SMSes for Monday 12 November 2012
SMS Of The Day *AFRICAN proverb: “Even the best dancer on the stage must retire sometime.” It means no matter how good people are in their profession, they can’t stay in it forever. But what about our Namibian politicians? Until death do us part?
Food for Thought
*NEITHER selfishness, greediness or self-enrichment with tax-payers’ money will contribute towards the realisation of Vision 30. Please let’s be patriotic in all our endeavours and sacrifice for the betterment of the nation and future generations!
Suggestion Box
*NAMIBIANS, joining independent unions is our best chance of opposing the government. Don’t wait, let’s act now!
*AFRICAN footballers must ignore the racial abuse and concentrate on their game! Those are just tactics used to distract players.
*WHAT about a statue of late Josef Hendricks (Comrade Axab) somewhere in Katutura? This die hard Nanso youth fearlessly and respectfully commanded thousands of students during the late 80s amidst the presence of the then notorious task force.
*COMMISSIONER Festus Shilongo, please do something again about the shebeens around Eveline street because it is exam time. Please come to our rescue.
*PARENTS, please send your kids to school and tell them to stay at school until they knock off. Why do you keep them at home? Most teachers are back at work. Only those who are lazy and stubborn are still on illegal strike. Let them go to school.
*GOVERNMENT should publish all ministers’ packages. Include the taxpayers’ money they spend on parties. Maybe we, taxpayers, should go on strike too to cut the ministers’ salaries and benefits so that the ones who deserve it, can make a living.
*MISS Namibia 2012, to be Miss Universe or Miss Namibia means having an extra bag, so what happened at the Rainbow Kindergarten Concert on November 8 to Miss Namibia’s dress, doesn’t happen again. Next time, have plan B ready.
Bouquets and Brickbats
*REGULATING” research! Welcome to communist Namibia where our leaders have the emotional maturity of a ten year old child.
*CAN Quinton van Rooyen of Trustco please look in the dismissal of marketers every year? One has to register with new marketers every time. Why?
*AFRICA must be developed by African leaders, not by Barack Obama. Lucky enough, we have American development projects in Africa like the Millennium Challenge Account.
*IT’S funny how some educated people make stupid decisions. Medical board, you’re there to make our lives easier not complicate them. We consult private doctors when we are sick. It takes effort and money to visit them. Now after having consulted them you have to visit pharmacies to receive medicine. Who pays for the extra petrol that’s used to visit pharmacies? If you cannot change this stupid decision have all private doctors and pharmacies in the same building. Have some common sense!
*IF I was the President, the Home Affairs Minister would have been fired. What has she been doing this whole year about the passport issue?
*IN my research I found out that the vehicle dealers on Namibian soil are being used to colonise the Namibian people economically. You will never get a part; not even minor service parts; not even a spark plug as soon as they know your car is not imported from South Africa. Not that they don’t have the parts or can’t order to assist the community but they want your car to be parked so that you have to buy their cars at colonial prices. I can prove it to you.
*THANK you Deputy Minister of Finance Calle Schlettwein, for the economic ‘lecture’ in The Namibian of November 9. However, can you personally try living on a teachers’ salary for just one month? And please publish your experience.
*PRESIDENT Hifikepunye Pohamba is either ignorant or not in charge of this country. It appears as if he does not care. He takes a minister whose employees are striking on a joyride. If I was him I would not even want this minister to be around me on a foreign trip. What if journalists ask him how he, as Head of State, is flanked by a minister incapable of handling his employees’ issues? Are you not aware or don’t you care? Now here comes Rosalia Nghidinwa on TV, nicely dressed, announcing how we can not travel because her staff do not know anything about stocking and demand/supply service delivery. The minister even has the guts to tell us they have run out of passports. Come on Pohamba, your government is a joke!
*NGAMANE Karuaihe-Upi, you are a good man. Continue to educate the nation. It’s time for Namibian men to start watching ‘Good Morning Namibia’ every Friday on NBC. Maybe this brutal killing of women will stop.
*LEAVE Evilastus Kaaronda alone. First tell us where our GIPF money is and arrest those ministers who are corrupt and who steal the resources of the State. Viva Kaaronda! He is a true leader.
*NAMIBIANS, this Swapo led government is a big failure. They don’t deliver at all. Now they’ve run out of passports at the time they are needed the most. What happens to the lots of tax money they suck from people daily? Voters wake up! This is an eye opener! This country will be bankrupt by the time we open our eyes.
*HOME Affairs! This time they’ve broken the record of incompetence. How on earth can someone explain the lack of passports before the festive season? Someone must be held responsible for this blunder!
*FURNMART’s Katima repo department are not friendly. Why should they repossess goods if you’ve just missed a month but you have explained the reason to them.
*NBC’s DJ Maldini, stop those senseless jokes. How can you humiliate DJ Lazy in public on radio saying that he is suffering from a running stomach? This is a big insult. Select your words carefully. Where are your manners?
*‘40 SOMETHING and Intimate Hygiene’, vagina is not a bad word. It’s a body part. You didn’t once mention vagina in your article which is sad because one would think that at 40-something, you’re comfortable enough to call body parts what they are. Vagina. There, I said it, and no one died.
