SMSes for Tuesday 06 November 2012
SMS Of The Day *NAPWU, Nantu and Public Service Commission task force, why are you negotiating for two solid years without any tangible results? Are you not aware of inflation? Civil servants, withdraw your union membership fees for six months or is it Letshego and Nammic cash loans that bind you and render you powerless to decide your destiny. Stop making noise without action.
Food for Thought
*TO all Namibian leaders, with due respect! Always remember that you are there for the people. Let our anger not make us say things which will affect the greater population of Namibia. A minister, chasing people who serve the public, to the private sector is selfishness! Your immediate family don’t get treated at government hospitals but at private ones. Who will help our poor extended families if all nurses go to the private sector? Richard Kamwi, think twice and withdraw your statement.
*WHY are Namibian people so confused just because of money? Let us try to face the fact and do things that bring development to our precious Namibia.
*MINISTER of Labour, just a thought. Call a full meeting with a representative of each labour union please! Inform them of the proper/legal procedures to avoid the bad situation as experienced with the teachers — for the past week — affecting students/exams etc. Also, why not rule that all labour/strike proposals go first through your office so that you can assist, co-ordinate, and possibly resolve before all workers lose out again!
*THE Government of Namibia and the entire nation should consider implementing voting as from the age of 16. We also want to have a say.
*AN African scholar once said, “in Africa an individual who talks the loudest often inevitably becomes the occupier of the highest office irrespective of his leadership skills and credentials”. Let’s see whether the three nominated candidates for the ruling party, to possibly lead this country, have the necessary skills to to deal with social calamities besieging our beloved country, such as labour unrest, massive corruption, political intolerance, government sanctioned Apartheid favouring certain youth groups over others as well as the conflagration between ruling party and the State.
Bouquets and Brickbats
*CONGRATULATIONS! I hope the private sector will build more hospitals to accommodate nurses from the Ministry of Health. Those who want to study nursing and work for GRN, be ready to be satisfied with the little you are going to get, otherwise you will be told to leave once you open your mouth.
*SHAME on you Windhoek Jazz Festival organisers! How could you cut Lira’s performance short? We paid to see her and she wanted to perform! No wonder people started leaving after that! Please organise better in future and give us what we paid for!
– Disappointed jazz lover
*DOREEN Sioka spoke out strongly against parents who let their children sell their bodies in order to put food on the table. She must explain how and who will put food on the table, if they (ministers) are opposing a N$100 grant.
*THE food given to the inmates at the Windhoek Police Station is of poor standard. The soup is so unpalatable and the pap is raw. Even a hungry dog won’t eat it but the poor inmates have no choice. Wednesdays and Sundays are the only days inmates receive meat. I wonder, does this station have a nutritionist? Please change your cooking style.
*I DON’T know whether the father of the nation knows that we are working without X-rays at Katutura Hospital because all qualified radiographers have resigned to go to private hospitals as our Health Minister advised them to do. This is a disgrace. Katutura Hospital is a big referral hospital and it cannot operate like this.
n NBC Damara/Nama Sunday programmes were deurmekaar. What is wrong with the producer who works over the weekend?
– Maria from the south.
*I SPENT my youth fighting colonialism through Swapo, Nanso, church and labour unions. Before independence I had the following membership cards: Elcin, Swapo, SPYL, Nantu, Nanso and after independence, Napwu. Today I parted ways with the majority of the listed organisations because their heads are more in Swapo than handling the issues that they are elected and paid for. Public workers, resign from pro-Swapo unions if you want to be heard. Forward Comrades, forward! Victory is certain.
*NAMIBIANS have this bad habit of leaving when the last act (the main act) starts to perform. Event organisers, please start planning accordingly.
*NBC and Omulunga radio, please update your adverts. So many are outdated. Grade 10 and 12s are long done with their exams but you still sing the outdated song over and over.
*WHY on earth was the parking on the sidewalk opposite Woermann and Brock in Klein-Windhoek removed. I believe it was ordered by the UN. Are they really that powerful? God forbid that an organisation with such a tarnished reputation starts prescribing to our government what to do or not to do!
*HOME Affairs has issued the brown travel document to non-Namibian citizens. Why must we give back the brown passport once you get the green one? It doesn’t make sense. The Deputy Permanent Secretary and the whole management must be replaced.
