SMSes for Thu 12 Feb 09
* OKAY … now we are supposed to be recycling, where are all these collection points?
Food For Thought
* OPEN the newspapers and read about corruption, murder and crime. Drive the streets and observe ignorance and rude driver behaviour. Talk to people and listen how it is expected that Government must assist and detect an absence of pride and initiative in the workplace. What a self-pitying and lawless nation we are becoming.
* CAN Air Namibia please think of offering bursaries to some of us who want to fly their planes instead of just employing foreigners.– Ayedn
Politics
* CAN someone please warn democracy that she is under threat in Namibia from unruly selfish uninformed elements. Namibians let’s all come to her rescue before it’s too late.
Bouquets And Brickbats
* A VERY big thank you to the Henties Bay Clinic nurses, especially your swift response and prayers. You saved my wife’s life! And thank you to the Tom Cat Security for your emergency responses! God bless you! – HH /Honeb
* LEGAL Assistance Centre – your document regarding reform of school pregnancy policy is very constructive and must be taken as a guideline for a new policy. – Waltraut
* NAMIBIA open for business! It was really good to see an advert on Namibia on CNN. Congratulations to your guys at the Ministry of Trade! We should vigorously market this country. NTB and Ministry of Environment & Tourism, do something please!
* RAMBLER, your ability to write the queen’s own language transports me back to my time when it was taught properly in school. Keep it up. – Toage Gonob, Khorixas
* HANDS up for the pharmacist at Pharmacy 2000, Ondangwa. Its a pleasure being served by you as you are customer friendly. Keep it up!
* I’M very happy about the positive encouragement of the person who thanked the casualty staff of the Keetmanshoop State Hospital in The Namibian of February 9 on the SMS page. I think he should specify the names of the nurses who did the great job. The nurses always get negative publicity. It would also be a challenge to the other nurses to keep up the good work. Don’t forget the doctor who was also involved. – Proud resident of Keetmanshoop.
* WE would like to thank meme Kaunapawa for breaking the circle of poverty and giving us a better life. May God bless her and the donors behind her as well.
* HON (Ngarikutuke) Tjiriange has very little to cover up for the inefficiency and lack of foresight of his Ministry to deal with the issue of the veterans. No true leader of the Namibian struggle will ever underestimate the number of the veterans that are there. He has been putting up the ministerial structure for three solid years. Boring enough! How long did it take him to put up the structure for the Ministry of Justice! Will he ever deliver?
Health Matters
* I WOULD like to comment on the DPT vaccine blamed for the death of a six-week-old baby. I would like to appeal to the MoHSS to please do a post-mortem so that we as parents know if indeed the vaccine is to blame.
* I AM alarmed by the medicine being advertised daily in print and electronic media! Do they have they have the blessing of our (Health) Minister Dr Kamwi? Is it proven that they can do as they claim? I call on Dr Kamwi to look into this matter. He must not tell us that it is an open market! He must protect us! – Eliakim
* ARE we old citizens not given preference to services at eye clinics and other places? Please help we are dying from sitting and waiting especially at the Windhoek Central Eye Clinic.
In And From the Regions
* GROOTFONTEIN Municipality what shall we do about non- development, dirty streets and many more things. Please Open File team come to our town and cover it please.
* WHY doesn’t the Grootfontein Town Council ask Tsumeb’s mayor to help them out or take over just for this year to help them bring development. We youth are very unhappy with the way our town is rundown. Please. – Ome Aurie
* CAN (Health Minister) Hon Dr (Richard) Kamwi please consider at least providing Otjimbingwe village with an ambulance to be based there. When an ambulance is called in for emergencies and it has to come from Usakos, which is 100 km away and some patients are dying on their way, as the only nearby hospital is in Usakos. Let the councillor Mr Xoagub and headman, Mr Kahikopo help to solve this problem.
* ATTENTION: Roads Authority – the residents of Groot Aub: 10 per cent – jobless, 20 per cent – aged, 20 per cent under age, 50 per cent - commuters between Groot Aub and Windhoek daily and need a tarred road .
* TSANDI Constituency is so big for one person only. Please GRN we want Ongulumbashe to be a constituency.
* FOR how long will Five Rand Primary School be under-staffed? Classes are overcrowded. There has been no cleaner or secretary since 2005. And we are the most disadvantaged community.
* WHEN will Keetmanshoop Municipality get at least a senior technician to run its IT division. The CEO must know that Keetmans is not a village council. The admin officer is doing a good job but, he’s all alone in this big department. The building plans just take too long before being approved.
* I WOULD like you to make an investigation into why the Omusati Regional Office has not yet delivered stationary to the schools.
