SMSes for Wednesday 18 August 2010
* I ATTENDED a consumer protection symposium last week and am impressed with the positive spirit and coordinated effort between the business and consumers to implement the Act in a more equitable fashion and to the benefit of all in RSA by October. Namibia should follow suit. – Mihe Gaomab II
Food for Thought
* IT’S so funny how silent NaTis is on the recently reported licence scam in Rundu! I can almost hear their silence.
– Lite Rite
* CAN someone do research and find a solution to the long hours in queues that we have to endure at every business and public entity?
Bouquets and Brickbats
* CONGRATULATIONS Comrade Hage Geingob for taking over the chairmanship with the vast experience and expertise you gained at the Global Coalition and world exposure. We are confident that you will make a major stride. We hope that your humble contribution will be noticed and appreciated by all member countries. Truly congrats. God bless you.
* I WANT to express my gratitude to the Ministry of Home Affairs for improved service delivery. I was able to get a passport within a day.
* THANK you Abraham Iyambo for embarrassing those Government officials coming to work late. What a disgrace; but I don’t think it will bother them! Other Ministers please follow suit! Charge the supervisors first!
* I WOULD like to thank my Minister Dr Abraham Iyambo for allowing the current BETD students to phase out. Thank you for securing my future. God bless you Dr Iyambo.
* NADIA Lawrence at Autohaus Windhoek you are one of few frontline staff that is well informed and friendly. Keep it up. Owner of N98622W.
* YOU have to be clever to understand a cartoon strip like ‘Ndeshi and Jakes’. Please don’t remove it. I love it!
* ‘NDESHI and Jakes’ is such poor humour that if my eyes fall on the strip I quickly move them away before I read one frame. It is not a funny cartoon at all and not worthy of The Namibian.
– Cartoon lover
* YOUR Thursday August 12 newspaper is full of typing errors. Someone needs to be held accountable for the unprofessionalism.
* WHAT’S happening? There’re just too many errors in some of your articles at times; which used not to be the case. Check this out; “...SIM did not have the gright to make investment decisions; h as that right war gfully with the client h”; p1 of 12 Aug copy. It’s irritating; if not adding to low language standards.
Note: They were actually not typing errors. It is a problem that we have been experiencing since moving over to a new version of the text programme we use. We have been trying to minimise the problem of quotation marks being thrown out as h’s and g’s. It is no excuse not to detect all these ‘typos’ so we will be more vigilant.
– News Desk
Many Happy Returns
* BIRTHDAY wishes to Comrade President Pohamba. Happy Birthday Comrade President! May the Almighty guide and give you more strength and wisdom to lead this nation. High mountains can be climbed, large oceans can be crossed, deep rivers can be swam through, thus continue leading the Land of the Brave for more other fruitful years to come. Your able, visionary leadership has stood the test of time from yesteryear of the struggle for Independence until today.
Aluta Continua! Happy Birthday Cde President!!
– Cde CJ Kaevarua, Otjiwarongo
* HAPPY Birthday President Hifikepunye Pohamba and Bishop Ndaxuma Nathaniel Nakwatumbah.
SADC
* THANKS to Dr Salomao’s contribution in his opening speech to the SADC Summit. It was good.
– Leni
* (ZIMBABWEAN President Robert) Mugabe refused to accept the SADC tribunal ruling, so why keep on inviting him to SADC summits? Does SADC work for the people or just eat and drink poor peoples taxes?
* EDITOR give feedback on this. Why is it that there is little or no coverage in the international media about the on-going SADC Summit in Windhoek?
* FELLOW Africans and the SADC citizens and leaders in particular; let us all get the copy of The Namibian newspaper (August 16, 2010; p 6) and ask Mr RG Mugabe to clarify this: Under whose name were the shamefully heinous acts that led to fellow Africans (the people of Zimbabwe) sustaining wounds like this, committed?
Business as Usual
* AS a Namibian I have nothing against the Chinese; the only problem is the Chinese don’t buy our goods but the Zimbabweans, Zambians, South Africans do. So why is the Government so hard on our fellow Africans but allows freedom of movement to the Chinese? Namibians we are being sold out. The struggle continues.
– PAA
* CHINA – Namibia trade up by 600%. Wow, what a statement! It sounds like Zimbabwe’s inflation rate.
