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The Namibian
Mon 12 Aug 2013
SMS Of The Day * MINISTRY of Gender and Child Welfare, TEARS are rolling down as I write this SMS. The killing of women in Namibia is now like reciting a poem. Are we really getting the protection we deserve while women not being treated as part of this c Food For Thought * SO the Zimbabwe elections were free and peaceful and not free and fair? Bouquets And Brickbats * NURSES at Katutura Hospital must stop wearing those big plastic sandals at work because they are not the official working shoes. We want to see you looking smart and beautiful with your full uniform. SMS Of The Day * THIS nation is in dire need of a massive conference on housing. When we experienced a crisis in the education sector a crisis-control brain-storming conference was organised which resulted in the best deal ever for the Namibian child, nam Food For Thought * BOURGEOISIE has become a daily occupation if not the order of the day of the upper-echelons, President Hifikepunye Pohamba we urge you to revisit this unpatriotic geocentricism among your staff and the well-connected, for everybody to r Bouquets And Brickbats * COMMISSIONER of Prisons, can you please explain the strategies you use to appoint officers to certain positions? It is my observation that you are being fed with wrong information then you just promote individuals without making p SMS Of The Day * I THINK Paulus ‘The Rock’ Ambunda lost his belt because of this promoter and trainer. How can a world champion still be training at the Katutura Youth Complex where there is not enough equipment. I think they must follow the example of Ha Food For Thought * NAMIBIA Dairies are unable to match low prices of imported milk and this ultimately means the consumer will have to pay more for local milk. Look at the prices of the local chicken. All these profits are going in the pockets of a few in Bouquets And Brickbats * I AM pleased to hear that Cabinet has responded positively to the proposal of Namibia Dairies to support the industry. The restrictions which support the industry by reducing competition to ensure the survival of the industry is a SMS Of The Day * CEO’s golden handshakes. Somewhere on our statute books there must be a provision that if a board of directors suspends/dismisses a CEO without due regard to legal provision (substantive/procedural law) such board must carry the costs for Food For Thought * JACKY Asheeke was so right with her last column- why are the fathers of the dead children not being prosecuted? (Reference to the children who died in shack fires last week) Our justice system still protects men over women. In this cont Bouquets And Brickbats * ALEXACTUS Kaure, your column in Friday’s newspaper opened my eyes. One hardly finds impartial case study analysers in Namibia. Let’s not destroy the Polytechnic’s strong foundation (Tjivikua) as yet. At least wait until the transf
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| 2013-08-09
Listen To The Voice Of Reason
WELL, well, can people differ again with regard to the credibility of elections in Zimbabwe? Are some of us naïve? If the previous elections were completely rigged, why should something have changed?
Remember, President Robert Mugabe told the world after he lost the last one: “We blundered!” This time, there was no ‘blunder’. His organisation obviously rigged everything perfectly. Only a man favouring Mugabe over the people of Zimbabwe can state that the old man won fairly.
Since about the mid-eighties – almost 30 years ago - the world watched Mugabe killing 20000 Zimbabweans in Matabeleland; Mugabe certainly is a cold-blooded, pitiless killer. And when things really and catastrophically went wrong for him in 2000, he tried to squash all his critics. His tools of oppression included, again, ruthless killings. He also cheated, used the lie and used attacks based on racism, whereby he succeeded to destroy his own country’s economy.
By the way, without Morgan Tsvangirai’s doings, Zimbabwe, by now, would have been a dead and rotten country – Mugabe knows that well! Mugabe’s doings drove millions of his people out of Zimbabwe ‘to fend for themselves’, people who tried to find their livelihood in the neighboring countries. Because of that, hatred ignited in South Africa; the often-jobless South Africans thought the Zimbabweans were stealing their few jobs, their bread.
Everybody should know these facts; even our younger people should acquire the true historical knowledge. Even our leaders, who are too often seem completely disconnected from history. What could force our President to utter the words we now heard from Hifikepunye Pohamba in regard of the outcome of the Zimbabwe election? Is it the Namibian political system? Is it ‘his master’s voice’?
We Namibians should start thinking! Listening to the voices of reason is never insane! Listening to those who try to make a monster look like an angel by hailing Mugabe’s ‘successes’ is completely insane. Giving Mugabe a free hand after this election will finish Zimbabwe; Mugabe will eventually complete what he tried to do before Tsvangirai rescued Zimbabwe.
Don’t we remember the inflation and empty store shelves, the gross misery? Don’t we remember the exodus of millions of young Zimbabweans? Does our President not remember it?
Virginia X Mundjindi
Wanaheda
Remember, President Robert Mugabe told the world after he lost the last one: “We blundered!” This time, there was no ‘blunder’. His organisation obviously rigged everything perfectly. Only a man favouring Mugabe over the people of Zimbabwe can state that the old man won fairly.
Since about the mid-eighties – almost 30 years ago - the world watched Mugabe killing 20000 Zimbabweans in Matabeleland; Mugabe certainly is a cold-blooded, pitiless killer. And when things really and catastrophically went wrong for him in 2000, he tried to squash all his critics. His tools of oppression included, again, ruthless killings. He also cheated, used the lie and used attacks based on racism, whereby he succeeded to destroy his own country’s economy.
By the way, without Morgan Tsvangirai’s doings, Zimbabwe, by now, would have been a dead and rotten country – Mugabe knows that well! Mugabe’s doings drove millions of his people out of Zimbabwe ‘to fend for themselves’, people who tried to find their livelihood in the neighboring countries. Because of that, hatred ignited in South Africa; the often-jobless South Africans thought the Zimbabweans were stealing their few jobs, their bread.
Everybody should know these facts; even our younger people should acquire the true historical knowledge. Even our leaders, who are too often seem completely disconnected from history. What could force our President to utter the words we now heard from Hifikepunye Pohamba in regard of the outcome of the Zimbabwe election? Is it the Namibian political system? Is it ‘his master’s voice’?
We Namibians should start thinking! Listening to the voices of reason is never insane! Listening to those who try to make a monster look like an angel by hailing Mugabe’s ‘successes’ is completely insane. Giving Mugabe a free hand after this election will finish Zimbabwe; Mugabe will eventually complete what he tried to do before Tsvangirai rescued Zimbabwe.
Don’t we remember the inflation and empty store shelves, the gross misery? Don’t we remember the exodus of millions of young Zimbabweans? Does our President not remember it?
Virginia X Mundjindi
Wanaheda
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