* AFTER the San, the Nama are being disrespectfully sidestepped by Government. How can people from the North be resettled in the South while the Namas live in a corridor? And then people wonder why ethnic tension is rearing its ugly head. I am from the North and think it is not fair to resettle us at the expense of the Namas.

Food For Thought

* IF government fears the people, it's democracy, if people fear the government, it's tyranny. (Benjamin Franklin) Welcome Morgan, Goodbye Robert.

* WHAT'S happening to Namibia? It seems each time you hear petrol prices are up again, electricity is up too. My question is what's next? With the salaries we all are earning we won't have anything left to feed our families. Are we becoming the next Zimbabwe?

Hospital SOS

* MINISTRY of Health, please organise your management. Nurses at the Katutura casualty were left in a dilemma on Saturday from 20h00, because there was no casualty officer to attend to emergencies. Efforts were made to get a doctor, but all in vain. Do you call this a Ministry of Health or a "ministry of shame and disaster"? Please wake up and pay the nurses at the casualty what they deserve by acting as mini-doctors in order to save lives. State patients who were critical were forced to either go to Medi-Clinic or to the Roman Catholic Hospital or back home for those whose relatives can't afford high medical charges. Viva to all Katutura casualty nurses. You are heroes!

* PEOPLE of Namibia wake up! You were the ones who were blaming the nurses for the death of the victim of the snakebite. Now how come the casualty ward is without a doctor at end of the month on May 3? Are they not at risk of killing again?

Zim Impasse

* AS a Zimbabwean, I am totally flabbergasted and angered by what is happening. An illegitimate regime led by Mugabe, despite being voted out by the people, is still calling the shots and causing havoc on defenceless innocent Zimbabweans. All this with the blessings of the AU, SADC and UN who remain divided, inactive and undecided on the crisis. Some of them are falling over each other negotiating ways to appease the dictator, via 'an honourable exit'. What hogwash! Zimbabweans voted him out - Mugabe must just go and leave us in peace!!

* CAN our Government please stop nobodies like Muheua from disrupting the peace in Namibia by trying to score cheap brownie points. Maybe Muheua must go and stay in Zimbabwe if he has so much sympathy for Mugabe. You will not survive sir!

* PERHAPS Alpheus Muheua should undertake a trip to Zimbabwe to go and see the misery and violence that is happening there. I am sure that the NUNW does not support this. - Tobias

* THE mind of the electorate is now so fixed against Mugabe that if he were to contest against a donkey in the run-off, the donkey would win by a landslide not because anyone would vote for it, but simply because people would vote against Mugabe, said Jonathan Moyo, former Minister of Information in Zimbabwe. Based on this, I as a peace-loving African would like to encourage members of the opposition to put on a brave fight at the ballot box and defeat dictatorship once and for all. I am fully convinced that all peace-loving Africans are for regime change in Zimbabwe. - L 'Toxic' Noriega, Democrat forever

* NGURARE does not want us to watch BBC, CNN or Sky News on DStv. Does he know that Swapo is a main shareholder of DStv Namibia?

MUGABE must retire.

* ALPHEUS shame on you. Stop blaming your weaknesses on the white man. Please get your tools cleaned and start working on contributing to the wealth of the whole nation and not only the elite few. Stop dreaming, Mugabe has now overstayed his welcome, he should rather go farming and write a book.

* WORKERS join hands and do something about our blind leader Muheua. Sir, unfortunately we realise you need a special brain to separate politics and Workers' Day. Do us a favour and leave. You failed Ramatex till its closure. Now Zimbabwe's come, put on Zimbabwean shoes and tell us if they fit.

* KAARONDA must be blind or in denial of the fact that Europe has true democracy. That people there criticise and participate in democratic debates without being intimidated, as it is the case in Africa, where Kaaronda is addressing the workers to support and respect Zanu-PF saying Africans have their own ways of resolving problems. Is Kaaronda telling us that we Africans should support and respect undemocratic behaviour like beating up people who oppose ruling parties in Africa, muzzling and shutting up the media and the voice of people, respecting selfish and corrupt autocratic leaders who dare violate the rule of the law and the Constitution to try anything to cling onto power for as long as they prefer? Are you a reflection of your masters? Can you be relied on to represent workers' needs or just to pay lip service to them and serve yours and your masters' political ambitions of no change of regime in Africa? Grow up!

* UNION leaders should not use the Workers' Day platform for their political ambitions. Whether you like it or not, Mugabe is the cause of suffering of the Zimbabwe people. Therefore, they voted for change. Your barking is irritating us. Shut up!

* IS Mr Ngurare of the Swapo Youth League serious or has the entire league completely lost its vision? What is happening in Zimbabwe is not to be blamed on the imperialists: Mugabe is responsible for all the suffering of the Zimbabwe people. The people of Zim decided to get rid of him for the better through a democratic process. - Helvey, Windhoek

* MR Ngurare, I just hope that you will never rule Namibia, because then we will end up as a second Zimbabwe. Can you explain who and where the Van der Merwes came from?

