SMSes for Friday 30 July 2010
* PEOPLE complain so much about so many different things but do nothing to change them. Come on Namibians!
Food for Thought
* THROUGHOUT the world Africans are known for their high morals. We’re known as kind, caring, and thinking of others before ourselves etc. Very few Africans can claim they lack proper upbringing whether they grew up poor or not. We are being westernised and losing the principles and values our forefathers have ingrained in us leading to such acts as the senseless killing of the young girl. Our leaders please take note.
The Attack
* MY deepest condolences to the family of the young life that was lost so brutally. People like him should get the maximum punishment. So sad that her life had to end like this...
* THE violent rapists and murderers are testing the patience of the youth. There is a need for equally harsher sentences to respond to these heinous crimes.
* AN innocent schoolgirl is brutally raped and killed. This latest rape and murder is one too much. It’s time we take our streets and residences back from the criminals.
– JTJ
* A YOUNG lady lost her life in the Khomasdal riverbed and the residents of that area are in danger especially from burglars and thieves. The City Police must patrol that riverbed 24 hours a day.
* MY heart is bleeding for the mother who lost her child in such a brutal way. When will the leaders realise that they are letting us down. Why is a cow’s life more valuable than a human life? Wake up leaders and start doing what you get paid for.
* SOMETIMES I look at the kids with tears in my eyes and I wonder what kind of Namibia we are building for them. Bring back the death penalty.
* DEAR Namibian nation, I was very shocked and angry over this incident that appeared on the front page of The Namibian on Wednesday. What is our Government going to do about such murderers? We have lost a daughter and she’s not the first. We are tired of such crimes. If you the Government does nothing, then the nation might take the law into their own hands. Reintroduce the death sentence or just do something. Our women and children are no longer safe. Those who kill must also be killed.
* WITH reference to the murder of the girl in Khomasdal, I want to know why there are no structured and proper police patrols in the streets of the suburbs of Windhoek. Criminals are taking advantage of the absence of the police patrols which could be a strong weapon against the criminals.
* BEING a mother myself I can ‘t stop crying when I read about the murder of the young girl. We want to see his face! Why protect such an evil, barbaric killer. Expose him! -
* I’M a police officer from Otjiwarongo. My tears are running as I text this. If I was the arresting officer of that suspect I would have done something to him on the spot. Till when must these things go on? Give the police powers back please. To the family of the young girl. I pray for you. My God console you during this time of sorrow. If I was at Katutura Hospital I would have handed him over to the crowd.
Note: However angry people might be, mob justice is not the answer. Police have their procedures and should not be encouraged to take the law into their own hands. Remember he remains a ‘suspect’ for now. – News Desk
* MEN stop killing! It’s unfair that we have to live our lives in fear. What goes on in a man’s mind to do cruel things to women, to your own kids and to your sisters. We are tired. Please give him the death penalty.
– Omusati.
* WHY can the Namibian Defence Force not patrol the riverbeds in order to curb crime? They are paid taxpayers’ money just to go and parade in the morning and sleep in the barracks.They can help us.
– Plato
* A PLEA to all Namibian women. Let us take a stand and have the Namibian Constitution changed. A murder for murder.
* I CONDEMN the gruesome murder of Magdalena. I urge all Namibians to make themselves available when there are organised protests taking place. We always have big mouths but never attend.
– Ingrid
* “MURDER is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on her behalf demand atonement or forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest” - W H Auden. Minister of Security, deploy police on foot and on bicycles.
– Elia
* ONE who steals livestock gets a tougher sentence than one who rapes and murders. We the youth are tired of the savage killing of our peers. One who murders should automatically lose his/her right to life. The death penalty is the only effective deterrent to murder!
– Mekondjo Vatileni
* NEWS desk, thanks for printing act 6 on human rights, but didn’t Magdalena Stoffels have a right as a human not to be raped and killed? Rapists and murderers are not humans but monsters! Therefore they have no human rights! This is why so many Namibians feel that the death penalty needs to be re-implemented.
Note: Rapists and murderers are not ‘animals’ or ‘monsters’ but people from our own communities who commit terrible deeds. – News Desk
* WELL said News Desk re death penalty, but also the sooner the better. Maybe we also need a Devil’s Island.
Bouquets and Brickbats
* THANKS NWR Hardap Resort waiters/waitresses for being so cheerful. The place is relatively clean but needs renovation urgently.
* AGRIBANK we as parents are very disappointed with your bursary scheme. You claim that N$2 milion is to be spent on these 11 students for the next four years. Yet for this entire year they only received N$8 000 each on July 23 after they failed the first semester due to lack of materials. This N$8 000 at university is a drop in ocean of the costs. It seems education is not a priority at Agribank!
* MINISTRY of Education Division NSFAF: Please pick up your phones during office hours. I did not get an answer when I called on the July 28 between 10h00 and 11h30. Hire an unemployed Namibian to act as a switchboard operator.
* RE: July 26 Page 5. A N$1.5 billion solar plant? In Rehoboth? When there are many more days of sunshine in the Namib? 1 000 Jobs at Swartmodder? A mine waterlogged for decades with no infrastructure at all, and at a time when all our copper mines are barely surviving? And since when do municipalities give out mining licences? I have had enough of these cloud-cuckooland stories. Has investigative reporting died with Smithie? Re 27 July: Corporal punishment. Where did all those randomly appearing letters C G or H come from? Any spell checker would have found them!
Note: The randomly appearing letters are a production not a spell checker issue but we agree it shouldn’t happen.
