SMS Of Tuesday 9 March 2010
WE the taxpayers have already wasted loads of money bailing out Air Namibia and other parastatals over the years. I say get competent managers to run these companies and put the taxpayers’ money to better use. – JDZ
Food for Thought
IT is a big shame for a single person to say that the nation has lost. We never lost but we are stepping forward to developing our country as a one nation, one Namibia. The story of the November election 2009 is over. Let’s focus on things that can build us as a small nation with enough space and many resources. We need to go into the fields of education and agriculture to get us out of poverty.
Bouquets and Brickbats
THE new Director at the Heritage Council has brought visible changes. Look at the Heroes Acre, it’s spotlessly clean. Thank you sir, keep it up. The same goes to the rest of the staff.
– SG
THE Ndilimani music group and Swapo supporters did not consider patients at Katutura Hospital and residents in the area of Swapo Party Headquarters during their recent celebration.
ON the bailing out of State-Owned Enterprises, Elijah Ngurare should rest assured that most people are not against state intervention provided it does not continue perpetually, as is the case with Air Namibia and others. And if other companies make profits and pay tax to government, what is the matter with the likes of money gobblers like Air Namibia, Dr Ngurare? It is not enough to say bailing out happens elsewhere because we should not be aiming at failure as an example to succeed.
– Naumbabale
PLEASE Dr Elijah Ngurare do your homework properly and find out the amount of taxpayers’ money that has bailed Air Namibia and other parastatals every year.
Man of the Cloth
WITH due respect I want to comment on the issue raised by Dr Shejavali. If civil conflict ever enters Namibia then people like him will be blamed. Respected as he is, he cannot just write letters to newspapers mentioning tribes by name. Is he maybe not trying to plant seeds of tribalism here? I wonder somewhere, somehow, the vision is about to get lost here.
DR Abisai Shejavali, thank you.You are a true son of the soil. Namibia needs bold, brave and selfless leaders like you.
Election Challenge
THE Opposition Coalition has just got themselves to blame. A cut off hour is a cut off hour. Imagine if a Swapo businessman gave in a tender one hour late but the tender is awarded to him. Then the opposition will say it is corruption because the tender was late. Have your cake and eat it.
THE nine opposition parties should fire their lawyers! They, the lawyers, cannot even make sure that they get the documents in on time!
I AM very proud to be a born Namibian but sad to say that since the High Court decision on the election, I am not a democrat anymore. I refuse to accept that my vote must possibly compete with the deceased, under-aged and double registered voters all appearing on the voters roll. I refuse to accept that my vote must compete with the ghost vote. And as a democrat I expect our High Court to defend my vote. They conveniently choose the easy way out and and ignored what is the heartbeat of democracy, free and fair elections, and not applications which are one hour late.
JUST before the elections, Swapo filed a lawsuit of a N$100 million against RDP’s (Hidipo) Hamutenya. One got the impression Swapo felt very strongly about the alleged accusations of of rigging elections, if not insulted. You would think then when the opposition parties took the ECN to court, Swapo would welcome this opportunity to ‘prove’ their innocence to the nation and the world, especially in an event of a re-election. Yet Swapo, let alone the senior ECN officials, could not hide their joy when the court ruled that the opposition parties were late by 90 minutes. Ha! I don’t care if the opposition parties were late with a hundred years, I will still want to hear their evidence. What did they uncover? Period!
THE High Court ruling didn’t do justice to the election court challenge by not addressing the legal core issues on which the case was based at all.
– BAB, Karas!
HOW about getting an independent electoral commission in Namibia?
CAN the nine opposition parties now actually institute legal action against the Registrar of the Court for having acted against the regulation of accepting urgent applications. Or was all done to discredit the opposition. Justice must prevail. Shocked!
“THE change is now”. The will of the Namibian people can’t be held at ransom. The wheel of democracy in this country is rotating. Viva victorious party!
– Kelvin
PLAYING the political game of technicalities sacrificed my trust and confidence in our democracy and judiciary.
In and From the Regions
IN another newspaper on Friday the Sesfontein conservancy was described as a great success. Why not interview the beneficiaries.
– Migu
2009 Cup winners, Omaheke
PLEASE bring The Namibian newspaper Cup to Tsumeb in Oshikoto Region. I will will help you with the organisation. I thank you in advance.
Note: You are most welcome to put in a bid for 2011. Contact the Namibia Football Association – Newsdesk.
NO mortuary at Rosh Pinah, or Aus 20 years after Independence. Who is responsible for the dead as there is only the Ministry of Health and Social Services?
Education
TO the respected Minister of Education please do something about the Grade 11s’ accommodation and that of their teachers here at Pendukeni Iivula Ithana Combined School in Etayi Constituency. Save them please!
– Comrade Erastus Shuundeni
MR Nangolo Mbumba, teachers usually take learners for sport activities and other educational excursions during weekends. Will they also claim overtime and Rate 1 just like any other civil servant?
THE teaching profession is undoubtedly the most difficult of all because of the tremendous social responsibility imposed to train and shape the developing minds of the younger generation. Compelling teachers to do practical lecturing till 16h00 will leave them to do homework marking and preparation for the next day’s lectures till late at night. This will turn teachers into complete slaves. Teaching just like medicine is driven by inspiration. But there can be no inspiration left in a totally exhausted mind of an overworked teacher. Ministry of Education, overwork of this magnitude will only drive people away from the teaching profession.
MOST schools do not have qualified teachers for the following non-promotional subjects eg basic information science (BIS), religious and moral education and physical education (PE). Why should these subject be on the timetable? Some schools do not have facilities for BIS AND PE.
General
WHY do African leaders go for treatment overseas? Why do their offspring go to foreign schools? Is it because they do not trust their own investments or creations?
ACC Alert
PLEASE ACC investigate Government officials who are robbing our government by being paid transport allowances while using GRN cars from home to work and work to home. This is corruption. Take action please.
Lost and Found
I FOUND the passport of Mr Ellis Nakanene from Walvis Bay. Contact me at 081-252-0540.
I FOUND the following documents of Mr Josef Hamutenya. ID card, driving licence, Smartcard and Vodacom card. Call or SMS 081-447-1360.
And Justice for All
(ACTING Attorney General) Mr Albert Kawana, who must pay me if l have to attend court proceedings as a state witness? My boss or the government?
Please Help
THE Namibian, can you please publish our Constitution daily to educate our people? We are discriminated at work every day because of skin colour, sex and tribe. We are still called k....r by our boss and we have no lunch time. Our boss favours some but not others. If we complain, we lose the job.
Sporting
I WAITED eagerly for Monday morning to read about the Brave Gladiators match. But my favourite paper did not run the story. I’m sad.
Note: The Brave Gladiators beat Angola 2 – 1. The match started too late for us to include in Monday’s edition.
– Newsdesk
THE way the sport journalists are writing about the Bafana vs Brave Warriors match, you would think we had won the World Cup. It was a good match for Namibia but overall it was more of a practice match especially for Bafana, who are preparing for the World Cup. I think writing negatively about them is not the way to go. A draw is probably a fair result. I was not expecting more, especially from Bafana who fielded a team which usually does not play together and with the coach trying out different combinations. I think let’s support our neighbours as they prepare for the WC and during the WC itself, we want them to succeed and not fail.
Service Please
IT is now almost impossible to phone on the MTC network at night. We need service.
PLEASE MTC do something about your call centres. When we call for our email settings to be sent to us, we never receive them. I hope this situation will be dealt with.
Various Responses
THE City of Windhoek’s website is under construction.