. Never ever change your ideology and approach to issues, no matter how the insults! Never ever reduce your radicalism simply because you want to please tinkhundla. In fact, never ever reduce your radicalism! Stay radical forever! Keep your cool and keep speaking the truth. Keep fighting the system! 

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