It's a full lockdown - that's the partial truth
For all intents and purposes, our unlucky kingdom is now on full lockdown. Unlucky? You ask. Well, if we had been lucky enough to have a caring, sensitive and proactive government, we would be on partial lockdown today because we would have started with the full curfew at the beginning of March. Let me explain. The Ambrose Mandvulo Dlamini government is just too proud to admit that it has ordered a full lockdown. They just do not want to give us armchair critics our 15 minutes of fame, to gloat and say to them, "We told you so."
Some of us have been warning that the situation would explode in thé faces of this lackadaisical government and nobody listened. They seemed not to worry much about prevention and appeared to think they would cross the COVID - 19 bridge when they came to it. Trouble is, we were all passengers in their reckless vehicle. They were carrying us to that bridge and today, we are all there. It is no longer funny now.
Only now, has Lizzie Nkosi, the indifferent and disappointingly aloof Minister of Health realised that the situation is getting out of hand.
She and her Cabinet colleagues are, all of a sudden, aware of what to do. They announced that they were locking down Manzini (city or région, nobody knew) but the fact of the matter is that the whole country is under lockdown. Manzini is not called the hub of Eswatini for nothing. It is the centre of the country where people from Shiselweni, Hhohho and Lubombo meet.
Buses of all shapes and sizes - not to mention roadworthy conditions - pour into the city from Nhlangano, Mbabane, Siteki and Mankayane with dizzying regularity.
Now, people from all these and other places are unable to reach Manzini. Then you call this a partial lockdown? That can only be partially true. We are on full lockdown. As Shakespeare said, all those centuries ago, a rose, by any other name, would smell as sweet. A full lockdown, by any other name, is as restrictive. Calling it partial or relaxed partial is just a game of semantics played by a pompous government that refuses to accept the facts as they are. Now that we have that out of the way, where is the over E100 million donated by concerned entities and individuals to the Resource Mobilisation led by Dr Phil Mnisi? Iphi lemali? Yini kungatsi iya emgodzini longagcwali? At least show us the bottomless pit you are throwing it into. Maybe, just maybe, we might be able to retrieve it ourselves and buy personal protective equipment for health workers, as well as food packages for starving and broke emaSwati affected by the coronavirus nightmare.
Some of us have been warning that the situation would explode in thé faces of this lackadaisical government and nobody listened. They seemed not to worry much about prevention and appeared to think they would cross the COVID - 19 bridge when they came to it. Trouble is, we were all passengers in their reckless vehicle. They were carrying us to that bridge and today, we are all there. It is no longer funny now.
Only now, has Lizzie Nkosi, the indifferent and disappointingly aloof Minister of Health realised that the situation is getting out of hand.
She and her Cabinet colleagues are, all of a sudden, aware of what to do. They announced that they were locking down Manzini (city or région, nobody knew) but the fact of the matter is that the whole country is under lockdown. Manzini is not called the hub of Eswatini for nothing. It is the centre of the country where people from Shiselweni, Hhohho and Lubombo meet.
Buses of all shapes and sizes - not to mention roadworthy conditions - pour into the city from Nhlangano, Mbabane, Siteki and Mankayane with dizzying regularity.
Now, people from all these and other places are unable to reach Manzini. Then you call this a partial lockdown? That can only be partially true. We are on full lockdown. As Shakespeare said, all those centuries ago, a rose, by any other name, would smell as sweet. A full lockdown, by any other name, is as restrictive. Calling it partial or relaxed partial is just a game of semantics played by a pompous government that refuses to accept the facts as they are. Now that we have that out of the way, where is the over E100 million donated by concerned entities and individuals to the Resource Mobilisation led by Dr Phil Mnisi? Iphi lemali? Yini kungatsi iya emgodzini longagcwali? At least show us the bottomless pit you are throwing it into. Maybe, just maybe, we might be able to retrieve it ourselves and buy personal protective equipment for health workers, as well as food packages for starving and broke emaSwati affected by the coronavirus nightmare.
Just perfect my man.
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