SMSes for Wednesday 07 November 2012
SMS Of The Day *MINISTER Abraham Iyambo, please start a reading culture in our schools as from Grade 1. It is shocking to see how high school pupils cannot spell simple words on the programme ‘SpellQuizBee’ aired on NBC! Truly shocking and alarming! What is becoming of our future leaders?
Food for Thought
*MINISTER of Education, remember you got paid while on leave for six months. However, the profession is losing its competent personnel due to lack of motivation.
*IF SPYL is so sentimental about condom distribution in schools, wouldn’t it be a good idea to compel all parents to make at least three condoms available when preparing their children’s lunch box for the school day. Fifteen condoms a week won’t do much harm since SPYL will negotiate for a good price with pharmacies. I won’t let my nine-year-old boy use these cheap condoms.
*IT is really pathetic and disgusting to hear Peingeondjabi Shipoh stressing the importance of tertiary qualification at the JP Karuaihe Trust fund-raising dinner. However, in Namibia the only ticket to employment is your connection to or membership of the ruling party.
*WHY are the three mobile clinic vans for HIV testing standing around at CCN Katutura? They have been there for over two months! They should be used for their intended purpose in the regions. Why are they collecting dust? What a waste of donor money!
*MINISTRY of Education, can you please let us know when the strike will end? Will we not write our exams or will we be automatically promoted to the next grade? Please let us know soon.
*DON’T blame the teachers! It’s about time you people realise that charity begins at home. If you do your part by helping your children at home with school work then you would not be worried about your child’s future. It won’t hurt any parent/learner spending half the day or night doing school work. It’s just a period of 12 years that you have to worry about school than you have the rest of your life ahead of you. Parents should do their part.
*IT’S not strange that teachers are defying a court order. The minister of Local Government and vice president candidate for the ruling party is still keeping a certain poor farmer’s goats after a court order was issued. Everyone has a right to defy court orders. Oh. I nearly forgot, the SG of the ruling party dragged her feet with the legal process of the magistrate who was dismissed. How long did it take? You may proceed good teachers At least you have a point.
*NEWSTART Centres are closing next year. Will the councillors still maintain client confidentiality if they are unemployed? Why not train them to be enrolled nurses at our respective nursing colleges? I believe they can make it, if only the GRN give them the best they deserve. These people have been working tremendously hard in combating HIV-AIDS.
*GRN, stop intimidating the teachers by saying there is somebody behind them. In 1999 war veterans were striking and some said there was somebody behind them. Children born in exile, again somebody was behind them. It is not somebody but poverty, hunger and malnutrition that forced them to strike. Your tables are full of everything with your silos full of money.
*I THINK the Namibian nation is a greedy nation. All everyone is thinking about is just money money and more money. I am a civil servant myself and managed to scrape together the few cents from my salary and bought a house. Yet, there is a civil servant close to me, living in a government house, who has four cars and yet pleads poverty! I just pray that God save this nation from its greedy accumulation of material wealth!
*NAMIBIANS, I think it’s time we open our eyes. Our government paid out an amount of N$50 000 (and an addition N$200 000 assistance for projects) for one war veteran. I wonder how many of them we have and just imagine how much money will the government spend in paying them and here you tell me there is no money to increase civil servants’ salary! Hell no! Think again.
*WHAT is the President doing about the teachers’ strike?
Suggestion Box
*MINISTRY of Education and Spelling Bee organisers: The reader of words must not sit with the judges. A word which was spelt wrong must not be given to another speller. You give the second speller an advantage, which is unfair.
*WE urge Unam library to buy mobile fans. Otherwise, please close down the library and arrange for an alternative venue. The place is very hot and not suitable for study purposes.
– Concerned student.
*LEARNERS, study on your own in class or at home. When exams start, you’ll be ready (without teachers)! You normally study without teaches.
*Please politics is not part of the teachers’ strike. Do not confuse the nation! Teachers are just hungry. Put politics aside and face the problem. Not everything is about politics. Rather use the word poverty!
*FOR historical reasons Unam’s Keetmanshoop campus should be named after Captain Tseib who died in 1883.
*SOME people never buy newspapers, even on month end. If you are one, please change. It’s always the same faces asking for newspapers. Financial control does not mean you should be a burden to someone.
*WINDHOEK Municipality, we need a taxi rank at Zanzibar Street’s new flats. It’s six months now without a taxi. Why are you giving plots and and people have built houses without a taxi rank? We need a taxi rank!
Bouquets and Brickbats
*DEAR Learner7, what’s happening to education? Many young schoolgirls in Kavango Region are giving birth. Let’s take education seriously an wait till marriage to have babies. You are just making life harder for yourself an adding more pressure on your parents.
*GOVERNMENT is not serious about promoting SMEs to fight poverty. There is not a single tax incentive for SMEs. As soon as an SME earns revenue government starts taking the money, killing the business on the spot.
*WHEN is Home Affairs getting passport books? This should never be allowed to happen. Does someone have a tender for the passport books and are not delivering?
*WE regard civil servants as lazy. What do we expect of them when their well paid union bosses and their well paid boss Frans Kapofi takes over a year to negotiate increases? That’s extreme laziness from the bosses.
