SMSes for Fri 03 Apr 09
* LAST week we lost our older brother, due to a car accident. The same week we lost our lovely sister, killed by her boyfriend at Oshikango. She was killed in the eyes of public. My question is why the public cannot assist someone being killed in front of them? My heart is sore because of that murder. The killer must be given a heavy punishment. – PPP, Windhoek
Food For Thought
* WE are tired of this winter time change. Keep the time just as it is. If the Government cannot do anything, then let us vote on the winter time. Because we do not need it. We want summer time throughout the year.
Gotcha!
* THAT April Fool underpants story is good. Well done!
* WHAT an April’s Fools Day! N$17 000 is too much for the pants. I have tried to pack, only N$10 000. Thanks. Keep it up. – That was not our April Fool’s story! That one IS true. Our April Fool’s story is the one about the dress code for journalists! – Newsdesk
* UH! I must say Timo Amuthenu looked hot in those stuffed undies!
* I FELL hook, line and sinker for both The Namibian and the Republikein’s April Fool’s jokes. They were brilliant! – April idiot
* NAKED journalists! Wish April Fool’s jokes could come true!
* HIGH heels are a health risk (bad for the back) and forcing women to wear dresses is sexist. Especially when you have to kneel, bend or run to take photos as a news photographer. – Non-journalist
* I’VE waited for so long for the state to come up with a dress code for our societies and starting with the journalists should just be the beginning. Thanks GRN. –E-LM
* A DRESS code for journalists should be upheld. Recently a New Era journalist covered a funeral in the North wearing shorts. King Taapopi and other Government officials attended those proceedings. I was embarrassed.
The Long Wait
* GOOD work Parliament, I fully support the 10-year marriage retention. It’ll reduce or put an end to the crazy life of foreign hunts through prostitution, escorts, stripteases and gigs. Marriage to a foreigner promises a different type of life, but precisely because of that our nation is at the dawn of losing their cultural values and Namibian traditions. People are suffering at the hands of foreign nations just because of citizenship. Well done and I hope in future maintenance of kids born out of wedlock in Namibia, by foreigners and raised by a single parent as a result of separation or divorce, will be raised to N$1 000 or more.
* THEY want to increase citizenship by marriage to 10 years. It will also affect your children in future. Many countries need a population to attract investors. Namibia is driving foreigners away because they hate foreigners marrying Namibians. Changing from two years to 10 years is too much.
* CITIZENSHIP laws will affect all of us who have married a foreign man or woman out of good faith and who will marry ones in the near future. It is unfair to change the citizenship laws based on a few cases of “quick-fix marriages”. Why not evaluate the different cases individually instead of punishing all Namibians marrying non-Namibians? MPs should think about think the long-term effect their decisions have on the ordinary citizen.
Running The Show
* WE are closely linked to the South African economy. If they raise petrol, so do we. If they drop interest rates, so do we. So can somebody please tell me why do our pensioners get less than half their amount. We get N$450 and they get R1 050 per month.
* I SYMPATHISE with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. They are not the only ones suffering. At the Ministry of Works in Gobabis we have a similar problem, but ours is the copier. We don’t have a copier and we have to rely on other line ministries for assistance. Our copier is out of order and head office cannot provide us with a new one fast enough. It’s been months now.
* IF the Ministry of Home Affairs wants to decrease the demand for new passports, why don’t they extend the validity of the passports to 10 years? Currently it’sfive years and then you have to get a new one, even if you’ve only used one page. Most Namibians don’t travel enough to fill their passports in five years!
* MINISTRY of Home Affairs, I don’t know where to turn to anymore. I got married to a Tanzanian in 2003 after the birth of our kids now aged 9 and 7 years old but my husband is still without a permanent residence permit. Where should we go?
Old Soldiers
* WAR veterans, who pays for your handouts? We the taxpayers, and you are not even prepared to work for your money! I say go for projects – let us all work for our money. It will be a nice change for most of us!!
Bouquets And Brickbats
* OUR PM using his private car and his own money is commendable. Others use GRN Navaras and Toyotas even on their private trips. PM God bless you.
* AIR Namibia, your small aircraft are the cleanest. Thank you.