*I FEEL pity for our nation. People are drinking too much. Just go to the police stations and our hospitals at month ends. You will see how our police officers are suffering. They cannot even manage to control those who are drunk.
*KELVIN Kondjeni Naholo, I really enjoyed reading your letter. You at least walk around with your eyes and ears open. I personally thought the letter was written by a previously advantaged. I just don’t know what the future holds for us in Africa. It’s frightening!
*TEACHERS have every right to strike as per our constitution and labour law but it is extremely amazing and disappointing that our educators do not understand the difference between a protected and unprotected strike. I believe the striking have obtained higher education to enable them to understand a host of other things, among them, our country’s laws and especially the laws that regulate their employment. Educators have a huge responsibility towards the children they teach and to our nation. Their un-procedural and unprotected actions are irresponsible, reckless and deserve no applause. Where is Nantu in all this mess?
– Disappointed Citizen
Service Please
*ABRAHAM Iyambo, tell your officers to pay the loan for our children who are studying in Russia. They don’t have food to eat, transport to school etc. Some parents don’t have money to send them. Please take it serious.
*MINISTRY of Home Affairs and Immigration, please do something to upgrade the services rendered by Civic Departments. It has been more than two decades after Independence but your citizens still suffer. They stand in long queues from 05h00 to 14h00 due to insufficient civic departments.
*WHAT happened to Windhoek VTC? The students did not receive feedback from the ministry on when they will receive their money and the principal is forever not around if one is looking for him. Please investigate for us because they want us to go on holiday without our money.
*BANK Windhoek Otjiwarongo, please get more tellers than the usual two, especially at the end of the month.
*NAMPOST Outapi, do something to speed up the service. Most of us leave our offices to pay our accounts, TV licenses or withdraw money but you find long queues there and only two counters that are open. You find people sitting on the floor because the officer left the counter to look for parcels. Can you employ more people or open one more post office to avoid collapse and extra long queues.
*WHAT is wrong with Okahao TVs? We are sick and tired of the signal going on and off. Please, Albertus Auchamub do something. What if we did not pay our TV licences?
Teachers
*IT seems Kavango teachers are satisfied with what they are paid. No wonder schools like Omega, 270 km from Rundu and 90 km from the circuit in a bush area with zero services except barracks left by colonial governments are given N$750 bush allowance, shame on you! You fail to stand with your colleagues to fight for your own benefits.
*ALFRED Ilukena, David Namwandi and Abraham Iyambo are well qualified teachers, so, it will be very easy for them to start teleconferencing lessons throughout Namibia. Unfortunately, they all majored in lower primary phase, I wonder how they are going to deliver, deliver, deliver the content for Grades 5 to 11.
*JUST imagine, the learners at Okahao Circuit, especially Etalaleko SSS are starting with exams on November 7 but yet teachers are still on strike. When is this strike going to end and who is going to invigilate or are we not going to write the exam?
*ALFRED Ilukena and your ministers, you can’t fool us. Since October 26 you are telling the nation that the salary negotiations are in an advanced stage. We don’t want advanced stage. We want money! So, advanced stage is equal to no school.
Civil Servants
*THE Ministry of Labour should investigate at the military bases, especially Suiderhof base and Leopard Valley, where civilians are treated like slaves. They no longer know their duty. They are made to cut grass from January to January in the hot sun and are forced to get rid of the monkeys the soldiers shot. This is not fair.
*MINISTER Richard Kamwi, when does one claim camping rate and what is camping? What rate must one claim if he or she does not have camping items at all? Please tell us. We are tired.
– Unhappy malaria spraying man
*FOR better public service conditions, let’s join the teachers. Government is not taking us serious.
Lost and Found
*I FOUND the drivers licence, ID and other cards of Jodene Bonta Willemse. Contact me at 0817396117 or 081-739 6117.
*I, SOFIA Haipinge lost my wallet around Windhoek with my ID, bank cards etc. If found, please contact me on 081-286 6220.
*I, LETTITIA Pohamba Andjene lost my ID in Outapi. If found, please SMS 081-805 5958.
*LARGE reward offered: my old Acer Travelmate laptop computer and Iomega hard drive were stolen in Swakopmund last Tuesday October 30. If found, call John at 081-332 0832.