– News Desk
In and From the Regions
* HOW many druglords were caught in Walvis Bay in the last few years but are free and still selling their drugs. Law enforcement agencies do your jobs properly.
* WHILE we are approaching the council elections we need to give all the power to the public to choose who is to rule their constituency. Because people are crying, for instance, a person from Kwambi is ruling Otamanzi which is in Ongandjera? Please we want development. There is no electricity at Kanana Combined School. How long must people wait for that electricity?
* WHAT is wrong with the councillor for Mpungu constituency in Kavango Region? The last time he was seen in my village was when he was campaigning for the position. Now he is in the promised position nothing has been done in my village. Leaders please don’t use tricks for people to vote for you but please fulfill your duties even after the elections. We need electricity in Katope village.
– Concerned resident
Education
* DR Abraham Iyambo why don’t Namibia Institute of Mining and Technology students get refunds from their loans like other institutes? We want to buy our toolboxes.
– Worried student.
* MINISTRY of Eduction please provide school buses for the students as you have seen what happened to the school child of a certain school in Windhoek on July 27.
City Fathers Please...
* I AM a resident of Dawid Bezuidenhoudt Street and my house borders the Gammams River. My heart bleeds for Magdalena Stoffels. Criminals nest in that river. My house has been broken into four times. What is the City doing in terms of grass clearing in Gammams River. City Police have quad bikes that can patrol the river. Must we as residents burn down the grass and take law into our own hands? Let’s unite against crime and stop it! City Police help us to set up neighbourhood crime busters. I am tired of crime.
– Anti-crime
* CITY Police, Windhoek. I really don’t understand the work of the City Police in the capital city. People are being brutally killed and their belongings taken by the criminals. This is now more regular in the city than in any other towns, like the brutal death of the young schoolgirl. We are losing our leaders of tomorrow. So Windhoek’s City Police must do their work not just threaten taxi drivers. We need peace in our capital.
– Shanika David, Oshakati
* WE citizens of Acacia are fed up with being robbed and burgled through open fences facing the Western Bypass. After several complaints the Municipality failed to clear bushes or provide security! Maybe they should use some army recruits for proper tasks?
Lost and Found
* PLEASE help find my medical books stolen with my bag from my car. They all have my name on: W.L. Benjamin. If found please phone or SMS 081-330-8113.
* I MARIA Tsei-Tseis lost my black wallet with documents. If found please SMS or call me on 081-436-2315.
* I LYAKONGA Emilie Simuma lost my ID in Windhoek. If found please call or sms to this number. 0814542682.
* I FOUND personal documents for the following people: Haimbodi Natanael ID, Haitembu Julia, Thomas Elias, Haimbodi Lakkela. They must call 081-382-5893.
Responses to recent SMSes
* IF late-coming is the responsibility of the principal and the school has tried everything – from detention to cleaning toilets, classes and the yard, even calling the parents and suspending learners – what more can be done? Now they are locked out and the Minister and the Director are not happy. This is not the schools’ responsibility but the parents.
* SAYING beer without alcohol is useless is like saying I am an alcoholic! Beers are meant to refresh not an excuse to get drunk and act like wild animals! If you need alcohol to socialise then you need to attend AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) meetings! Get help or rather keep your alcohol dependent comments to yourself!
* A ‘DOMESTIC’ is not a person! The person is a ‘domestic worker’! Don’t reduce them to a ‘thing’!
* DIRTY streets, areas etc must be cleaned by the people living there. Let each house/business owner clean in front of their own houses/shops. Then the whole street and area will be cleaned!
* THE municipalities want to make money for their huge salaries. That’s why they auction land instead of just selling it to people in need as per its ground value.
* JULIA Nanghanda is right. Pregnant schoolgirls should still get a chance to finish school.
Responses from the Namibian Broadcasting Corporation
* NBC now that you have a new DG please do something. We in Walvis Bay are really tired of your poor sound and pictures and the old fashioned movies. And you expect us to pay TV licenses?
Thank you for your enquiry, NBC has introduced new movies such as The Cradle, Crusoe, Second Chance, Rain and new series such as Tinsel and Critical Moments. Please feel free to log onto our website at www.nbc.com.na to download our TV schedule. You can also see the synopsis of the films and series to entice you a bit more.
* NBC please show us the upcoming game between Eleven Arrows and the Amakosie live please.
Thank you for your enquiry, NBC has aired the promo of the screening of this match. Please enjoy the match live on NBC TV between Eleven Arrows vs Kaizer Chiefs this coming Saturday July 31st at 15h00.
* NBC can you please try returning ‘The Apprentice’ by Donald Trump and start responding to our SMSes please? We want answers and explanations.
– Michael JC.
Currently, NBC does not have the rights to broadcast the reality series ‘The Apprentice’ due to financial constraints. In addition, NBC TV has only limited broadcast slots to its disposal, due to having one channel and prefer instead to dedicate them to local content.
Ilke Platt
Corporate Communications Officer
NBC
Response from NampostAS part of our values, service delivery is of key importance to our customers at Nampost. So I would like to ask the general public in the northern region to contact me with regard to suggestions, queries and comments that you may have encountered.
– W Kandjii, 081-127-5707
Response from the Ministry of Education
* Minister (Abraham) Iyambo can you please investigate all the schools in Windhoek which are charging learners per month for afternoon classes to assist them with learner problems. Some parents cannot even afford the school development fund.
Schools are not allowed to charge parents for remedial teaching of learners. It is the responsibility of any teacher to provide extra classes for learners where there is such a need. Schools continuing with this practice should be reported to Inspectors of Education and Directors of Education at the respective regions.
Esther Paulus
PR