SMSes for Friday 18 May 2012
SMS Of The Day *LET our President sleep in local hotels to get to know his country at grassroots level. Why isolate him from the people he governs?
Food for Thought
*I LOVE the term ‘state of the nation’. Every once a year the president addresses us on the state of the nation. Every day in the newspapers we see the true state of the nation. The latest: four people shot in cold blood and the ambulance and police arrive only four hours later. Everyone knows they most often never arrive. That is the state of our nation.
Bouquets and Brickbats
*PRESIDENT Pohamba thank you for acknowledging the problem of land in urban areas in your speech for the upcoming November congress. However talking is not good enough! Your office should take drastic measures and take on colonialist municipalities to make land available for your people, if you really care. How about a national conference on housing in Namibia to come up with an action plan with deadlines? Money for servicing urban land is available and most people can afford to build little homes for their families, if only the ‘supply and demand’ for land could be controlled. What is missing is the political will.
*I WOULD like to express my gratitude to the teachers and learners in Grades 10 to 12 in the northern regions who still had school until May 11 and were not complaining about their rights and conditions of employment. Teachers in Khomas region at poorly performing schools should learn something from the northern teachers.
*TO the Ministry of Education thanks a lot for the pit toilets at our schools but how do we maintain them? We can’t flush them and we can’t pump them. What do we do to keep our hygiene up please?
*IT’S good we have the new notes although they look more like pula, but my concern is the print quality. The money looks fake too.
*AS I handled the new dollar bills I was reminded of a childhood game called Monopoly. I never thought Monopoly money would be legal tender in Namibia.
– Freedom
*OH no please. What happened to our precious money? These new notes look so fake. They are just confusing. One can’t tell if its Nambian dollars or Kwanzas.
Rest in Peace
*MY heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family of Comrade Andreas Shipanga who was a stalwart of Owambo People’s Organisation (OPO) and a Namibian hero. May his soul rest in eternal peace.
– P Ndeutapo
From the House
*A PROPOSAL for mini state houses for the president to sleep in, yet most Namibians sleep in shacks, jobless and hungry. The elite provide neither employment nor industry. Skande!
*CAPRIVI councillor Sipapela what you are saying is our President is too good for even five star hotels therefore we must build state mansions whereever he goes! Please you are an embarrassment to our country with statements like that!
City Fathers
*WINDHOEK Municipality you relocated us from Freedomland to Havana. Now we are suffering at Havana. We do not have electricity yet. We are tired of the gravel road. Please build a main road and give us a bus stop and electricity.
Health Matters
*DR Kamwi can you please tell the public why your ministry has only one maternity section (Katutura State Hospital maternity section ), that provides services to almost all state patients in the capital city? This has a huge catchment population that increases every year due to migration.
*NEGLIGENCE is when two nurses work from 19h00 to 07h00 delivering more than five babies and looking after neonates as well. Negligence is when a general practitioner is promoted to be a consultant because there are no specialists. Negligence is when a population of 70 000 has three doctors and many vacant unfilled posts because the places are too rural. If pride was not at stake the minister should hand in his resignation and hand over to someone with new ideas.
*MINISTRY of Health please educate the nation about the high risks and complications for woman having babies at the age of 40 and teenagers to prevent both maternal and neonatal mortality. Rather than just blame nurses and doctors in all circumstances. Prevention is better than cure.
*WE nurses at the state hospitals are working under very difficult conditions especially at the maternity wards.. The nurse to patient ratio is very high and we can’t cope, but still we try our level best to keep up. We’ve never seen the Minister of Health or anybody from the government appreciating the work we do. All they know is to criticise and blame us when accidents happen. Please analyse the whole set up before you continue with your criticisms!
*WHEN I read about the deaths of babies and a mother due to negligence, I could not hide my disappointment again in nurses and doctors because similar thing happened to my sister in March 2012. Thank God my sister is alive but still in a bad state of mind. I wonder if every one comes out public.
Labour Issues
n WHEN will the long awaited names of the City Police recruits be released? We want to help reduce the crime in our city.
*LIFE in Namibia is very tough, believe me. My dad worked for a carpentry company (name supplied) for more than 40 years. He walked away without a payout at the age of 72. Please advise me what steps to take.
*I WOULD like to know from the Ministry of Defence why the student allowance is always delayed, more especially in Brazil? We are tired of hearing that the ministry does not have money!
Law and Order
*WAKE up parents of Namibia! Do you spend more than 20 minutes a day looking in your children’s eyes? Do you know your children’s best friends’ parents? They could be drug dealers or run a shebeen.
*I NEED the views of the nation on prisons. Who decides that no more food or juice from family members is allowed? Some people have diabetes and blood pressure problems. How can you stop food? What is going on in this country? Do you want people to die?
*NATIS Windhoek listen up! You clearly lack space. Why not consider one of those Ramatex buildings and even have 200 candidates tested for learners licences every day?
In and From the Regions
*WE are thirsty in Oshaampula-Ongombehupa, the largest village in Okankolo constituency. Is Josef Imbili aware of this? We travel long distances to fetch dirty water for cooking and drinking which could affect our health. Since independence we have been drinking dirty water. Please our government must distribute tap water in our village to avoid risks to our health.
NBC
*PLEASE NBC our parents paid their TV licence and you only show programmes for small kids in the holidays. What about us teens out there who want to watch programmes for our age group?
Lost and Found
*I ELIZABETH Shiluama lost my ID and other cards in a taxi in Windhoek. Please contact 081-341-6344.
*I JOSY Afrikaner lost my ID and other cards in Windhoek. Please contact me if found on 081-655-5182.
*I D MUSONDA lost my driving licence at Game shopping centre in Oshakati. If found please contact me on 081-229-2841.
*I LOIDE Negumbo ( born May 1989) lost my ID last Tuesday afternoon between Oshikuku and Oshakati. If found please contact me on 081-376-4923.
*I FOUND Mweshidina Tuhafeni Naita’s ID. Call 081-366-0486.
Service Please
*THE issues with Standard Bank are serious. It’s true about missing and doubling of debit orders and no OTPs arriving for Internet banking transactions. I made more than 10 phone calls to try and sort out my problem with Ausspannplatz. All they do is transfer you to the wrong person, hang up on you or worse don’t even answer the phone at all. No one will give explanations. Standard Bank you need to explain this non existent service to the public.
Responses to recent SMSes.
*THE SMS of Tuesday, May 15 said that Swapo is blessed with weak opposition parties. It is not correct at all. Swapo is blessed with narrow minded and blindfolded people at some of the informal settlements in towns and villages.The opposition parties need support from you. Support them to see action. Together we can do better.
– Luckie Ebas
*THE Namibian’s SMS page regularly features SMSes by medical staff about the deplorable conditions they have to work in. Yet the Ministry of Health and Social Services blatantly refuses to take drastic action to turn the situation around. No wonder medical staff are demoralised. Also the salaries of nursing staff are appallingly low in comparison to, for example, South African nurses. Nursing is one of the most demanding jobs in the working sector. So pay them what they deserve.
*THE teacher who blames the primary teachers for a poor foundation in accounting should leave the career as it is clear he/she does not know the basic curriculum for education. This is shocking! Where are we taking education when teachers make such statements!