SMS For Monday 15 June 2009
* LET’S appreciate service offered. I’m not a cleaner or a security officer but I am calling on all individuals to please value the service offered by the aforementioned. It pains me when you don’t even know the name of the security officer at your door or the cleaner/tea lady (as some call them). Just imagine how proud and appreciated these people feel when we call them by their names and not by their job cards. – Tate waMonica – I fully support you on this. Well articulated. – News Editor
Food For Thought
* PERSONALLY I believe the national employment rate is key to any country’s stability. The high crime rate is the result of mass unemployment. However it’s the Government that must also sacrifice some tax revenue and devise a law that gives the private sector a justifiable corporate tax discount in exchange for employment creation. I think the private sector will react positively.
Crime Spree
* BRING back the execution law on criminals. The lawmakers of this country are concentrating on spying on people, while important issues are ignored. Namibians, let’s stand up as one and tell the leaders to stop their silly ideas and start building this nation.
Jobs For All
* WE agree with the Deputy Minister of Finance, Cde Tjekero Tweya, that Government posts that are budgeted for should be filled urgently. It is senseless that it takes nine months or a year without these posts being filled while there are thousands qualified youth languishing in the camp of the unemployed. This why the Central Committee of SPYL meeting at Swakopmund recently called for immediate filling of these positions without fail.
– Elijah Ngurare, Secretary of SPYL
* HON Tjekero Tweja, there is no way you can force the private sector to provide jobs because they don’t promise jobs as your own comrades do when they want to be elected just to sit in our Parliament, sleep, jump up and make statements that have nothing to do with nation building. Next time consult your comrades at the Labour Ministry on how you want this to be approached. Besides, people running the private sector are professionals and you better approach them as such. Or spend the billions you spend on non-productive permanent secretaries hosting a conference on equal distribution of our wealth and don’t forget to invite the private sector and civil society.
* DEPUTY Minister Tweya don’t forget to tell your colleagues their people are to be blamed. Don’t blame the private sector. Please instruct your colleague ministers to employ people in their ministries or agencies.
– Concerned Namibian
Spy Bill
* THERE is a lot of unemployment in the country, yet the Government goes ahead and proposes a spy bill. They will spend millions on buying software and equipment needed for the spying. Instead of wasting money on the spy bill, create employment with the money intended for the spy bill.
* WHO’s fooling who? Most callers on last Monday’s ‘Talk of the Nation’ were in favour of the so-called Spy Bill, whilst most SMSes in The Namibian are against it. Were the callers organised or is our newspaper hiding the SMSes that are in favour of the Spy Bill?
– Patriot P
– We are not hiding anything and have published the messages supporting the Bill as well, including a letter in Friday’s newspaper. – Newsdesk
* WE are going the Zim way. No wonder the Zim Information Minister was visiting when the communistic draconian Spy Bill is being forced on us.
* WE are going back to the colonial times. Interception of other people’s phone calls is robbing the Namibian nation of their freedom of speech. So you are repeating the past. How different are you?
* SHAME on the Swapo government for even considering the Spy Bill. Have you run out of ideas?
* WILL there be exemptions to the Spy Bill?
– Could you clarify what you mean by exemptions? Otherwise, for its part, Government is adamant that they will only “monitor” suspects. – News Editor
Politics
* I’M now convinced that The Namibian newspaper crew, and specifically the editor, is certainly “against” the mighty Swapo Party, if not, the Father of the Nation, if not, the Namibian President, if not, the Secretary General of mighty Swapo Party, if not, secretary of SPYL. The evidence through biased reports and Political Perspective (since 2004). You don’t need to give feedback, it’s a fact by statistics.
– You are fully entitled to your view, but we would contend that if you are a regular reader of The Namibian you would have noticed that praise has been given where praise is due, criticism has been levelled where it is due, that alternate views have been published, etc, etc! – News Editor
* TRADITIONAL leaders please stay away from politics, remember what happened in the past or is history repeating itself?
* NAMIBIA’S history needs to be told as it is. I was very happy to learn from HE Cde Sam Shafiishuna Nujoma, when he was addressing mourners at Ongwediva over the weekend, that His Grace Retired Bishop Cde Kleopas Dumeni was a Swapo Party Central Committee member during the liberation struggle. Those who don’t want Cde Nujoma to talk about history are denying us our right to know what happened during those years. Thank you Cde Nuyoma, keep up the good work.
