Letters
Why Rely On Foreign Doctors and Nurses?
I HAVE some questions that I would like to ask the Ministry of Health and Social Services. [more]
Pedestrian Crossings In Katima
THANKS dear editor for allowing me space in your esteemed newspaper. Let me get straight to the heart of the matter: we pedestrians are concerned over the nonexistence of pedestrian crossings in Katima Mulilo.[more]
Councillors’ Free Trip to China
AS A Namibian I really felt disgraced when I read a story in The Namibian that officials in Rundu were given free trips to visit the hometown of a Chinese lady called Stina Wu. [more]
Survival Of The TIPEEG
PLENTY has been said about TIPEEG (the government’s Targeted Intervention Programme for Employment and Economic Growth). [more]
Flood Relocation Is Impossible
IN REPLY to the article in the Caprivi Vision dated August 2011 with the heading ‘Flood victims urged to move permanently’, I would like to say that the organisation which had the gala dinner where pledges were made to the amount...[more]
Wealth For All Namibians
IT IS high time that all Namibians become allergic to poverty. The Government should therefore empower every Namibian in its efforts to eradicate poverty. [more]
Lack of Service Stinks
DURING the month of December, using e-mail becomes a problem; we found that out in 2010 and now, in 2011, it is the same. My e-mails stick and do not want to send and overall, the MTC technology is at an all time low, service and...[more]
One Stop Rail and Road Freight Solution
TRANSNamib’s advert with the above subject appeared on page 2 of the Republikein of 30 December 2011. [more]
Climb On A Pioneer’s Shoulders
THERE was an attempt to distort my argument on why Professor Gunter Heimbeck should be appointed a Professor Emeritus (‘Is the Math Professor top class?’ The Namibian’s Readers’ Letters 9 December 2011).[more]
Accidents Caused By Slow Drivers?
I CAME back from the north the other day and again realised that in my opinion the slow drivers are the major cause for overtaking, which leads to leaving the lane and going over into the oncoming traffic lane.[more]
Death To Drug Couriers
WHY are people so upset about the execution of a South African woman in China for drug smuggling? Drugs destroy millions of lives every year. The same people shouting about ‘human rights’ would sing a different song if one of...[more]
No To Selling Babies!
I WOULD like to thank the Ministry of Gender Equality and Child Welfare, in particular Rosa Nikanor, for publicly raising objections to advertising private adoption or selling babies (The Namibian of 14 December 2011). [more]
Creditworthy For Job?
I HAVE been plagued for several years with a certain peculiar policy currently still practiced in this country by some if not all private companies.[more]
Christmas Nostalgia
IT IS Christmas time again, a season for sharing and worshipping the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ. For some, all roads have begun to lead to the villages and for others to various holiday destinations, notably the coast. [more]
Commanders Must Be Transferred
WE welcome the transfer of police commissioners and other senior commanders in the Namibian Police but more has to be done. What is surprising to the National Democratic Party is a concern about other ‘untouchable’ police...[more]
Bury The Past, Look To The Future
I FINISHED high school towards the end of the Cape Education System, 1994, to be precise. To date, I have had the privilege to teach at three different schools in Kavango Region and at least one school in Kunene Region.[more]
Cut Branches Or Chop The Tree?
THIS a comment on a letter titled ‘Gun Ownership Is A Right’ published in The Namibian dated 2 December 2011.[more]
The Rewards Of Sacrifice…
I NOTE with interest some of the misconceptions currently circulating around the broad issue of payments for Namibian war veterans and reparations for the earlier genocide.[more]
Youth Unite Against Corruption
MY QUESTIONS go to all Namibian youth, especially the underprivileged. [more]
On Gratitude
IF you cannot be thankful, tomorrow you will steal; and if you cannot ask, nobody will give to you.[more]