MBABANE – The people of Eswatini will soon have an even more decentralised means of learning about the Tinkhundla system in which they live. This comes after Minister of Tinkhundla David Ngcamphalala announced that a document which details how Tinkhundla work will be available to the public.
This is good news as most people, especially Eswatini youth, have never actually participated in the country’s politics through the constitutional Tinkhundla system – which is a direct participation in a representative democracy.
Minister Ngcamphalala made the announcement earlier today at the hearing of the senate portfolio committee. He was presenting the Ministry’s progress in the first quarter of the Government financial year. Speaking during the session, Minister Ngcamphalala revealed that “the ministry has done an outreach exercise to different constituencies. We only have 9 constituencies with which we haven’t yet conducted the exercise since we started office. What we’ve found in the constituencies and communities is that they ask us everything about the Tinkhundla system.”
Minister Ngcamphalala reavealed that in these exercises, they’ve been asked from 50 to over 100 questions per session. He also added that this has been ongoing even after the civil unrest that happened last year in June.
“The impact of this exercise has been about 80% of our goals. They talked about the education system of the Tinkhundla system in the last Sibaya national dialogue – we took this very seriously. We formed a team including academics in the country to help formulate the document,” revealed Minister Ngcamphalala.
This document
