SMSes for Wednesday 23 May 2012
SMS Of The Day *PERHAPS the jackal at the hospital premises came looking for the cattle head that was left at the nurses home? Jackals are scavengers and do not always carry rabies! Perhaps the Ministry of Health should clean the hospital premises and that will automatically ged rid of the jackal problem.
Food for Thought
*GOVERNMENT wants to spent N$153 million on a finance building. How much worse can it get? Instead of planning to develop higher education, you believe that Pretoria has more recognised educational institutions. We only have four. The Namibia Institute for Mining and Technology (NIMT), Polytechnic of Namibia, University of Namibia and vocational training centres. What is really happening in Namibia is a total embarrassment. We don’t need to study here in South Africa while we have money to invest in higher education. Down with the finance building.
Bouquets and Brickbats
*Members of Parliament please embrace technology. I am so glad to see some of the MPs using tablets and ipads. I request others to do the same. You have the money, so buy. That encourages young Namibians to do the same!
*MY opinion of Information and Communications Minister Joel Kaapanda was confirmed by his unwarranted attacks on five journalists who freely expressed their views on the opinion pages of The Namibian of May 18. To accuse the journalists of sedition simply demonstrates Minister Kaapanda’s illiteracy. Sedition is clearly a treasonable act punishable with imprisonment or a fine. Government should therefore charge the journalists if they have committed sedition. Minister Kaapanda should stop becoming irascible and irrational whenever the Founding President is criticised. Kaapanda gives sycophancy a bad name. Remember freedom of thought and expression is irrevocably guaranteed in the Namibian constitution.
*PEOPLE who throw cats out of cars and cut dogs ears off are the lowest and are not human!
*THE Aris bridge 30 km south of Windhoek is one of the deadliest and busiest roads which foreigners also use. Why are there no lights on this section of the road? People and cattle cross there like nobody’s business. Please do something.
– Howard de Klerk
* WHY do you complain about drinking alcohol? You allow shebeens in your areas; you allow alcohol advertisement; you allow people to drink in public! You are guilty, so stop complaining.
*THE mushrooming shebeens, so-called clubs and alcohol outlets kill and destroy our sportsmen/women, teachers, police officers, military people and learners who are productive citizens. But the government can’t act to save the nation. Licences are just issued. Namibia ban shebeens, close some clubs and bottle stores or watch the youth dying.
On the Wild Side
*HOW can we improve the camps with such Namibia Wildlife Resorts (NWR) management? The Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET) provides funds for NWR to improve the facilities. What was done since last year? What is the future of our parastatals in general? Maybe parastatals were brought into being for self-enrichment.
*WHY is NWR management untouchable? This corruption issue has been going on for long. Why are we just reading about it but no action has been taken? Why can ‘incompetent’ managers from other parastatals get fired, but when it comes to NWR it’s more talk less action! It is us, the taxpayers, whose money is going down the drain!
– Unhappy citizen
*THERE is more to NWR issues than what we read. Someone didn’t get the top job. Namibia Tourism Board is the next to be exposed.
A Place to Call Home
*WE all know there is dire need for housing in Namibia. And many people are homeless. What will the City of Windhoek achieve by demolishing poor people’s shacks? Are they planning to build another luxury establishment for the rich? And where will the poor go? Dumpsites perhaps? Why don’t they service and develop these places just for these people to live normal lives. Instead of keeping on pushing them up against (and even beyond) the poverty line.
– PK
*WHO is making decisions for the Oshakati municipality? Removing shacks in Oshakati is the last thing they should do!
City Fathers
*CITY of Windhoek please we need more proper taxi ranks and drop-off zones, especially at public clinics, Central Hospital and shopping centres like Hochland Park’s Spar’, Game Centre etc.
– Concerned taxi driver
Law and Order
*MINISTRY of police please train your police officers at the charge office at the police station in Independence Avenue, Windhoek. Tell them to stop chewing bubble gum and talking on cell phones when working with the public! It gives a bad image.
Education
*CAN the Ministry of Education help Namcol learners to write the listening exam for English with a small radio instead of that big loudspeaker? Especially at the Khomasdal Community Hall please.
*AS a Grade 10 learner at Paresis Secondary School Otjiwarongo, I am concerned about our results. We need extra classes to improve our results.
Health Matters
*MINISTER Richard Kamwi and all our leaders and fat cats, do you go to state hospitals when you are ill? I think not!
*SOMETHING must be done with the Ministry of Health. Minister Richard Kamwi must even go and see for himself what is going on in the private ward at Central Hospital. No proper toilet system, no hot water and even the treatment we get as private patients is terrible. What about those who do not have medical aid? The nation needs help.
*SHAME on lawmakers! You want to train traditional birth attendants for two months and bring back old nurses while you fail to produce enough of your own doctors and nurses after 22 years of independence! Nurses are overworked. Recruit unemployed youth.
– Angry nurse.
*A PERSON just has to see the filth and squatter camp at the guards hut at the two entrances of Central Hospital to know what a disgusting state the grounds, the hospital and the nurses flats are in. Minister Kamwi and personnel all need to go!
*SHAME on the Otjomuise clinic for not starting on time. And if they go for break they stay for too long. Sometimes you don’t get helped.
*CAN anyone please tell us what will happen to HIV-AIDS counsellors when the donors finally pull out?
Service Please
*WHY is the Kalimbeza rice not available in our local supermarkets countrywide? I thought the idea was to help combat hunger in the country. For the nation to enjoy affordable, locally and proudly produced goods and yet the rice is being shipped to Angola.
*PLEASE MTC can you appoint more people at Keetmanshoop mobile home. We customers always queue there for a long time. There are only two workers who assist us, sometimes only one.
NBC
*PLEASE NBC why are you not showing Big Brother house highlights as you used to do in the past? Please play your part and do the right thing for your viewers.
Lost and Found
*I MATHEUS David Namboga lost my ID and other cards in Otjiwarongo. Please contact:081-634-3578/081-378-2342/081-647-9372.
*I RUDOLPH Keramin lost my Namibian ID and other cards at Government Office Park in Luther Street, Windhoek. Please contact 081-221-8744 or 061-2834215.
*I ISABEL Ndume lost my ID around Windhoek . If found please contact 081-681-4709.
*PASHUKENI N Nekandu lost her ID and various cards. If found please contact me at 081-379-8945.
Responses to recent SMSes
*ON Monday, May 21 someone wrote: ‘It seems everybody in Namibia is afraid to talk about corruption’. I just want to make it clear that even if you report corruption nobody is interested in bringing the culprits to book. Comrades are left to go on with their corrupt practices. Who can punish them if they are political appointees given those post by Cabinet together with their line ministers? They are appointed to protect comrades’ interests, not for the well-being of Namibians. So it is useless to report corruption since nobody is being punished.
*NEW banknotes show that we are developing? I don’t think so. They are just another piece of wool being pulled over our eyes to distract us from those things that are actual issues and problems. If only the Swapo government spent as much time doing a good job instead of telling us how they did a good job 20 years ago.
*EVERYONE, including those in positions of power, is ‘appalled’ at the recent mother and child deaths and are blaming nurses and doctors. However, have they checked the ratios of doctors to patients? Have they realised that those health workers work for peanuts? Do they know that other health professionals apply to work for the government but that it takes six months or more?