SMSes for Fri 19 Dec 08
SMS Of The Day * I THINK African leaders do not know that they have to serve the people who elected them to power. It is not the other way around. – AA
Food for Thought
* GOOD Editor, please could you enable readers of the online version to comment and interact after each article. You would be amazed by the number of hits you would receive on the site. – Afrikan Comrade
* I AM referring to the Team Namibia SMS response. Please do your duty as a Namibian. Buy products with the Team Namibia logo. Do not turn your back on Namibian products just because the Government is buying Chinese labour. If you do not like what the Government is doing, vote it out of power instead of denying fellow Namibians job opportunities. Support Team Namibia products.
Bouquets and Brickbats
* DEAR Editor, I was filled with joy and appreciation as I watched you speak last night on One Africa Television News: thanks for having the courage to speak out.
* A BIG thank you to The Namibian newspaper for providing such wonderful service. Merry Christmas to all Namibians and a Happy New Year. – Martha
* I LOVE Shakes (of Supa Strikas) and guys that are like Gains. – Dix
* NDESHI & Jakes of today (Thursday) lacks tolerance and sensitivity on big family! Many people were born or raised in big families. Please, be sensitive!
* LET me thank Ms Mosimane at the Ministry of Finance medical aid. Thanks a lot. I wish all the employees there could handle us clients the same way. – Sililo
Education
* OKAY then we want to know how we will get our Grade 10 Namcol results if we do not have access to the Internet. Because the results are not coming out in the newspaper. And we all need our results.
* PLEASE we need the JSC results in the newspaper and not on SMS or on e-mail. It’s a waste of time. Better in the newspaper. – Frans Omafa CS
General
* UNTIL when? We read each day about other GRN departments buying cars. The latest is NamPol’s fleet of 700. Namibian Prison Service do something. We are transported to and from work in prisoner cars and always share the same car with sick prisoners. This causes a health hazard to us, especially shift workers. We need a small bus for safety and comfort. Please commissioner. – Pos, Hardap Prison
* DIFFERENCE between politics and soccer: In politics you hate both the game and the player. In soccer, spectators don’t play but in politics they kick it. Just like any player, the referee in politics can be the top goal scorer. – Nessy
* ALLOW me a space in your newspaper to give my proposal to reduce motor vehicle accidents in the whole country. Why can’t we build separate highways across the country? Just double the runway because the already existing motorways are too narrow to use with modern vehicles which are too fast. So it is very costly, but it would save many lives.
* I THINK some institutions like banks should have a dress code cause when the girls pick up something their whole bums are exposed!
* TO the City of Windhoek: Why are you demolishing people’s homes during the festive season without providing alternative accommodation? Why is it that the Chinese have their China Town , but our own people are left during the rainy season without a roof over their heads! What about the elite who are indebted for thousands of dollars for failing to pay their municipal accounts? Stop kicking the dogs that are already down. – Outraged Rates and Taxes Payer RB
* TO all bus owners, allow me to share this with all bus users particularly from Oshakati, Ondangwa, Oshikango and Eenhana. It has become a habitual practice to milk more and more money from bus users, the people whose economic status we know. Imagine how can it cost N$180 to transport a person. This is tantamount to corruption. I know these are private companies but the Anti-Corruption Commission should intervene. Now the fuel is going down what will be their reason? If they are doing that let their monthly tariff be hardly increased. Why do Rundu and Caprivi not have the same problem. Let us not colonise each other economically. Imagine those are the people employing people who cannot afford to buy even chicken while they are earning millions. – JP Northern Namibia
* DAYLIGHT robbery! Okalongo Ehangano filling station is still charging customers N$8,13. Please Ministry of Energy review their licence?
* WHAT a contrast? The ultimate moment of happiness when a couple gets married, on the back page and the saddest moment when a relationship turns sour, on the front page. I’m left with a prayer. Amen
* THE three-way stop intersection at Centaurus Street and Robert Mugabe Avenue works so well. Now, the City of Windhoek has set up traffic lights there, just to mess it all up!
* BOTH the CCO and the CO of the Windhoek Central Hospital are already on leave and all the paperwork needed to be signed now has to wait until next year! That’s what I call very bad, bad management, lacking proper communication or delegating skills!
