SMSes for Monday 05 November 2012
SMS Of The Day *NAMIBIAN made items like chicken or anything else, are so expensive because the producers want to get very rich in a very short time at the expense of the consumer.
Food for thought
*THE culture of saving? What about the culture of corruption, stealing taxpayers’ money, silence on the disappearance of millions and the perpetrators not brought to book yet using the past to cover mistakes and forgetting to focus on future building. If this culture is not fixed, the culture of saving will never sink in because future leaders will follow suit.
*POLICE officers are breaking the law by poaching simply because they are hungry.
*IT is time to realise that the dreams of a democratic Namibia changed to self empowerment and self enrichment. Democracy is failing.
*SALARY increments will not solve the financial crisis of teachers, health workers and any employee when the problem is financial illiteracy. We are never taught in schools about money (investing and business). We are taught to become employees not employers. Do you wonder why employees believe more money will solve their financial problems when the problem is financial illiteracy?
*INDUSTRIAL strikes will be the price that our government will pay if they don’t intervene to stabilise the skyrocketing cost of living. If our leaders who advance the nation’s interests are the ones chasing profits, than obviously they’ll have to increase the workers’ income. Lucky we’re still attached to the Rand otherwise our currency could be valueless by now. Get experts to look into fuel and housing/rental prices and advise. Even the US government managed to intervene into their housing industry to stabilise the recession that hit many countries. I see where we are heading.
– Eagle’s Eye.
*IN 2003 Zimbabwe was suspended from the IMF. In 2012 the IMF is back to Zimbabwe while Mugabe is still president, farms are still being taken but the economy is now growing. The lesson: Don’t change your principles to please people. Stand by what you think is right. After a while the world will believe in you.
*TRUE, better salaries for civil servants. But note, we demand better service once your demands are met, remember...
*DEAR NAC and GIPF... The issue is very simple and here is some free legal advice for you: If an employer offers employees an option between retrenchment or accepting lower benefits, that offer in itself is a unilateral reduction of benefits, which will amount to constructive dismissal at least, should the employee opt to leave. It can possibly be argued that the employee left out of free will! A retrenchment benefit must therefore be paid. It irks me to see how little GIPF management care for their members... and where is Namfisa?
Suggestions Box
*COULD the yellow bus management change the evening time slot to a morning slot. This will help in case of accidents. Passengers will easily be attended to and get help quicker.
*NAMIBIANS, let’s do something regarding safety on our national roads by building double lanes, on both sides. Slow moving and heavy vehicles such as buses and trucks will travel in the left lane. This will improve the traffic flow especially between the Okahandja and Windhoek road. It will reduce head-to-head collisions. We are such a small population already and by 2030 we will only be a hand full if nothing is done immediately.
*EVILASTUS Kaaronda, please start your own union. We, the teachers and nurses will join you.
*GAME, why are your competitions only in South Africa and only for its residents? We spend thousands in Namibian stores and get nothing back. Your corporate social investment programme ploughs nothing back to Namibian communities. Our millions are for South Africa’s benefit only. The Namibia Competition Competition must look into this while we wait for Game’s feedback.
*UNAM’s Keetmanshoop campus must be called Hendrik Witbooi campus.
Service Please
*NHE and Standard Bank project in Otjomuise, please give us feedback about when we are moving into those houses? When will streetlights and water metres be installed?
*FNB, is there nothing you can do to improve your service at Opuwo branch? That one machine is always out of order, especially at month end. Add more ATMs for the convenience of customers.
*CITY of Windhoek you are boring. We, the residents of the new Khomasdal, opposite Otjomuise are not happy. Builders use open plots to relieve themselves. Where are your health inspectors? There are flies all over because of their excrement and we can’t stand the smell. Tell the developers to provide temporary toilets for their workers. We are suffering!
* DEAR Minister of Education, do something for the teachers. We don’t want our kids to fail.
*TO the contractor of Cimbebasia Primary School, please advise urgently if the school will open in January 2013 as parents want to register children for pre-primary and all other grades.
**CITY of Windhoek please fix our tarred roads in Katutura. They are like gravel roads. Some are even worse.
Bouquets and Brickbats
*THAT huge coffee percolator that is supposed to be the Independence Monument masquerades as a white elephant. Stop wasting taxpayers’ money. Build schools and clinics instead.