* IT’S only those who most probably benefit from the Chinese, directly or indirectly, that praise them even at the expense of normal working Namibians. Wake up and smell the cheap plastic roses please.
Politics
* WHAT’S this thing about the President appointing governors? How about democracy where people choose their leaders? Stop appointing wrong people into wrong places.
* ALL Namibians, irrespective of political affiliation or religion need to mount a serious class action to challenge greed and poor leadership. The longer we prolong action, the greater the pain for current and future generations!
General
* PLEASE dedicate a page once a month reminding us of all corruption cases where millions got lost just to make the persons involved have nightmares every time.
* PLEASE Oshiwambo specialist put important information on Internet. It’s worth it for students and language lovers!
– Kandaha
* TO those harassed by supposed deaf mutes in car parking areas. They aren’t deaf or mute but Zimbabwean and Zambian beggars who daren’t open their mouths to speak for fear of exposure as illegals.
* IF you are complaining of a lack of sleep at night due to coughing rub your feet with Vicks. It really works.
GIPF Saga
* THE GIPF: Surely common sense dictates that investment of funds should be tasked to financial intellectuals and not a bunch of political incompetents who are presently just squandering the millions.
* PLEASE give us our pension money. We worked very hard for it and we deserve to either borrow from it or be given a portion of it. I work hard for it and my family will fight for my pension money after I die. Please let me also enjoy part of my money while I am still alive.
– MK, Mariental.
* NAM-MIC and Letshego should come clean on the GIPF hand-outs! We public servants are borrowing money from them. Are they perhaps not recipients of the GIPF hand-outs?
City Fathers Please
* APPEAL to the Namibian Police and the City Police: we in Dorado Valley, the area of Channel 7, are having sleepless nights. We have constant house break-ins even in the daytime when we are at work. Please patrol these areas at night and let us feel your presence in the area or do I need to buy a gun?
* TO the City of Windhoek when are we going to hear about auctioning the public erven? We can’t afford to compete with the rich. We want to buy direct from the Council as it was in the past. Let them answer please. Sick and tired of self-enrichment while the majority are suffering .
* CITY of Windhoek, it’s 17h00 on Monday afternoon in Klein Windhoek. My rubbish bin hasn’t been emptied. Why?
* I WANT to ask about the crazy fees set at the UN Plaza. How can they charge N$25 per hour on weekdays to play at the netball and basketball courts? Must the kids play in the streets?
* PLEASE City of Windhoek, it’s you who is sending the City Police to arrest vendors who are selling their products on the street. We survive through that money. We have to pay water and electricity to your Municipality but it’s you who chase us. The reason we do this is to feed our children. We don’t want to steal, that’s why we are trying to help ourselves. Please City of Windhoek together with the City Police leave us alone.
* WE would like to know from the Municipality why they are giving erven in Otjomuise Extensions 8 and 9? Municipal buses do not come to those areas and the taxis are very expensive.
Running the Show
* A MESSAGE to President Hifikepunye Pohamba: Democracy rests upon the principles of majority and indvidual rights. Democracies guard against all-powerful central governments and decentralise govermment to regional and local levels; understanding that all levels of government must be as accessible and responsive to the people as possible.
– The Eagle’s Eye
* QUESTION to the people representing the nation in the Government: are you aware of what is going on in the country you claim to and should rule? Joblessness; baby dumping; Grade 8 learners not able to read; fake material for cultural dresses; corruption everywhere; domestic violence; the friendly foreign powers (future colonialists); bankrupt municipalities; number of shebeens; the list can be continued! All after 20 years of Independence and getting worse!
Power to the People
* PRE-PAID electricity was introduced with good intentions. People can easily get power to overcome these fire outbreaks. But this is not the case. Private companies are using a method to decrease the units. For example if you buy N$100 prepaid electricity, you only get 67 units. We want to know why they can’t at least make the units between 80 and 90. Please President (HIfekepunye Pohamba) look into these matters. It looks as if we will have to go back to candles and lanterns, (oil) lamps again.
Health Matters
* WHAT is happening at Katutura State Hospital? When you enter the hospital you are greeted by a stench one cannot describe. The remaining lifts are not properly functional. The outside of the hospital reminds me of a dumping site because of the waste all over the place. What are those supervising doing?
