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OPINION: The Buganu Government of Eswatini, State offices closed and service delivery halted as civil servants prepare and attend traditional alcohol drinking ceremony.

Saturday, 14th March, 2026

We now have a new normal in the country, a Government phenomenon of all State Departments working if they work, only half the day, after which dance, song and festivity takes over, choreography of various performances, art and music becomes the theater of the day in every car parking lot and or open space in the various Ministries. 

This Government has its priorities drunk and resources misaligned in measures never seen before. 

How can human personnel in thousands of civil services, paid for by taxpayers, collapse every day into a business of singing and dancing in preparation for a marula drinking binge. 

The transport Government fleet of trucks, buses, sedans, mini busses and even scooters be pulled to an event that is meant for just “alcohol drinking escape” how dare.

We are certainly led by a crew at all levels that has lost its moral, technical and National conscience to rescind to default mode and absolute cognitive dissonance. When leaders fail, they elect to pull the plug into a drunk master state the entire populace. 

This leadership wishes to see Emaswati drunk everyday so that, they escape the tough realities, many unsailable in the face of a political, morally and technically bankrupt elites and Royalty. 

How did we get here as a Nation when throughout the year, we are busy with nothingness, vanity and absolute rubbish expensively so, from endless pharisee national prayer.

Our Parliament has become a place where fools and foolishness rules the day, what honestly are we celebrating, that we have become United States Trump warmonger trash-bin?.

In the face of African renaissance and global alignment where all Governments are refusing to be bullied and treated less humans by those who have appropriated to themselves the sole rights to decide for other Nations of the world who and how they must be led, we are allowing the US to use our country as a dumping site.

Sies Mani, you can do better!!!

But let me conclude by sending condolences to the family of Slindile Dlamini of ka-BhekiNkhosi who was shot and killed by Queen Mother Ntombi Tfwala’s bodyguard.

OPINION: The Buganu Government of Eswatini, State offices closed and service delivery halted as civil servants prepare and attend traditional alcohol drinking ceremony.
Lutsango attending Buganu Ceremony (pic: Gov).