21/12/2025
By: Gift Mandlenkhosi Dlamini
As the year draws to a close, I wish to express my profound appreciation to the leadership and membership of SWALIMO, the broader Mass Democratic Movement (MDM), and our Solidarity Partners across the region and internationally, for the unwavering support extended to the International Relations and Affairs Office throughout this period.
The confidence placed in this office has not been taken lightly. It has been exercised with humility, discipline, and a deep sense of responsibility to the cause of the Swazi people. Our work has been guided not by convenience, but by principle; not by individual ambition, but by collective purpose.
The COSATU House Declaration of March 2025 remains a defining political and moral compass for our movement. It calls on us to lead with unity, to organise with love, to educate with clarity, to mobilise with discipline, and to engage the international community with purpose and dignity. These declarations are not ceremonial words; they are commitments that must find expression in our conduct, our leadership culture, and our daily political practice.
As we journey toward the National General Council in Plenum in March 2026, I encourage every SWALIMO member, leader, and ally to aspire not only to defend these declarations but to live by them. The strength of our struggle will be measured not by slogans, but by the consistency between what we proclaim and how we act.
The liberation of Eswatini will not be achieved through haste or hatred, but through conscious organisation, principled unity, and strategic international solidarity. History will remember those who stood firm, remained disciplined, and placed the people above self.
“A movement that governs itself by principle today, prepares itself to govern a nation tomorrow.”
Let us therefore continue to Educate. Mobilize. Liberate. With clarity of purpose, unity of action, and faith in the justness of our cause.