Education
* I’M very disappointed by the principal of Omuve Senior Secondary School in the Ohangwena Region. How on earth are you sending pupils back home just because they are late by only two minutes? If rain is falling heavily there is a possibility of many obstacles even to the teachers or youself. Lock your gate at least when it’s 08h10 but only if it’s raining sir. Just an idea. – Haule Woketanangela
* THE Ministry of Education should look up other measures of punishing children. I found learners locked outside the school at Hashiyana Primary School on February 10, meaning that they would be marked absent and miss classes. With the high rate of failures in the North, you are still locking learners outside in the rain. That’s not fair.
* CAN Unam please speed up their late registration because 23 to 25 is late and class starts on the 23rd. If the Polytech can manage so can Unam.
* UNAM should really do something about its admin system. How can one wait five weeks to get the appeal results after the lecturers messed up with our results! Thanks to the sick admin system we missed the opportunity to get GRN financial assistance.
Labour Issues
* MORE than 1 400 health workers will lose their jobs because of Section 128 in the Labour Act, which prohibits labour-hire services. But still Air Namibia has approached an international labour-hire company to help them recruit pilots and captains for their European routes. I am confused, please, Mr Labour Minister, clarify my confusion. Is there a difference in the Labour Act on local and international labour-hire companies? Are you not bringing back the slave system by bringing in the foreign pilots and captains? It is better for you to reverse and scrap Section 128?
* I STRONGLY feel the education sector is milking teachers. One has to travel to a workshop at one’s own cost. Teachers could not even define what S & T stands for.
* PLEASE can anyone imagine a nurse working alone for 24 hours in a clinic which caters for a big population? This has been the case with Tsumkwe clinic for over one year. Help! – Concerned
* WE have been waiting for our overtime since December at Mariental Hospital and are very concerned about the left over food which is given to the night staff. Management please do something.
ACC Alert
* MINISTRY of Health through the ACC, there is terrible abuse of telephones for unnecessary reasons at the Walvis Bay State Hospital.
General
* THE Inspector General (of Police) and the Ministry of Social Welfare have to look into this matter. Why does the Woman and Child Protection Unit have only one car to cater for the whole Khomas region? The unit is dead and all rape cases reported end up halfway investigated due to lack of transport. Don’t even talk of protection orders piling up and not being served at all. Please do something to help this unit to achieve its goal. – Concerned citizen
* WHY is the SPCA asking people to adopt dogs and cats yet they ask very high prices once we want to buy?
* WHAT does the GIPF mean by saying they are joining hands with NamPost? Some of us prefer receiving our pension via our current banks, eg FNB. Does it mean we have to open smartcards or what? Mr Primus please provide details with this.
* IS there a platform to address the needs of the Kamholo family? If one wants to help, where does one go? I thought community and political leaders would take the lead! Someone, please give direction! – Windhoek Samaritan
* JUST some advice: the Top Revs section of your paper should entitle the ‘Me and my car’ segment ‘My car and I’, don’t you think? Grammatically speaking.
* WILL the reader who sent an SMS on green economic technology please get in touch with me urgently? 085-561-9701. Thanks.
* MINISTRY of Works and Transport please do something. The road into Katutura State Hospital as well as to Windhoek Central Hospital on the way from Katutura Hospital is full of potholes and unsightly.
* PLEASE this time publish this SMS. I need some advice on the issue of transporting, accommodating and feeding the witnesses of disciplinary hearings/ misconduct charges who are not working in the Government, since no provision is made in the Public Service Act of 1995.
* WE criticise so much when the Police beat up suspects. But I went to see Black Africa play Orlando and a security guard repeatedly whipped a guy even when he was running away until Orlando’s official violently pulled him away. The guy just tried to get in and denying him dignity like that can even prompt law-abiding people to intervene. That would be mob justice and we don’t want that, so stop it.
Service Please
* CUSTOMER care at the Ministry of Finance numbers; 29062644/45 never answer calls not even if one dials through the switchboard. Minister/Permanent Secretary please I am still waiting for my tax form to be finalised. Last week I was told it is not yet done!
* CAN the Swakopmund Police charge office help the public in languages they are comfortable with please.
* PLEASE One Africa Television improve your reception in Oshakati Town.
* ALEXANDER Forbes takes very long to pay out pension claims to the beneficiaries of the deceased which makes it hard for the orphans to go to school. Please improve your services, you are making our lives miserable. – Dissatisfied
* WHEN is Standard Bank getting cellphone banking? If I may ask as a customer, I recently was robbed off thousands from an ATM with my stolen card. Only realised after I got a statement