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Sir,

The greatest sin of our time must surely be the state of despair, misery, depression, confusion and nearly complete idleness of the youth which is a result of unemployment and underemployment of the youth in the country. I think not of a better time than now during this pandemic to express my frustrations and those of many young people who are trapped in poverty due to unemployment.

Virus

The virus has hit us greatly and its impacts are felt by many, but I put it to our youth that the effects of this outbreak might be even severely felt in more years to come. The virus has presented us with sickness, fear and death and it has also devastated the survival of many who have lost their jobs permanently and temporarily.

Eswatini over the years has been cursed with the simultaneous plagues of infection and poverty, both resulting to the collapse of a very pivotal group, the youth of this country. The youth are supposed to be the driving force of a new and better country, they are responsible for creating socio-economic, political, creative and constructive changes that will ensure a bright and prosperous future for the current and next generation. Sadly, this has not been happening for quite a while. With everyone bound by many social ills, the youth have been suffering even more. Many are stagnant (idle), some educated with no prospects of being employed. Given such harsh times and the disheartening reality, what exactly is the youth to do to survive?

There are numerous afflictions that have poured down on our young, presumed to be productive youth. From time to time we hear our elders in our communities complaining how immoral and lost our young people are.

Destruction

It is as if this generation has been consumed by the devils wishes for human destruction or maybe he has succeeded at his mission looking at the demise of our youth? Maybe to shed light to our leadership and elders, what exactly could result of a young generation that is just living without purpose, waiting for death to strike? The youth are just floating about, deeply emerged in nothingness and their idle state. Such waste of so much potential and talent!! Such demise is dangerous both to our current state of engagement in society and even worse towards the future. Our leadership in every aspect ought to repent before this idleness kills everything we call an Eswatini society which is thriving.

Remind

We need to remind ourselves the destructiveness that may come with an idle mind and how poisonous such a mind can be. It is the responsibility of the youth to come up with solutions to their own problems and be creative in finding better solutions to such problems, yet at the same time it is also the responsibility of our leadership to assist and aid youth development. Yes, our government is trying but surely it is not enough. The youth therefore has a critical mandate to discover and to create a new functional Eswatini filled with progression and the prevention of suffering.

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