– Disgusted
*WHY such a fuss over the illegal strike of the teachers? Members of Parliament are on illegal strike and go-slow all the time! Nobody bothers with them!
*NBC, why a penalty fee when we begged for our account numbers!
*THE people who desperately need an increment are the police. They are now arresting teachers but once all civil servants get an increment, they will thank the brave teachers. Just wait.
*PLEASE let’s educate our people, including reporters, properly. Government is not the sole shareholder of any state property, including parastatals, but the State! The Government of the day is only the duly authorised manager/CEO of these State assets by virtue of having been duly elected by the Namibian people! Please let’s stop referring to Government as the sole shareholder of any national asset as we are only confusing the nation!
– Upeautjike
*NBC! ‘Inside Politics’ is so dull. Can you please change the presenter? You can hardly hear him. What is the point of watching? Please let Kazembire Vezemburuka present at all times. Get rid of your presenter and we might just watch the show.
*DO teachers know how to calculate? If yes, do they know how much the GRN will spend if they offer public servants a 40 percent salary hike? Teachers are getting bush allowances while non-teaching staff are getting nothing. Teachers with degrees are starting with a salary of more than N$10 000 a month while non-teaching officials with a degree are getting paid less than N$5 000 a month.
*PLEASE Utoni Nujoma, use better examples for your cultural savings suggestion. Just look around you in your assembly. Tourist invest in the country. A Minister of Foreign Affairs should know that. Happy savings!
n HOW can Department of Examinations inform markers after they are done marking that the price per question paper has been reduced? That’s nonsense!
*MY sincere appreciation goes to Taxi A303 who brought my daughter home safe after an exam on Thursday evening past 21h00. He dropped her in front of the house and waited until she went into the house for only N$9. It’s not all taxi’s who do that. Therefore I would like to publicly thank him. I take my hat off for such taxi drivers. May God bless you.
– Thusnelda Isaacks
*NAMIBIAN leadership’s turning into a disoriented figure! And this is an open question to our respective current leaders: who should we (Namibians) call for help if people who we’ve entrusted to solve our problems are keeping a blocked ear?
*POOR government employees are voiceless now that Evilastus Kaaronda is fired. No one will fight for us now because they are just protecting the missing millions. That will not make us forget the GIPF issue.
*SOME Politicians sometimes talk like people in mental homes.
– EUnoovene
*VIVA Kaaronda! We, Namibian workers, want to be in the hands of Kaaronda not in those of people who are only interested in self-enrichment.
*I DARE Abraham Iyambo and David Namwandi to teach for a whole year at a public school with 53 learners in each class. I dare them. They won’t cope. Bring corporal punishment back. You make rules and we are suffering under them.
*WELL done Gwen Lister on your Political Perspective of Friday, November 2! Your analysis of the SPYL’s immature utterances and spreading of rumours, about an accident involving a GRN pool car borrowed to Minister Jerry Ekandjo, can’t be left unchallenged.
*I HAVE gone past some of the hostels and teachers residences and they are appalling! And why do we have police officers living in shacks? And look at the nurses and soldiers’ living conditions? These people’s demands are legitimate.
*EVILASTUS Kaaronda we support you! Mobilise all GRN workers to join the strike. We are treated as in the Apartheid era with no say in our own lives!
* THEY are a funny lot these chiefs. N$60 000 down the drain and now that he has to repay it. His subjects are ordered to make a collection. I hope they refuse.
– Toageb
* IF Evilastus Kaaronda is a Swapo member he must be expelled from the party for working in cahoots with opposition agents spearheading the teacher’s strike.
*BIG Mistake NBC! How could your air the GIPF story last night? The vultures will now circle. This news was known to to the GIPF board in September. Why only divulge this after Kaaronda was axed?
– Poyi, Luderitz
*THE Grade 10 learners who failed last year failed because they did not study. Some of them you find in the streets, at house parties, on cellphones, on Facebook, in nightclubs while they are supposed to study. Stop blaming other people/teachers for your lack of self discipline.
*NAMIBIAN Chicken is said to be sold out regularly at the coast. Maybe you live in Henties but here in Swakop there’s always a choice. Maybe because many people can’t afford the high prices.