* THE New Start Centres in Namibia are going to close at the end of September 2010. So unemployment will increase again!
ACC Alert
* CAN the ACC come to Omaruru to see how Government vehicles are being misused for personal use daily. Even on a Sunday. Enough is enough.
* MR (Paulus) Noa of ACC please we need your services at Windhoek Central Hospital.
Election Fever
* ELECTORAL Commission of Namibia I agree that hiring of private cars is too expensive as senior officials are cheating by claiming fake kms especially in two northern regions.
– Samwel
And Justice for All
* LAW/sentencing in Namibia is a joke. Referring to an article in The Namibian dated August 13 about the stock theft. How on earth do you sentence someone to 15 years in prison after he almost spent nearly five years in jail and ironically all the 11 stock was recovered seven days later? Does it even make sense?
– Concerned law abiding citizen
In and From the Regions
* THUMBS up for Roads Contractor Company in Rundu for putting speed humps on the Trans-Caprivi Highway in the Ndama area. We the Ndama community are happy now. Thank you RCC.
– Kahare Petrus Sikongo
* MY request is to traffic officials in Rundu. I think they need to investgate more and get those fake licences and not to forget that not only Rundu did this.
* IS the charcoal industry in this country regulated? I know of a place that has been cut clear of all trees. Someone should look into this deforestation on an industrial scale.
* IN 20 years our people in Grunau settlement have never tasted the freedom of our beloved Namibia. We are facing health problems with the ‘gat’ toilets and the development of our humble village. Karas Regional Councillors are just there for their salaries and not development. Wake up.
* PLEASE Roads Authority what happened to the green buses that used to transport people from Windhoek to Katima? We are afraid of travelling with the minibuses because they are not safe on the road and since the minibuses from Katima town are bewitched by their owners!
– Concerned Katima resident.
* HELLO Okahandja Police! There is a person or a place or a shebeen that operates throughout the week until late hours. Does this outlet have a very special permit to make such unbearable noise? Or should we report the matter to the Windhoek City Police? I am deprived of peaceful sleeping hours on a daily basis.
Labour Issues
* I WOULD like to know how the close-transfer in the teaching profession is done. I have a husband who is an HOD in the North and wants a transfer to Windhoek to stay with me. I can’t move there myself because of my studies.
* LAST time we heard fishermen’s qualifications are now recognised internationally – what about merchant seamen who aren’t fishermen or don’t you know the difference?
* THE Ministry of Education owes staff members thousands in unpaid transfer allowances, some back-dated to years ago. HR personnel are responsible for this ineffectiveness as the advising office to the Permanent Secretary. This is just in addition to many pending misconduct cases, some in courts, that have cost the ministry thousands in legal costs or compensation due to re-instatement of staff members. Advice to the Minister and the new Permanent Secretary: be pro-active in your own right. Send them to school to obtain qualifications as the Ministry funds education. You can be a good administrator but you will be limited to your level of qualification.
– Tololi village
Education
* PLEASE principal at Omukwiyu Gwemanya wake up! Learners are dating teachers!
Sporting
* NFA Brass Band. We are very happy to see Harry Jahs on the executive nomination list. Currently soccer is heading one way in Karas. Let’s be fair and give each other a decent chance.We need young and visionary but flexible leaders in football. Football is a not just the ball. The admin and the technology on how to update and stay on course with the global world becomes a fact now. All we ask the Namibia Football Association is to please to speed up with their programmes and courses.
Lost and Found
* I ANANIAS Nangolo lost my identity card in Windhoek. If found please contact me at 081-309-5763 or at 081-217-5499.
* I EFAISHE Maano Erickson lost my important documents in Oshakati. If found please call 081-395-2748 or 081-485-7678.
Service Please
* WHEN Standard Bank Auto Tellers are out of order, why are the clients charged with normal bank costs when withdrawing money through other means?
Responses to recent SMSes
* TO the one complaining about being woken up at 05h00 by the preacher in Okakarara. Get some pliers and cut off his electrical cables! If Jesus could get the message out without any PA system then so can that preacher!
* DEAR Magano, B Stancy and others, please leave (Paulus) Kapia alone and concentrate on your lives. We know that this is not about money but purely personal reasons because you want to tarnish his political career. The court will pronounce itself soon. Go Comrade Kapia go!
– Peter, Otjiwarongo