By Wandile Dludlu.

Emaswati under the Tinkhundla political arrangement willingly or unwillingly, must understand that we have been all made to be Tibutseki.

This is a practice wherein as subjects under one dynasty, you assume a subservient role because of some culmination of dynamics in the coercive formative activities of the nation building process.

The social order created by those who wield power in the kingdom dictates that as subjects not citizens, a proper Swazi child when he or she comes of age, one of the things he or she in particular must do is to join an agemate regiment under one of the nearest Royal Kraal, here you are oriented, indoctrinated about the version of history, culture, traditions and sacrilegious importance of paying utmost allegiance to their majesties.

The role for regiments is to weed King's fields through tribute labour, be it maize, wheat or any such crop, maintaining King’s rondavels, kraals, meticulously taking care of the royal yards and any royal assignments that senior warriors can command you to do,  all this has one real payment, not monetarily but “make your King and Queen happy".

This is a symbolic assurance and permanent generational gesture subjects do to recurrently assure his or her King that he or she is still loyal subject under his kingship, never per se some Gods arrangement or voluntary thing.

One has noted many times how those of us have who for various reasons have not necessarily joined any regiment, turn to believe that therefore they are not subjects of this political, economic and social order.

Today I want to help you wherever you are so long you are a Liswati, usibutseki mani, Tinkhundla as a political system, which you must know, is nothing but royal family interests, longevity and further but deeper hegemonic royal entrenchment in all spheres of you as Emaswati.  

Everyday this is what bothers them, everyday they are creatively designing, modifying means and measures to cement this golden rule.

One in the earlier ventilation above, I gave more the traditional sense and or face of this caricature.

The western civil system thus far have been concocted if not vulgarized to reduce me and you once more to be Tibutseki, like our brothers languishing in the different royal kraals all in an effort to please their majesties, we also daily pay tax from our oftentimes dangerous means for that tax to be taken by royal family at least in billions from the national fiscus alone not counting royalties paid by different companies, public corporations, so that their majesties can not just maintain their status but have a gravy train with our tax in front of our eyes.

We reserve wittingly or unwittingly every real mega business opportunity in public or private sphere of the economy to no one but royal family, we have a airport over hundred kilometers down east because thats what suits the royal family, built it in over six billion when Matsapha airport was by far more convenient for majority of emaSwati from whichever region of the country, 

Everyday as a nation we get not only to pay for a plethora of royal banquets, events dubbed culture, prayer, even pay for wives and girlfriends if not concubines of members of the royal family particular Emazinyane, smallest amount being thirty thousand living allowance, this is what through laws and budgets passed and approved by the same Parliament we are willing to kill each other over in support because like Steve Biko correctly warned over forty years ago in his polemic writing tittled “I Write What I Like” when he said “the biggest weapon oppressors have in their hands, is the mind of the oppressed”.

All in all, whether you are a member of Inyatsi ya Mswati regiment from the Hhohho region or bumping in the streets of Dalrich with your Michel Jackson sweater as a high earning clever black seen by Zuma, so long as you as fall within jurisdiction of being Liswati under Tinkhundla, you must know that we are all auxiliary and ancillary in our existence.

We exist in this country to please their Majesties through everything we have, work for and all best things reserved for the royal family, we survive only on whatever left over from the royal banquets. 

Tablets, medications, roads, scholarships, salaries for workers, literally everything you meagre chase thereafter would be that which royalty have decided to leave for your existence, because your existence and sweat is important for their next Las Vegas escapades, until such time we break away from this fundamental notion, sitibutseki, Kwasa Malawu!!!.