SMSes for Monday 18 June 2012
SMS Of The Day *I DO not agree that people who are flocking to towns have nowhere else to go. I know many people from my village living in shacks in Windhoek and they have no jobs. Why would I leave my parents’ house just to go and live in a shack with unhygienic conditions? Last month I travelled to Windhoek and one of my friends invited me to visit her.
*was shocked to see where she is staying. Things are far better at the home she comes from than where she is staying now. Honestly, people must be realistic. Dropping out of school and running away from home to Windhoek for what? Windhoek looks ugly with all those shacks around it.
– Proud village girl
Food for Thought
*I DIRECT my question to the City Police and the Windhoek municipality. Why didn’t you demolish the shacks when they were at a minimal number of five or 10? Why wait until there are 70 to demolish? The same question goes on closing illegal bars. Why wait for them to get to 1 500 before acting? Please you could have avoided this mess from the beginning. Please do your jobs to avoid this happening in future.
Bouquets and Brickbats
*I WANT to thank the Ministry of Finance for sending its people around Namibia to educate the nation on how to budget, spend and save wisely. The girl, I forget her name, among the guys did an excellent interview with us here in the North. She made it clear. I never thought of saving my money the way she explained it to me. If this is how she does her job to everywhere she goes, Namibia will have zero financial problems.
*RAMBLER! You really nailed that constitution man. Wow, that was awesome writing and the worst part is, it made sad sense.
*JUST as I was about to resign myself to the reality that good and quality service is non-existent in Namibia, I walked into Standard Bank Opuwo and was pleasantly surprised by their excellent service. Thanks for your top-class service and please keep it up. Standard Bank Katutura can surely learn a thing or two from their counterparts in Opuwo.
*I AM so shocked to hear the Deputy Prime Minister and his team telling the nation that they are going to take away the only food that the poor people take from the dumpsite to a so- called food bank. Whether they are going to distribute it properly or not, that food is not fit for consumption. Why not leave the hungry to fill their stomachs instead of going to bed hungry. The food bank came about because of the shame in the eyes of the world. Please leave the hungry to feed themselves. I wonder if our leaders go to bed at peace seeing the people who voted for them suffering like that at the expense of the good life they enjoy today.
* AS a teacher who loves and follows history, I want to correct the mistake which NBC made about June 16, Day of the African Child. The shooting took place on June 16 1976 and not 1971.
– Nau Aib primary school teacher, Okahandja
*WHAT is it with the name change? Give Single Quarters its name back!
A Place to Call Home
*HONESTLY City Police, while it is your duty to make sure people adhere to rules and regulations, why demolish people’s places at this time of the year ? What alternative do you have for them? I would understand if you worked with those putting up on a daily basis not to construct any longer. Disturbed by the unrealistic action by the City of Windhoek .
*CITY of Windhoek leave poor the people to stay. This is our motherland.
n Illegal squatters. The question is not ‘where must we go?’ The question is where did you come from and why must the ratepayer of Windhoek foot the bill for your illegal tapping of electricity?
*TRUE Windhoek residents stand up and support the City of Windhoek. Illegal shacks are destroying our beautiful city in many ways like devaluating your property.
Running the Show
*PRESIDENT Hifikepunye Pohamba please axe the ministers that you see they are not capable of doing their work. Follow President Zuma’s example .They are a disgrace to you. Namibians are looking up to you and you are just warning them, especially the Minister of Health. We cannot continue like this.
*THE problem that causes poor service delivery is the system of deploying political ‘tested’ cadres, regardless their skills and educational credentials. The government needs to advertise the posts of permanent secretaries and facilitate a rapid deployment of highly skilled personnel. I think this is the only way to enhance the capacity of the state to deliver on its economic mandate which includes eradicating poverty and improving economic growth. Reshuffling incompetent permanent secretaries is not a solution it is rather shifting a problem around.
In and From the Regions
*KATRINA Hanse-Himarwa come down to your people and show them how to make backyard gardens. They do not know where to start. Come here and demonstrate to them practically. Do it the Libertina Amathila way and maybe you will get some good results. Visit Tseiblaagte to see for yourself. Early in the morning people gather at certain houses drinking tombo. They drink without eating from morning to evening and this results in malnutrition.
Old Soldiers
*SHAME on you Ministry of Veterans' Affairs you are only granting study grants/loans to children and relatives to top Government officials and state-owned enterprise bosses while our children of ‘us poor freedom fighters’ are being told there is no money! I turned to the ministry in September last year to finance my two daughters who matriculated with 40 and 37 points respectively, only to be told that there was no money. But after one week four applicants were granted loans. These were two children of two ministers, one for a permanent secretary and one for a managing director!
Education
*EDUCATION Minister Abraham Iyambo, Deputy Minister David Namwandi and permanent secretary Alfred Ilukena please give me clarity on the position of learners who become overage while they are struggling with Namcol, but are still willing to go back full time.
*MINISTRY of Education the budget was released long ago. Please pay our loans from the Namibia Students Financial Assistance Fund (NSFAF) otherwise Unam won't allow us back in the hostel. And why do you take so long to pay refunds? Assist some of us who don’t have any rent, transport and food.
*MINISTRY of Education please come and look at the teachers’ houses in Omusati – they were built without toilets! Okahao circuit.
*DIRECTOR of Education Windhoek you arrange workshops for teachers, which last a minimum of three hours a day, but at a facility without water? Now we may not use the toilet! Re: Teachers Resource Centre.
Law and Order
*HOW far are the investigations to trace and find the N$600 million which the Government Institutions Pensions Fund (GIPF) managed to lose years ago? We still want to know! By a pensioner who hopes, that after having found this money, the monthly amount paid out by the GIPF will increase for me and my colleagues to be able to make a better living after having worked in education for many years giving our all.
*I AM a frequent driver between Arandis and Windhoek and am concerned about government vehicles and diplomats cars flying past other road users. The safety of other road users is not considered. Does our government have anything in place to control this? Are they also pulled of? Its heart breaking that we have so many people suffering and unemployed yet taxpayers’ and voters’ money goes to waste.
*AT supermarkets here in Kuisebmond, and elsewhere, there are children buying wine and pretending that they were sent by their parents. They are not. They drink it themselves and do not go to school. Aged between 6 and 11 they hang around at the Kuisebmond hall. I am told by other kids that they sniff petrol. I saw them drinking walking past my place.
– Concern citizen
*IS the Motor Vehicle Accident Fund serious about its ‘Xupifa Emwenyo’ programme? On Saturday, June 16 an MVA white Isuzu double cab overtook us between Sukses and Otjiwarongo on the way to Otjiwarongo at a high speed. We were not even able to take down the number because it was so fast.
Service Please
*I AM dismayed at the way Woermann Brock Hyper Ondangwa treats customers. On two occasions I went there and made purchases over N$1 700 and the security guards counted all the items one by one. Where is the common sense! Surely this shop does not respect its customers.
Lost and Found
*I LOST my bag of books with ID and other documents. Please SMS 081-803-0441.
– Namupala Teofelus
*I LOST my wallet with ID and birth certificates in it. Ricarto Nanuseb. SMS 081-406-5113.