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Hello my friends, Its the Opinionated African here. I am back in Swaziland so things are a bit different.
For those of you who have been missing my sometimes boring sometimes brame and sometimes very amusing musings I am today very glad to let you know that I am now able to blog once more. As I have said before, I am in SWAZILAND. Because of that I have to change a few things in my writting approach. There are reasons for this of course but the main one is that I am now more Christian than before. This may look simple if not plain right stupid for you but I ASSURE you that it is a valid reason...especially once you remember that being Christians also means respecting those in power. Even more so when those in power are not against God.
With that tiny bit out of the way we can now go into the other reason. Put simply, Swaziland is a Kingdom. its politics are not dual in nature and they are not likely to be any time soon. In other words-this is not a Banana Republic. This means that what I usually write about is potentially troublesome here and as such I am going to have to go back to my roots and exercise some restraints. It is a huge minus I know but there are a number of huge pluses as well. CULTURE is one instance of those pluses and things here are rather tightly packed, meaning that with a little money I CAN go VISIT any part of the country I WANT TO VISIT. Oh and I can actually AFFORD TO do that nice bit for as little as R50(E50). Very much unlike South Africa.
Of curse, South Africa is great. That country has got things like FREE SPEECH, DEMOCRACY(which is democrazy these day) and freedom of association. Swazis are very familiar with all of these things(contrary to what modern history and propaganda would have you believe) but their practice is practiced in another way. The king called it MONARCHIAL DEMOCRACY. I haven't studied it much but I am very sure it is nowhere close to the DEMOCRAZY going on in SOUTH AFRICA. Non the less, it is a step into this monster they call democracy. What is ours as Christians and other God and peace loving folks in Swaziland is to hope we will not end up with another RUSSIA a few years down the line. A country like Russia is no good for unyielding Christian folks...JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES for an example.
All that aside, I am hopping Swaziland will prove fruitful. I hope I will be able to write more and grow spiritually strong and good. I promise I will bring some of the best SWAZILAND has to offer. Comming back here offers me an opportunity to explore my no politics side. I will find things of inerest and write about Swaziland in that light. A FEW have already bumped into me; things like UMHLANGA REED DANCE, MBABANE CITY, LIST OF ORGANIZATIONS IN SWAZILAND, WOMAN,YOUTH,AGRICUT RTAINMENT. Oh and some topics on CHISTIANITY of course.
For those of you who have been missing my sometimes boring sometimes brame and sometimes very amusing musings I am today very glad to let you know that I am now able to blog once more. As I have said before, I am in SWAZILAND. Because of that I have to change a few things in my writting approach. There are reasons for this of course but the main one is that I am now more Christian than before. This may look simple if not plain right stupid for you but I ASSURE you that it is a valid reason...especially once you remember that being Christians also means respecting those in power. Even more so when those in power are not against God.
With that tiny bit out of the way we can now go into the other reason. Put simply, Swaziland is a Kingdom. its politics are not dual in nature and they are not likely to be any time soon. In other words-this is not a Banana Republic. This means that what I usually write about is potentially troublesome here and as such I am going to have to go back to my roots and exercise some restraints. It is a huge minus I know but there are a number of huge pluses as well. CULTURE is one instance of those pluses and things here are rather tightly packed, meaning that with a little money I CAN go VISIT any part of the country I WANT TO VISIT. Oh and I can actually AFFORD TO do that nice bit for as little as R50(E50). Very much unlike South Africa.
Of curse, South Africa is great. That country has got things like FREE SPEECH, DEMOCRACY(which is democrazy these day) and freedom of association. Swazis are very familiar with all of these things(contrary to what modern history and propaganda would have you believe) but their practice is practiced in another way. The king called it MONARCHIAL DEMOCRACY. I haven't studied it much but I am very sure it is nowhere close to the DEMOCRAZY going on in SOUTH AFRICA. Non the less, it is a step into this monster they call democracy. What is ours as Christians and other God and peace loving folks in Swaziland is to hope we will not end up with another RUSSIA a few years down the line. A country like Russia is no good for unyielding Christian folks...JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES for an example.
All that aside, I am hopping Swaziland will prove fruitful. I hope I will be able to write more and grow spiritually strong and good. I promise I will bring some of the best SWAZILAND has to offer. Comming back here offers me an opportunity to explore my no politics side. I will find things of inerest and write about Swaziland in that light. A FEW have already bumped into me; things like UMHLANGA REED DANCE, MBABANE CITY, LIST OF ORGANIZATIONS IN SWAZILAND, WOMAN,YOUTH,AGRICUT RTAINMENT. Oh and some topics on CHISTIANITY of course.
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