* TUN seems to have lured us into a loan scheme over which they have no control. We have been trying to get hold of the so-called Mortgage Group in South Africa soon after their SMS in response to our application, but it was all in vain.
Service Please
* PLEASE FNB, improve your services in Katutura. Your branches open late and the queues are always long.
* THE print in the Telecom Directory 2009 is a problem when looking up names and numbers. Please go back to the old print. – Marjorie (70 years)
* NATIS Valley must fix up their visa card electronic payment system. We can’t always walk with cash around to pay their licence renewal fees. Besides it [using a card] reduces fraud!
* SHAME on Namib Contract Haulage. How dare they have such disrespect for people who support their business? Their bus loading zone is so chaotic - there is no order at the scales and trailers. They overbook people, give departure times they can’t honour. On December 17, I was among many passengers to Ombalantu at Soweto market for a 15h00 departure. After struggling to have things weighed, so many of us could not get places on the one bus available. We were informed to wait for a bus, and to our dismay, after all NCH buses departed at about 18h00, we were informed that the promised bus was no longer coming that evening, for reasons only known to NCH. We were told to either come back at 09h00 the next day or get refunds. Is that a proper way to treat people who make NCH what it is! Improve your service, it really sucks. – Disappointed NCH passenger
* NAMPOST Ondangwa our mail from Windhoek is taking almost three weeks to arrive. Is this a lack of manpower or what? Please recruit as we are unemployed. – Miss Tired Ondangwa
* STANDARD Bank Min Branch Windhoek. Specifically at enquiries, your service needs to improve before you lose customers. – Disappointed Client
In And From the Regions
* DEAR leaders! I want the Minister of Work and Transport and TransNamib management to meet and discuss building a weighbridge for the train close to the road between Ships Chandlers and the Namsov/Manica group? There’s a problem during lunch hour please. – Cde EShuundeni in Walvis Bay
* KFC please consider opening in Rundu. We want the best of the best!
* WHY doesn’t the Rundu Town Council pay attention to the GRN flats placing dustbins at all? From January to December rubbish just lay around like there as if there is no dustman for a town. Rundu Town Council do something to the GRN flats please!
* THE vans of various courier companies are being used as taxis especially between Rundu and Katima.
* NABTA tell us why people are using Katima buses and taxes more than it is indicated in your papers? A taxi is N$8 dollar and sometimes N$10. Why?
Politics
* IT’S interesting to see the former Swapo President [Sam Nujoma] so quiet about the behaviour of Robert Mugabe, does it mean he approves of that? The killing of innocent citizens, that’s how dictators operate, but they eventually succumb to pressure. – Matutjiua, Ongwediva.
* MRS (Margareth) Mensah-Williams should leave the media alone and concentrate on national dilemmas like education, health and the whole public service. What has the SMS page and the Chat Show to do with her? If politicians served the nation and not themselves then all would have been just be fine for all of us. The Namibian keep on telling it like it is!
Messages Of Condolence
* THE Grade 12s of 2004 Outjo Secondary School wish to express sincere condolences to the family and friends of our beloved daughter, sister, aunt and friend Annchen Shikwambi. May her soul rest in peace.
Health Matters
* OSHAKATI State Hospital is increasing patients’ diseases with dirty bedding. I am concerned because from Monday, when my mum was admitted in this hospital, nothing has been done about the changes of bedding even if she vomit. She is just under dirt. Nurses are telling that there is something wrong with their cleaning. Mr (Richard) Kamwi must do something this problem is taking too long.
* OSHAKATI State Hospital staff are tired of being discriminated against by people who are working with overtime. They used to go to Windhoek with a few claim papers, and come back with a few cheques for their friends and go back to get their S&T. We also need our money on time.
Labour Issues
* WE are working for Weatherly Mining Namibia. The company is going to close now but we do not know where we stand when it comes to our money. Please the Secretary General of MUN we want to see you. Please come and tell us about this issue. Why are you hiding?
Sporting
* WHY is Supa Strikas not focusing on the NPL?
* CORRY Ihuhua should start to attend soccer games and get involved like other reporters. How could you preview African Stars-Tigers game? They are not playing on Thursday.
* Apologies for putting in a preview on the Tigers against African Stars match. It should have been Stars against Hotspurs. I should have double-checked the fixture. I make every effort to attend matches but I also have to cover other sport codes.
– Sports Desk