Letters
Namibia, Beware of Kenya Politics
DEAR Editor, please allow me space in your esteemed newspaper to air my view in response to the SMS which appeared in The Namibian of Tuesday, 12 March 2013. It went as follows: “Uhuru Kenyatta is the president of Kenya, son of...[more]
Force Children To Care For Elders
MY CONTRIBUTION is to share my experience about caring for the elderly when I visited an Asian country a few months ago, where I learned that they have a system in place whereby an elderly person, a parent or any concerned...[more]
Namibia Has Improved, But...
INEQUALITIES in development and income are key for Namibians and the future, but it is disappointing that your columnist and Orkum’s Misery Index (‘Namibians are Miserable’, 7 March) join so many media in continuing to use...[more]
Regrading And Adult Education
I WAS lucky to get hold of the civil service regrading document and I am very disappointed that adult education was not mentioned anywhere. We were made to believe that we would get our own grading policy, but it seems we are...[more]
One Eye Is Not An Inability
I AM highly concerned about our leaders who do not allow people to be treated equally, especially those categorised as one-eye disabled.[more]
We Demand What Is Ours
I AM a ‘struggle kid’ who never saw my father; neither do I know from where he came. I understand that his absence in my life is because of my freedom as well the rest of Namibians and I have acknowledged that fact.[more]
Denied Residency
MINISTER of Home Affairs and Immigration, Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana, congratulations on your speech at the ministry’s recent annual planning workshop in Swakopmund as reported by The Namibian![more]
Set Aside Tribal Agenda
DEAR Editor, please allow me to share some of my observations during the recent elections which took place in Kenya where the citizens of this country elected their new President for the next five years, Uhuru Kenyatta.[more]
Spend Shrine Money On The Living
I AM begging President Pohamba not to go ahead and spend millions of dollars on the heroism of King Mandume and King Iipumbu while those two individuals’ grandchildren have no money to go to school to become doctors, scientists,...[more]
Air Namibia And Hospitality
I RECENTLY had the opportunity to visit your country for a short holiday. I arrived in your country, flying Air Namibia, on 13 February and was pleasantly surprised at the comfort and service I received from this airline. One...[more]
Do Not Ignore ‘Struggle Kids’
AS A Swapo Party loyal member and a ‘war veteran cadre’, I am very much disturbed and disappointed by the fact that the Swapo-led government and the party itself are ignoring the ‘struggle children’s’ cries.[more]
The Injustice Of Government Regrading
THE planned shake-up in government salaries perpetuates economical injustices among teachers, contrary to the supposed narrowing of the gap between different teaching categories driven by the Nantu [Namibia National Teachers’...[more]
On Perception And Public Health
I WISH to echo and support the deputy minister of health and social services, Petrina Haingura, who bemoaned the perception and attitudes of our public health workers. [more]
Ethnic Conflict And The Constitution
FEBRUARY 9 this year marked the 23rd anniversary of the adoption by the Constituent Assembly of the Namibian Constitution. [more]
Who Speaks For You When Your Parents Are Dead?
PLEASE allow me to express my honest feelings about the ‘struggle kids’.[more]
Passports And Smokescreens
THIS is a response to the March 6 2013 article ‘Ithana Apologises for Passport Chaos’. [more]
Biased Development
“I WAS misled” were the words of a supposed investor when he was told to stop illegal activities he has engaged in at the affected villages in Ndiyona constituency in Kavango Region by the Kavango Communal Land Board [The...[more]
African Leaders Still Following
WHEN America, the United Kingdom and France support opposition leaders in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, no other world leaders make noise, but now, the United Nations (UN) leader Ban Ki Moon has said that “foreign countries (who)...[more]
Exhausting Telecom Contracts
PLEASE allow me space in your newspaper to air my concerns over Telecom Namibia contracts of engineering technicians in training (ETiTs). ETiTs are graduates who enter the company with a diploma in electronic/power engineering.[more]