In the 1960s, a wave of national independence broke out on the African continent, and in the next 10 years, more than 30 countries declared their liberation from colonial rule.
In 1960 alone, 17 countries declared their independence, hence the year known as the "Year of African Independence".
It is reasonable to say that the struggle for independence is to enable the people to live a better life, but the long-term colonial rule has deprived their society of its ability to develop normally, and after independence, it has become more and more regressive.
Eswatini among the first independent states of the sixties is a typical example.
Eswatini has been developing for 54 years now, but the people's livelihood situation is worse than when they first became independent - more than 60% of the country's citizens live below the poverty line, the average life expectancy is only 35 years old, 40% of people suffer from AIDS, and the proportion of diseases is the highest in the world.
The living environment there, the dogs all shook their heads when they looked at it. Even the most basic right to life of the people is difficult to guarantee, and the only thing that can be compared with it is probably the legendary hell.
Eswatini people suffered from tyranny for a long time, so they went to the streets last July to protest against the current king, and a wave of anti-monarchy swept the country.
In order to maintain its rule, the royal family dispatched military and police to ruthlessly suppress the people who rebelled, and suffered heavy casualties for a time. The prince flaunted his wealth on social networking sites while at the same time broadcasting live to mock the reformers who were lying on the streets.
Eswatini is the only monarchy in Africa today, and it is also one of the few "absolute monarchies" in the world.
The so-called absolute monarchy is: only "monarch" and not "constitutional". Eswatini there is no legal party and the monarch is in charge.
The current King Mswati III is the 67th son of the previous King Sobza II. He himself has 15 wives and concubines, 35 children, 19 Rolls-Royces and 120 BMW.
Seeing this, you know where the annual assistance that the United Nations gives to this big brother of Africa has gone.
So, what kind of country is Eswatini? Why is it so anti-heavenly?
First, born in South Africa, famous in the world
Eswatini, located in South Africa, has a population of 1.15 million and an area of 17,000 square kilometers, and is one of the so-called "countries with diplomatic relations" of the Taiwan authorities.
The country is not self-sufficient in food and has a per capita income of $100 per month. Not only is the economic development counting down, but the gap between the rich and the poor is also huge.
In stark contrast to the wailing of the people, the Eswatini royal family that sang night and night - Eswatini the national GDP is only 4 billion, but the king's private assets are actually 2 billion, dominating the Forbes list for many years.
Eswatini was originally a tribe in South Africa, and in 1902, with the end of the Boer War, Eswatini became a British colony.
During the British colonial period in South Africa, the British classified the Boer white colonies of transvaal, Orange, and Cape Town as the "Union of South Africa".
Eswatini, along with Botswana and Lesotho, were excluded from the South African Federation and had different systems to counterbalance the alienated Boers.
So after South Africa's independence in 1961, Eswatini did not become part of it.
On September 6, 1968, the Eswatini declared its independence, with the tribal chief Sobuza as the founding king, and the Zulu shield plus several spears as the flag of tianzi, the whole country seemed to have crossed directly from primitive society.
It is true, however, that Eswatini live deep inland, and the colonists sent only a few hundred mounted policemen to occupy them.
As a result, Eswatini not as accessible to new things as the relatively developed port cities of Cape Town and Pretoria in South Africa.
Since Eswatini had no valuable resources, the British implemented a policy of decentralization of the area, and the tribes only needed to submit to the British Empire, and the internal affairs were all autonomous.
That's why Eswatini tyranny prevails so much.
Second, the generation that was crushed by AIDS
What really makes Eswatini famous is the country's poor health care environment and the terrible proportion of AIDS patients.
In 1981, the first case of AIDS was reported in the United States, and expert studies have shown that the disease originated in West Africa.
Seven years later, a young man Eswatini went to South Africa to work, earning little money, but brought back HIV, which had just appeared.
Since then, HIV has spread rapidly and become uncontrollable. In six years, AIDS cases have increased N times.
So what is the Eswatini government doing? The answer is to do nothing and let the virus rage.
Because AIDS has a long incubation period, patients do not feel obvious discomfort, so Eswatini the authorities selectively ignore.
Coupled with the fact that the money in the treasury had been squandered by the king, the health department was unable to organize the screening and quarantine work, so it had to inform the people to drink more hot water.
The people are even more dissatisfied, thinking that although they are positive for the red code, they are not alive and well. Why be afraid of a virus that kills people decades later?
Although AIDS has terrible symptoms and is incurable, its transmission conditions are actually very harsh, and it can only be infected through three channels. So why is there so much Eswatini?
In addition to the unregulated trade in local skin and meat, it is also related to the outrageous marriage system.
Eswatini polygamy is a veritable "patriarchal happy country". The king took the lead in a group of wives and concubines, and every year he did not shyly organize 100,000 black sisters to choose concubines naked.
Even more ironical is the fact that the country's laws consider marriage pure and sacred and prohibit divorce.
The previous king had no political achievements, and his daily hobby was to create people. He married a hundred wives, worked day and night for decades, and left behind a thousand children and grandchildren.
Ordinary people are not idle, the poorer the more they can give birth, mother-to-child transmission leads to the next generation of Eswatini people are also AIDS.
So there is a situation of "you love me, I love you", and it is not surprising that half of the country's population is infected.
