Swaziland : April 12 Uprising – not a Proposal - But a call to Action

The April 12 movement has reminded all of us on what we know that
April 12 1973 was a day of commencement of our misery. In our
suffering, misery, hopelessness, insecurity, hunger, poverty, disease,
exploitation, exclusion, marginalization, unemployment, illiteracy,
subjugation, oppression, underdevelopment, malnutrition, slavery,
death and all social ills, this date is reflected. It is a reminder
that need not to be emphasized.

If we remember well this day, what then should we do ? When we organize
peacefully – Mswati triples the state of emergency. He does not want
us to organize and openly express our conscious. He wants us to
abandon our action and betray our conscious. But can we do that ? Do we
have an option ? No ! No ! No !

Then what ? He blocks movement ? He declares war. He arrests people, he
terrorize society, threatens the ever weakened. He is a dangerous
coward.

We begin from where we are. We organize around us. We fight from our
strength. Our moral is our history and experience over the past 38
years. We fight along our demands, our consciousness. We aim victory
not a defeat. We begin now, today at this very-hour, we have no
blankets, our houses are licking, we never had peaceful nights, we are
harassed, raided, killed during the night, we are in secured.

What then is our action ?

April 12 is the day of beginning of our action. Let’s do as we do on
New Year. Beat the drums, blow our whistles, and fire our crickets,
blow vuvuzelas to mark the beginning of action.

Join them in the roadblocks, block the roads where they have not
blocked, we don’t have the road signs, let’s use stones, logs and
burning tyres, they may prove efficient than the road signs they use.
We are a mourning nation. The night is the good time for all our
action.

To those who cannot join the march during the day ; stay home, observe,
pray, don’t go to work, April 12 2011 is not a working day in
Swaziland, it’s a day of struggle.

Those who normally visit Swaziland from other countries, April 12 2011
is not a tourism day in Swaziland, come some other day.

Those running business in Swaziland, today is not a business day, but
a day of struggle. Close your business, u can open it some other time,
but not today. April 12 2011 is a day of action not business.

Those in the transport industry, as they have always sided with the
struggle before, no transport on April 12 because there is no one
going to work. Park your buses and kombis at home. U will use them
when time comes but not today.

To the activist, observe those who do not observe the call of the
poor, those who will betray the call of the marginalized, they are not
our enemies but are low conscious people who cannot learn only by
information, they learn better by experience, they will get that time,
that class will be open soon – KNOW THEM.

Those who enjoy the beatings, shooting, torture, harassment,
intimidation, killing of un armed citizens who want nothing but who
want an end to the unjust system of governance – the throters of
violence – those in uniform of terror (state police and soldiers)
must remember that this is a struggle, a process of history driven by
conscious people who have no limit of thinking and action.

WHAT A DAY IN SWAZILAND – APRIL 12 2011.

LONG LIVE THE STRUGGLE OF THE PEOPLE !

Contact :
General Secretary : Kenneth Kunene
Cell : +2772 594 3971
E-mail : mtitho@yahoo.co
International organizer : Felix Mabaso
Cell : +27749228277
Email : felixmabaso@yahoo.com