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Women’s Day: Blame apartheid for our miseducation

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Like many of my fellow Swazis, I’ve come to accept that our country could just as well be classified as a South African province. It annoys the hell out of us when South Africans in particular say, “You guys in Swaziland MUST just be officially incorporated into South Africa as a tenth province and Lesotho the 11th…”  It doesn’t annoy me anymore though. Firstly, because I realise that even if Swaziland did become a part of South Africa, it would not happen in my lifetime. Secondly, the reality is that we depend heavily on South Africa for most commodities including electricity, mobile telephone communications, food, jobs…you name it. Heck we even use their currency as legal tender inside our kingdom, just like the BaSotho.   Simunye (we are one) We sing along with vigor to their gospel harmonies courtesy of the likes of Joyous Celebration and Rebecca Malope, and we dance like mad to their Kwaito. We scratch our heads a few times before calling a distant Aunt to remind us who our

Being (un-) Swazi

It’s only just over three months into the New Year and I think I might have already committed one of the biggest undocumented crimes of my motherland.  Yep! Probably high up there next to treason, blasphemy, not tithing and refusing your Holy Spirit drunk Jericho Christian Church member husband sex. You would think he’d want to come home to a well-deserved rest after an all-night session of duracell bunny powered non-stop jogging in a circle, growling at the top of his voice punctuated only by incomprehensible murmurs of bible verse recitals and spitting mucus-laden saliva! Anyway back to me. As the New Year’s resolutions making tournament kicked in at the beginning of 2013, I joined the bandwagon for the first time in years and jotted this one as my first priority and March 31, 2013 as the deadline 1). “Refrain from being un-Swazi”. Don’t ask. But I had a plan you see – I would start with the simplest of things, those things that would make me Swazi or is it ‘more Swazi