Mr Lucky Lukhele writes:
The article on King Mswati lll by a popular South African newspaper was more than correct. It shows a deeper understanding of the despot by observant people.

It was definitely insecurity in the face of a more powerful personality which caused Mswati lll to shift his birthday celebrations from the Easter weekend.
This act is not an isolated blunder on his part, but follows a consistent pattern of actions from a narcissistic dictator who yearns to be worshipped. To place this act in perspective, one needs to refer back to the mid-90s when Swaziland’s labour movement won the right to have May Day celebrated as a national holiday.
Feeling that the number of paid holidays had reached a ridiculous number, the king decided that one of them would have to be scrapped.
Despite having a wide choice of useless holidays to choose from, like the National Flag Day, a holiday which falls on King Mswati lll’s father’s birthday, and other more useless ones, he chose to scrap a Christian holiday, Ascension Day, instead.
When the Christian fraternity expressed its disapproval of this unilateral behaviour, the king reneged on his blunder and allowed the country to have one more holiday.
It is clear therefore that the narcissistic king wishes he was worshipped like Jesus Christ, if not more so. This was evident in the last national “people’s parliament” when his henchman, the Indvuna of Ludzidzini, told the people in attendance that Mswati lll was their earthly god, which is totally opposed to Christian teaching, which teaches that God is omnipotent and omniscient.
This also explains why, when Christians in the country celebrate the birth of their saviour on Christmas Day, Mswati lll performs satanic rituals at the Incwala ceremony where he dances naked, with his followers chanting, “Uyinkosi yamakhosi”, which means, “He is the king of kings,” a description that Christians reserve for Jesus.
Whatever the Swazi government tries to say to refute the newspaper’s article, will diminish into insignificance when the historical facts of his petty jealousy against the most-worshiped figure in the country, is exposed.