I am extremely surprised to note that, some State controlled journalists are still dreaming that one day, the editor of this Swaziland News will be extradited and handed over to the eSwatini law enforcement agencies merely for writing news critical of the Tinkhundla cruel and undemocratic regime.
Eswatini signed extradition treaties with South Africa and other countries to assist in apprehending wanted alleged criminals not independent journalists, a person becomes a suspected criminal for committing crimes not because the State decided to label him as such.
Some State journalists normally quote my sentiments uttered during the political unrest saying they amount to terrorism, I can repeat those statements anytime when facing a similar situation and the eSwatini Government won’t do anything, I have a right to express myself depending on the situation.
If someone is hunting me and went as far as torturing my wife and children,I have a right to share a view suggesting that, the person hunting me must be killed as well as a self-defense tactic.
I repeat; at least now in English not Siswati, any security officer who is hunting me with an alleged intention to kill me or torture my wife and children, must be killed because the criminal justice system including the Human Rights Commission is not protecting us.
I will express myself anytime depending on the situation, in the midst of a war, the language is not about romance but killing if you don’t want the word ‘kill’ to be uttered against you, then you must promote a dialogue to resolve political differences.
Tinkhundla can’t unleash security officers to torture and kill us merely for expressing our political views and then label some of us terrorists for suggesting that, those who kill us must be killed as well.
Self-defense is a human right, you can’t kill civilians and then expect us to romance those who kill us, State journalists must know that I can repeat the political unrest statements anytime if the situation permits, I have a right to share a view when facing a life and death situation.
If I feel the person who is hunting me with an intention to kill me must killed, I will share that view without fear of favour and, the onus is upon the perpetrators to stop persecuting me if they don’t want to be killed.
As the situation stands, we are fine with some police officers and soldiers, some are leaking information to assist me in my journalism work, I maintain that security officers who are genuinely providing services in this country must be protected and awarded a salary increment.
But I also maintain that, those who disregard their duties, use guns to kill civilians and terrorize our families, if an opportunity presents itself, they must taste their own medicine.
I know that some State controlled journalists are also working as soldiers and police officers, they are State spies and this include Times journalist Mfankhona Nkambule(soldier), Phesheya Sibiya from Channel S TV and Kimberly Mavuso, a soldier.
If these spies don’t want their colleagues in the Army or Police to be killed, they must tell them to stop hunting independent journalists and persecuting other citizens with different political views, it’s simple!!!.
Some police and soldiers were killed during the political unrest because, emaSwati were defending themselves, a killer cannot dictate how those who are being killed must react.
Furthermore, South Africa is a democratic country and those who are in power once fought the apartheid regime, they know the language understood by a regime that kills civilians.
This tendency by State journalists of writing articles implying that, I will be extradited is just meant to pool the wool in the eyes of emaSwati, it will never happen.
The police tortured my wife and children with guns and if State spy Mfankhona Nkambule is concerned with the safety of his colleagues in the army and the police, he must tell them to stop hunting us, otherwise those officers risk being killed for killing other citizens.
The Police Headquarters.