From The Regions

* PLEASE Mr Ndilula, tell us when we the people of Omafa are going to have clean water. We are tired of drinking dirty water.

* I AM concerned about the gravel road between Khorixas and Fransfontein. I want development on this road like on other roads. The bridge on this road also has too many problems for the drivers. Please take this seriously, we want development on this road.

* PLEASE allow me to air my concern in your newspaper. Our Swapo office has been without office bearers for a long time. Please, something is wrong at Luederitz. Hon Abraham, come to Luederitz to resolve this problem.

* WHAT is wrong with the Ohangwena Education Region's Finance Office? There is a chronic delay of paying newly employed and promoted staff. Or is it the case in the whole country? We are tired of working for nothing! They MUST stop being incompetent and execute their duties in a satisfactory manner!

Politics In General

* NAMPOWER, this is just one more reason why we will struggle to become a first-world country. Where are the values of transparency and equity? I guess it's true what they say the tone at the top dictates.

* MR ASSER Ntinda of Namibia Today, why are you quiet on the Avid Seven? Why are you suppressing citizens' right to information for the party's convenience? I was expecting the headlines in your paper to read like this: 'Former Deputy Minister and SPYL Secretary General behind bars' or 'Paulus Ilonga Kapia and cohorts arrested for corruption', with his finger-wagging picture on the side. - General SN

* WHAT a shock! Paulus Noa looked into the Oshikwanyama issue quickly, maybe the officials have Oshindonga teachers as friends or relatives who they want to appoint in their place!

* I AM a resident of Enghandja village in Ohangwena Region. We are suffering too much. Not even access to basics, such as water, etc. But Enghandja has been the centre of liberation battles, now we are forgotten. Okay let it go that way.

* WOULD someone please tell us why pensioners at Grootfontein still receive N$370 and not N$450 as promised? We in Grootfontein even buy carry bags for 50 cents each! I really feel pity for them.

* DO you believe yourself when you say the RDP is promising people free transport when voted into power?

Taxing Issues

* MR President of Namibia, Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and all Cabinet decision makers. Do you read newspapers and see the prices of houses especially in Windhoek? If you do, have you noticed that most civil servants do not qualify to buy houses, not even in Katutura? The loans and the subsidies are too little. Please look at us Mr Pohamba, Mr Nahas and Mrs Libertina. We cannot afford houses and want to have homes for our children. Help us! I want feedback.

* WHO regulates the GRN tax? If it is our leaders, please understand that the income tax is too high for civil servants' survival. When are we eradicating poverty?

* THE Ministry of Veterans, according to the Government's budget, our brothers and sisters, fathers and mothers, must also included. They must also be paid out for the hard job they have done to liberate our country.

* CAN the Ministry of Education not investigate the possibility of opening some schools, of which our country's children are in desperate need, in the Ramatex buildings, instead of the current tent schools. Surely it will cost less than building new schools!

* SOLDIERS have heard about free HIV-AIDS testing in the whole country but the authorities are still quiet. Some of us desire to know our status. Permission to go, please sir.

General

* SOMEBODY said in yesterday's SMS, "speak out against all the births". Well I don't agree, it's a right. However perhaps you can say affordability should be considered in an advisory way though. Remember the GRN has a legal obligation to take care of the elderly. By the time you become old they must pay you too, but from taxes paid for by someone younger than you. Ask countries with low birth rates what challenges they face, e.g. Japan and Sweden. You might even have to retire at a later age then 60. Let's not be baby phobic!

* FIRST Link (FNB Insurance Brokers) please improve your customer service. Why is it that one has to call every day in order for the claim to be attended to and that takes approximately three weeks just to appoint an assessor? We are paying each and every month but when it comes to the service it's like someone who is being helped for free. Please do something.

* NBC, we are very tired of enduring the repetition and boring programmes, for example 'The Apprentice'. Come up with educating but yet entertaining programmes.

* WHY is it that the Namibia Amateur Boxing Federation does not hold AGMs as per their constitution?

* WHEN I was in primary school a decision to purchase a presidential jet was popularly criticised. The jet is now being used by the second president of a young democracy. One day we will appreciate the new State House. African countries can learn something from Namibia, even older states like Zim and Kenya.

* THANKS that our Head of State listens to every mouth and acts in accordance with the law. I salute you, Mr President! - NW, Okatale

* WHAT is going at our Ministry of Home Affairs? There have been no abridged birth certificates available since last year. Apparently there is no stock.

* IS Outsurance a product for only Afrikaners? Or why do they only advertise in the Republikein and mostly in Afrikaans?

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