– Another pensioner
*NAMIBIANS are fed up with our selfish leaders. Now is the time for the nation to stop worshipping them and start holding them to account.
*SPYL’s kid Job Amupanda should grow up and stop making irresponsible statements. We don’t want anarchy in our land.
*PRESIDENT Hifikepunye Pohamba are you aware that soldiers are not getting housing allowances. Reason – soldiers are living in government barracks. Do you consider the soldiers as human beings like other government workers? Mind you, soldiers also have families. They are renting and living with their families.
*LONG live my president! You are the voice of the voiceless, a poor man’s friend. Thank you, may the Lord guide and protect you!
*GIPF you are eating our money and I think it would be a good idea if we would be allowed at least after five years to get a percentage of our pension.
Teachers
*SHAME on you Namibian government. Specifically you greedy politicians. Leave us teachers alone to ask for what is due to us. When will you ever stop being selfish? With as little as approximately 80 000 civil servants but you are claiming to be unable to pay them. I doubt if you people really use your common sense. Now you are trying to use your cheap psychology to fool poor teachers by saying they are professionals. Why can’t you respect professionals then? That is chicken mindedness if not pure madness. Don’t forget that you are able to speak through the nose because you were taught by teachers.
*STRUGGLING teachers, stop taking out insurance policies, stop taking out loans. No stop or debit orders will be deducted then. Your net salary will be enough for the month.
*ABRAHAM Iyambo, shame on you! You tell teachers to deliver but you fail to deliver to the teachers. You think teachers are fish in ponds who have no right to complain even when not given food?
*THE bully-approach by Government authorities of arresting and threatening public workers with dismissals when staging peaceful dissent is bordering an infringement of their human rights. However, what else do we expect from Government officials? They don’t know hardship, they are assured that their dinner tables are always covered with milk and honey. Please sort out your Ministries. Paying the staff the right salary is the only way to create conducive working environments and stability.
*I WONDER what kids are learning from this! Teachers are all under the trees in front of Aranos hotel.
Teachers arrested
*I AM disappointed by Oshana police who used force against teachers on strike. The teachers are fighting for them too.
*WE as Namibian teachers will not accept that six percent increment. That’s an insult. The GRN should meet our demands or else we shall stay put. It’s either our way or no way.
*SHAME on Namibian teachers! We, the rest of the nation are underpaid and feel that we are not being treated fairly but we at least work. You guys pay N$120 for medical aid and have the luxury of going to doctors in South Africa for specialised treatment. You receive three paid holidays and we cannot even afford private doctors. We work seven days a week.
*IT’S a pity that some teachers are ignorant about being used by members of opposition parties who are the main organisers of the strike.
*AFTER the strike and when you get your answers from the minister tell me what about the progress of the kids. Minister, please get temps until there is a solution. There are qualified teachers looking for jobs.
Unions
*NUNW must take take note that members are now going to cancel our membership as well as the contributions to our unions unless you reinstate our two suspended leaders.
*ALL Nantu leaders and representatives must please resign with immediate effect because they have sold out teachers! They forget that they are supposed to be there because of teachers. If they decide to leave teachers in darkness. Let the whole Nantu disappear!
*IT was a job well done to suspend Kaaronda because he thinks he is so untouchable and he can do whatever he wants and does not even have respect for the head of state.
– KK
Response to Previous SMS
*AN SMS on October 30, of a sergeant who worked for 20 years. If he really got a pension of N$124 000, which is impossible, then I believe there is corruption involved. GIPF, tell us how did you count a pension for this sergeant who worked for 20 years.
*I FULLY support the writer for a pedestrian crossing between Furnmart and Shoprite U Save at Outapi.
In and From the Regions
*PLEASE ACC, come and investigate Otjiwarongo Municipality. How many plots and erven do the staff own? What are the qualifications they have? A Grade 2 graduate occupies a high position, does not know how to perform or interact with the community. Also check how the new water metres’ tenders were awarded and how people cannot afford to buy water with their new and expensive water metres!
Lost and Found
*I, JULIA found the full birth certificate of Moshosho Innozenz Keokopile. Call 081-221 9699.
*I FOUND the ID of Shiweda Lavinia Inamutila. Call or SMS 081-335 9638.