* THANK you Maerua Supa Spar for excellent customer care. We didn’t mind waiting for 30 minutes during the power outage on Wednesday. – Bernadette & Suama
* WINDHOEK Medi-Clinic. Thumbs up for the general assistant on night shift Ward D. The young one. Thanks staff for providing us with such wonderful people. – Happy patient
General
* PRESENTER Mwala Muchila sounded funny during his topic-turned programme on Thursday morning (April 2). He requested the potential callers not to refer to the programme as ‘Chat Show’. But what do you call a morning, phone-in talk show? It is a Chat Show, Sir! Or do you have a call-in programme without a name?
* TEARING down Park Foods and rebuilding wastes money and is environmentally unsustainable. Rather convert it. – Windhoek architect.
* THE physiology of menstruation is a default factor for women. Pads are extremely expensive. They should be tax exempted. Hon Saara (Kuugongelwa-Amadhila) and Marlene (Mungunda) look into it. Ae!
* THE Namibian, I am greatly disappointed. Why do hide or cover the faces of the civil servants stealing petrol from a Government bakkie? Do you suggest there is not enough evidence? A vehicle in the veld under a tree. Petrol cans etc. Shame on both of you! – The general rule is that we are not allowed by law to identify a suspect before they have appeared in court. – Newsdesk
* N$85 000 for an artificial leg! Even cars, consisting of hundreds of parts cost the same or even less. Such leg might give back one’s dignity and productivity, but can never alter the fact that you are handicapped. How do we come to such an outrageous amount? Government should subsidise the handicapped as they are paying tax with everything they purchase.
High Flyers
* AIR Namibia at this rate you will cost us ratepayers eventual bankruptcy. Fire the minister and all in top management and outsource to a country with a reputable airline. Never will I fly Air Namibia again.
In And From the Regions
* I WANT someone at NamWater to come to Otjiwarongo to examine the water situation we are facing because we the residents are suffering with this prepaid water. We don’t even know how we are being charged. You buy N$100 water and you just get N$10 water. What are you supposed to do with that. Please do something.
* MINISTRY of Gender please come and investigate how orphans are suffering while their pensions are misused by window committees in Caprivi.
* CLOSING the special school Herman Gmeiner over a water bill, irrespective of the amount involved goes to show how insensitive and inconsiderate our society has become about what matters. We are losing focus. – Tangeni
* THE Uis–Usakos road from Okombahe junction to Uis very bad.
* I HAVE been a resident of Gobabis for four years, but up to now Gobabis is always the same. It seems like there’s no town council here. We people in kambashus, we’re struggling with fuel and firewood. We collect firewood from the bush and it’s too dangerous. You could be bitten by the snake or you could be killed by the farm owner or by anyone. We need electricity and water in our shacks. It looks like Municipality is only considering the people in town and ignoring those in shacks. We also vote. Please GRN investigate the lifestyle of Gobabis if you really care for your nation and if you want a better life for all Namibians. – Anonymous
* PLEASE traffic officers in Kavango Region, why aren’t you also patrolling the gravel roads, especially this side in Ndiyona Constituency? There are a lot of people driving without licences and under the influence of alcohol, especially over weekends.
* CAN your newspaper please find out why some houses in Rundu Safari area were sold and others not. Since 1978 we have lived in that house. We ask the town council and they say we don’t qualify.
* MINISTRY of Works at Opuwo is doing nothing, just sitting with their blue uniforms. Can those who are responsible help us. Pipes around the town are old and leaking especially at the school hostel and government buildings. – Dide, Opuwo
* I’M black and proud of Ziegie from Witvlei. You are a son of the soil, entitled to freedom of expression, like everyone else, including Nunuhe. Keep the struggle on!
* GROOTFONTEIN Municipality can you please provide street lighting up to the army base. It’s too dark. Take an example from the Oshakati Town Council. – Alexco
ACC Alert
* WE (NIMT students) signed papers for Government study loans of N$16 000 and N$3 000 of that money should be given to students for transport at the beginning of the semester, but up to now we have not received that money. This is just a tip of the iceberg. Anti-Corruption Commission act now please!
Road Hogs
* THE driver of a white Toyota Corolla taxi N108022W belonging to E Tomas should value other road users’ lives if he does not value his own. Changing lanes, as he did in Hosea Kutako Drive, without undue consideration is dangerous, and our precious lives do not cost N$7.50. – Petrina
* TAXI trash. Will the authorities please do something about the taxi drivers who throw out their trash into the street as they are driving. I am referring to the taxi of Sechoge (N36410W) and the taxi of M Ndhidenwa (N116438W).
Labour Issues
* OLD Mutual, when are our pension, retrenchment cheques coming? We have been waiting for too long now. – LLD ex-employees