In 2000, the first AIDS patients began to die in horrific ways, Eswatini people felt for the first time the fear of being dominated by HIV.
In response to the current situation of AIDS in Eswatini, the British "Daily Telegraph" once asked with "concern": "Will this become the first country to be swallowed up by AIDS?" ”
As a result, Eswatini its own AIDS prevention coordinator and said, "If the situation continues, we as Eswatini people will become extinct." ”
Being spat at by the outside world, you can't sit idly by. The wise king came up with some tricks to do this. Although it looks outrageous, it seems to be quite useful.
Among them, the most classic is the brand marking method, that is, to burn a permanent brand on the buttocks of each AIDS patient. In this way, before they perform the ritual of the week, they only need to look at each other's buttocks to know whether they are AIDS patients or not.
This is similar to China's Yue Kang code many years later, but the smartphones Eswatini are not popular for the time being, and can only be like this.
The most inhumane is the Ascetic Law.
In order to stop the spread of AIDS in a way, the king ordered a ban on conjugal sexual activity for five years, forbidden to marry girls under the age of 18, and a daily allowance of $15 for virgins. Violators are fined a cow and forced to wear a chastity belt.
The people said yes, but your king has to take the lead first. Is The "Humanoid Teddy" of Komswati III a false name? Shortly after the new law was enacted on the front foot, the back foot married a 16-year-old girl.
When the news came out, the people were furious. The king only cares about his own happiness, and lets the people hold back, who does not scold the mother?
In order to appease the people's grievances, the king selected one from his pasture of 10,000 cattle and handed it over as a fine, which was similar to Cao Cao's style of "cutting his hair and acting as the head".
To tell a joke, the fate of Eswatini is not necessarily the destruction of the country, HIV is passed down from generation to generation, and over time it may be played by them, so that future generations will produce corresponding antibodies and become the first country to defeat AIDS.
As for how many years it will take to achieve this goal and how many people will die, it is not known.
Absurd countries, absurd diplomacy
In fact, just a little understanding of another strange custom in Eswatini will tell why AIDS is raging in this country.
The "Reed Festival" was originally a festival set up by the Zulu tribe to celebrate the adulthood of young girls, and on these days the girls danced in colorful short skirts to show their charm, and the elders taught them farming knowledge in the reed fields.
However, in order to collect black girls from all over the country, the king turned this traditional festival into a large-scale concubine gathering.
The maidens were asked to bring reeds into the palace for worship, and on the seventh day, they had to greet the king naked and dancing.
At the same time, the excited king will flexibly weave through the beauty bush, up and down his hands. He couldn't help but be lucky even on the spot, and the degree of fornication was even inferior to that of the Han Ling Emperor.
If a girl is pregnant with a dragon species, she can directly make a class leap to become one of the rulers.
Then the question arises. Playing like this every year, can the body eat it?
It's really overwhelming. The current king has not stopped day and night since he ascended the throne.
Due to overwork, my eyes are now dizzy, my memory is declining, my body is weak, and I can't even hold my chopsticks steadily. It has been several years since the Imperial Guard had been on the March.
The courtiers told him that now the West is not a "strange trick" called "live broadcast"? I can't go by myself, so can't I let a few slaves carry the camera to follow the whole process?
The king said, good! Yes! That's it!
Since then, every year during the Reed Festival, the king will sit in the palace by himself, while watching the 4K high-definition images transmitted from the scene, while remotely controlling the battle.
Eswatini not only is the monarch and his wife's elderly and young children in chaos, but they are also in a mess in terms of foreign relations, and it is no wonder that the people will live in the depths of the water.
Among them, the Taiwan authorities also have a certain responsibility for aiding and abetting abuse.
China is Eswatini's second-largest trading partner (the first is South Africa), but the country has always flouted the "one China" principle.
At present, Eswatini is the only "friend" of the Taiwan authorities in Africa. In order to maintain this level of relations, Taiwan can be said to be a great helper to the Eswatini.
In 2019, Eswatini received $50 million in Taiwan dollar support.
In January 2021, Mswati III and his seven princesses contracted COVID-19, but unfortunately the virus failed to defeat him because the medical team sent by the Taiwan authorities cured him.
In order to win the so-called "recognition" and use money to fool such an absurd country, the Taiwan authorities have also fought hard. But it is Eswatini this absurd country that will play with Taiwan's Cai Shi.
Afterwards, Mswati III also praised the dragon, saying that it was Cai who brought him a "miracle medicine".
But in contrast, the people are not so lucky - tens of thousands of confirmed patients in the country, only 3.2 percent of them have been vaccinated.
After so many years of tossing and turning by generations of kings, Eswatini has long been ruined, lost hope and future, and the unemployment rate once exceeded forty percent.
So, in July 2021, Eswatini finally erupted in an anti-monarchy march.
But today, when most countries have accepted the modern system, why is Eswatini royal family still unwilling to restrain the royal power?
The king also had reason to say, what is so bad about tyranny? Their territory has not experienced any major turmoil for hundreds of years, indicating that there is nothing wrong with living like this, and the ancestors are even more backward than they are now.
The so-called constitution and AIDS were brought about by colonialism, and the old king implemented an absolute monarchy as early as 1972.
For him, Eswatini only needed to live Eswatini life, even if it meant destruction.
Text/Ga baby
Reference: "Eswatini AIDS infection rate shows an upward trend", Wang Keqin