"Greed and desire for financial gain continue to shape the character of Swazi middle class opposition politics. The Swazi middle class opposition is politically weak on principles and ideology, and easily conforms, or pretends to believe in the traditional political framework, for purposes of grabbing available opportunities for accumulation through the state pathway. They have raised a number of issues to justify their actions. The most common response has been that they aimed at changing the traditional system from within. The assumption here is that once they are appointed to influential positions they will influence a change of policy to democratise the traditional political system. However, time has shown that such an assumption has failed to translate to reality". From Lwati: A Journal of Contemporary Research, Vol 3, 235-251, "Conformers and Pretenders: The Case of Middle Class Political Opposition in Swaziland, 1962-2000, By Hamilton Sipho Simelane.
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