Service Please
*POLYTECHNIC, please do something about the security guards at the main gate. Are those of us who reside on campus no longer allowed to be dropped inside campus at night? Should we be subjected to insults from security guards every time we want to be dropped inside? If there’s a rule which states that vehicles are not allowed on campus after a certain time, please let us know because your security guards are rude and disrespectful.
*FNB Usakos, your customers are suffering with the ATM that is regularly out of order. We are tired of your poor service. We demand a second ATM to ease the pressure on the old one as Usakos is the gateway to Swakop and Walvis. We are suffering.
*I DON’T know how many people at Standard Bank realised that their ATMs are regularly out of smaller notes. I even went up to main branch with no success. We are not millionaires.
*FNB online banking is a joke! They never answer the phone and do not reply on messages left but charge exorbitant rates. Once again the customer is exploited by greedy corporates. Where are the days when money was safe under the mattress? FNB tell us the truth. Don’t you have anyone answering the online banking lines?
*SHAME soldiers in Oamites military base! We wear military uniform with sandals and slippers. We are buying sandals and slippers for the government with our poor salaries without getting a clothing allowance.
*FNB Grootfontein’s customer service is bad. Pensioners stand in queues and they help young people and you ask how can I help you?
*I CANCELLED a savings policy with Metropolitan in October, to make provision for increased medical aid deductions at the end of November. To my surprise, the Metropolitan agent told me they will continue to deduct until December. He said this applies to all government employees (to have deductions two months after a cancellation notice). Now I’m facing so many deductions. I didn’t expect N$320 plus N$120 to be deducted from my salary. The only option I’m left with is to cancel Napwu to get some cash back.
*STANDARD Bank Home Loans, why are you taking such a long time to get back to your clients? Service has gone from bad to beyond worse.
Teachers
*TEACHERS should just quit if they feel they are not getting paid enough. There are more people out there who need jobs. They must get unpaid leave for every day they have been absent from work!
*I WOULD have more sympathy for the teachers if they produced better results.
*TEACHERS must wait for decisions to be made just like a pregnant woman waiting for her son or daughter for nine months. We must learn to wait!
*DO we agree that it is OK to increase the President and PM’s salaries but it is a taboo to increase teachers’ salaries to 40 percent?
*WHAT is the difference between our horrible colonial masters who arrested innocent protesters and the government of today intimidating and arresting innocent teachers who are demanding their human rights? Get real! It is a shame for the entire nation. It will make headlines while the learners will suffer even more. We are ready for you GRN.
*I AM teaching for the past 25 years, possessing a BA Honours degree. I work from 06h45 to 16h00 Mondays to Thursdays, then extra-mural activities up to 17h30. Then you start marking and preparing for the next day. Twenty-four hours, seven days a week. What about overtime? Other civil servants knock-off and continue the next day. Our work starts after school, after working hours. Overworked and underpaid. What a disgrace.
Unions
*WHEN will Nantu have their next elections for new leadership? We want to get rid of those puppets who are enjoying our money for nothing. Colleagues, it’s time we elect Nantu leaders who are not Swapo members so that they can crush Frans Kapofi.
*ABNER Shopati must tell the nurses why he is pulling out at the last minute? We want to know why we are paying Nanu?
*IF Nantu negotiators, who profess to represent the teachers, agreed with government on the eight percent salary increase then they have sold out their members.
Civil Servants
*HR at Central Hospital has more volunteers than employees. If you are short of staff why don’t you just recruit instead of having 15 volunteers and three employees. Richard Kamwi and Andrew Ndishishi what do you think about that?
*GOVERNMENT and Unions, what civil servants want is re-grading of salaries not the peanut percentages you have given us. How can you give a person N$100 and you call that an increase? Only people with high salaries will benefit, not the masses. Give different percentages and give more to those with low salaries not a flat percentage across the board.
n WHY is the Ministry of Health doing this to the poor enrolled nurses? They don’t consider the certificate to enter the diploma course. It’s really painful.
*I THOUGHT the nurses homes are for nurses or student nurses. To my surprise even people who are not working in the hospitals are accommodated there. On what grounds I don’t know. I go there almost every week looking for a room but I am told there are no empty rooms. I was told that in Central Hospital there is a room reserved for a Zimbabwean who is not working there. We are sick and tired of unfair treatment in Namibia. Richard Kamwi must investigate what’s going on at Central and Katutura nurses homes.
Lost and Found
*I, OLIVIA Ingo lost my ID. If found, please contact me at 0817729091.
*STOLEN inside Woerman Brock on November 9 from an older handicapped woman by a young, fit person were my ID, drivers licence and money. If found, please contact U Albrecht at 0814229991. Woerman Brock, do you still have no cameras installed in your shops for client protection?
*I FOUND a document of Willem Liebenberg. Call me at 0813125647.
*I FORGOT my pink bag with blanket, clothes, shoes and iron and a baby pot in a taxi in Klein Windhoek on Wednesday. If anyone finds it please call Lynette on 0816718045.