BY MBONO MDLULI
MBABANE – Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) Thulisile Dladla is pleading with staff members of the Mankayane Old Age Home to continue taking care of the elderly people and children under the care of that establishment.
Dladla made this plea on February 7, 2025 when making a visit to that homestead to see how the elderly people are being taken care of. Upon reaching the establishment, Dladla was welcomed by many different officials, who included Manzini Regional Administrator (RA) Chief Gija, who was represented by Manzini Regional Secretary (RS) Arnold Dlamini.
Others who welcomed the DPM included Ngwemphisi Member of Parliament (MP) Bhekibandla Vilakati and Phondo MP Bonginkhosi Dube. Mankayane Town Board Chairperson Thembi Mabeleza was also part of the people who were at the establishment.
Speaking during the event, Dlamini thanked the DPM for taking care of the elderly and other vulnerable people. He viewed the elderly people as being lucky because they stayed in a very healthy place. He said the water that passed through the area was pure and there was no firm that contaminated it. He further mentioned that the environment was still not contaminated or polluted in any way, including the oxygen they breathed.
Mabeleza commended the DPM for bringing gifts in form of food hampers to the elderly people and children. She hoped that these gifts would enable them to be happy, as they would feel loved by this gesture. Mabeleza said the gifts would address the problems of hunger. She also praised the DPM for providing a jersey cow, which would provide fresh milk for the elderly people.
MP Vilakati praised the DPM for heeding to the ‘Nkwe’ command by His Majesty King Mswati III, stating that it looked like Dladla had applied it even more than many youthful people in the country. Vilakati wished that God could bless the DPM because she had already reached all the regions because of the command.
MP Dube pleaded with Government to see if it could not be possible to convert its idle structures to become clinics, so that they could be used to render medical services to the elderly people.