– U2, Ongwediva.
* PLEASE stop criticising churches. I don’t believe that in Heaven they ask to which church did you belong. It’s sad that the Founding Father is bothered by new churches but not by mushrooming shebeens in our communities. Go and rest Tatekulu and enjoy what some of us don’t have.
Bouquets
And Brickbats
* HELLO Ms Aune of Home Affairs, I want to say thank you for the way for the way you answered people who come to you there for citizenship. Please keep it up. May God bless you.
– Pastor Onwuemene
* IN response to your Top Ten on page 3 on Thursday Jesus is alive! He rose from the dead and can’t be counted with the dead.
* I WANT to congratulate the former Brave Warrior’s legend ‘Lolo’ for retiring from soccer. Bro you are my hero. I wish to see you coaching ‘BA’ . Well done!
– Mr Bean
* LOLO, you are a true gentleman on the field! Soccer lovers will miss your skilful ball handling, good luck!
* I REALLY felt bad after reading ‘Critics blast Spanish reality show for stereotyping San’ in The Namibian, June 12. That is totally immoral and sinful!
– Embodi
* I’D like to respond to an SMS by Gil that was published in The Namibian on Thursday, June 11. The news headlines on NBC are absolutely fine with most of us. Don’t concern yourself with the background on the news. Just focus on the news. Thanks.
* THANKS to the ACC for coming to Lüderitz. Leave no stone unturned. Owakalako.
General
* IS our hospitality industry doing something to tap into the huge influx of people expected for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa?
* CAN I suggest to the Miss Namibia finalist to read something like the ‘Rise and Fall of the Third Reich’ to suitably and fully answer questions on why and how those abominable Nazis did what they did. No need to bring monsters back to validate their crimes and give them a sense that they are needed by the living.
– An anti-Nazi
Running The Show
Should it take so long?
* THIS month, 11 years ago, I appeared in front of a tribunal who ordered Home Affairs to issue me with Namibian documents. I still have nothing. How much longer?
* PEOPLE must learn to take care of their national documents e.g. birth certificates and IDs. To my surprise a lot of duplicate birth certificates, exceeding the population of the Kavango Region, have been issued to those who apply and it has been proven statistically. GRN must please educate our nation on the subject matter.
City Fathers ...
* CITY of Windhoek. Please I have been waiting for a good six years for you to rectify my house’s overlapping boundary. A house which you approved when it was newly built and surprisingly disapproved its extension because of your own mistake and now I have to pay dearly for your wrongdoing. It has been six years since my plan went into your office and after all trips and phone calls to your office for enquiries my case is still with your lawyers. Please rectify your fault or refund me my money to look for another place to stay.
– Ndaloloka
* CITY Police, wake up! Every morning at the corner of Bach and Sam Nujoma, cars cut in at the intersection with no concern or care for fellow drivers! What about safety? Law enforcement? Municipality widen the roads – don’t just do it for privileged in rich suburbs!
* DOES the public have a say in the renaming of roads and streets? Hochland Road is being renamed to David Hosea Meroro Road? Do we have a say in it?
* CITY of Windhoek, please put up speed bumps in Heliodoor Street. It turns into a racetrack at night, especially on weekends.
Health Matters
* TO my dear sister on the SMS Please Help on Friday. You and your husband need professional counselling. What has happened cannot be revised and the earlier you accept the truth that the HIV virus has come to stay till death do us part the better. Forget even who brought it into the marriage because it will just make matters worse. By the time that the professional counselling is done with you and your husband you may consider a second honeymoon. Your husband is going through a denial stage right now but with help he will change to be a loving husband. Don’t give up on him. Going to the City Police will not help to save your matrimonial problems. I’m sure that you are not the only one. Unfortunately there is no law to prosecute whoever brings HIV infection into marriage. Keep all your hopes alive and make peace with the virus. Time is the greatest healer of all wounds and pains.
– Mee Ndaa
* WHY do the staff at the Robert Mugabe Clinic take lunch, while the ones in Katutura don’t? Aren’t they all State clinics?
– Petrus
* POLIO drops: the advert on NBC TV on the next round of immunisation I think was not edited. A child should get three drops but in the advert that poor child got a whole lot of drops.
– Taina, Windhoek
* SWINE flu deaths are only 1% of infections and they had mostly other health problems. Why are we importing 20 000 doses of Tamiflu?