*DRUG dealers, stop killing our children. You are cruel and heartless. Parents, give your children love and make time for them to avoid them succumbing to drugs and alcohol. Fathers be good role models for your children and be present in their lives!
*HOME Affairs head office, how can you run the country without passport books? Do something...
*RICHARD Kamwi, you can also go to private health service providers if you are unable to run the Ministry of Health. This country belongs to all of us. You talk like a farmer not a minister.
*GOVERNMENT employees, you must start to realise you are public servants. We, the public, pay your salaries from our hard earned incomes through taxes. Now, we the public, demand better service. We demand you work for your salary! We demand that your next increase be based on the public’s assessment of the level of your service!
*WELL well, if Air Namibia staff are getting increments why not the public servants? Who is paying who?
*MINISTER of Education leaves the country while the teachers are on a strike! What a joke! Is it to enjoy S&T while his ministry is in total mess? I don’t think that his child is attending government school. There’s no urgency because their children are studying in China or other private schools. I wonder why there is no Presidential inquiry in the education system.
*ABRAHAM Iyambo always say the Namibian child comes first but he left them in the street and went to Cape Town. Does he really care about the children? Hope he returns to Fisheries with his Masters in food science.
*CITY Police and Nampol, act impartially about the shebeens. Close all the bars in the informal settlements. It’s more dangerous and disturbing here than in the suburbs. Stop telling us to call you after 22h00 because you only turn up after three to five hours, if at all. Poor taxpaying citizens can’t rest. Our children can’t study and our safety is at risk. Must we first demonstrate or what?
*WHERE did Tarah Shaanika come from to tell us to go back to school? Is he trying to score political points? Leave us alone! This goes to SPYL too.
*TEACHERS are really embarrassing with their poor English. Just imagine a placard written “now that teacher is striking where he is?” referring to the President.
*OSHAKATI Home Affairs, we are tired and disappointed in you. Why is it taking long for us to get our IDs? We are tired of going there and nothing positive ever comes out. We need our IDs for certain important things. Why are the IDs of the people who took theirs in June/July here but us who applied in March/April have not received ours yet.
*MY free MTC contract minutes went off without me having made a call. I’ve lost almost 47 minutes just like that and when I inquired I was told to pay a N$35 fee. I don’t understand that. What is so difficult to just tell me what happened to my air time? I feel like you are robbing me. First my free minutes and again N$35.
Service Please
*WORKERS at IOL Ongwediva, please stop messing with the students. How can you text us that our examination venue changed to the Trade Fair Hall while it’s not true? You don’t want us to write our exams or what are you trying to do?
*MINISTER Abraham Iyambo can you help me? I have paid for my papers, of last year’s Junior Secondary Certificate, to be remarked through Oshikuku Junior Secondary School, in March but still I did not get my remarked results. I have been asking them for five months now but they always tell me that they did not get an answer. Can the Minister please help me?
*IS the reason why the Building Plan Section of Windhoek Municipality is in such a mess because of corruption? How can a small plan take three months to be approved? When you complain, they offer to approve your plan quickly... Niilo Taapopi, please check out these guys.
*EPUPA Investment, please get an efficient system. I receive my pension through Standard Bank but today Monday, November 5 at 14h00 I have still not received anything.
*BANKS, banks, banks! Find a way for bulk bankers (clients) during rush hour please! Sometimes they can be four following each other and only one teller serving them.
*WINDHOEK Prison, we need immediate solutions. Why can inmates in unit seven not receive visits, cannot purchase cosmetics and no complaints are handled? Even innocent inmates are punished because of naughty inmates.
Teachers
*IF they say the striking teachers risk being held in contempt of court if they defy the interdict, I say let the teachers stop striking but no classes until their demands are met.
*THIS thing of transferring teachers only at the beginning of the year is really bad. Sometimes one has problems in a particular school and she cannot leave. Plus, sometimes a teacher died or promoted but those poor children are left without a teacher for a very long period. That was seriously not thought out properly.
*I’M disappointed by an illegal strike of teachers. The are the ones telling our children to follow the right procedures. Additional to that they defy a court order. How professional are they?
*ONLY non-performing teachers are striking. Why are the teachers at Delta and other performing schools not striking? At some schools all learners failed content subjects but teachers are asking more money. Primary school learners cannot read.
*I can read, write, calculate and understand languages because of teachers. So, they deserve a big honour! They are the reason some are living better lives!
*I’M very disappointed with the way GRN is handling the teacher’s strike. Our children have been roaming the streets since last week. Is this going to continue this week too? President Pohamba please do something!
*ABRAHAM Iyambo failed himself for not accepting the teachers’ petition. He will now face the music. No end of year exams and learners will repeat the same grade next year. Shame, he left for South Africa while there are problems in his ministry.
*YOU will never whip somebody to work and expect productivity. Talk to your people Abraham Iyambo. Arrogance leads to rejection and rebellion. God save Namibia!
Lost and Found
*I PICKED up a wallet containing valuable documents of Megameno Lisias Ierua. Please contact Matheus at 081-339 0345.
*CHRISTOF N Shimaneni lost his ID in Windhoek. If found, please SMS or call him on 081-212 6522.
*I, PANDULENI T Haidulwa lost my black bob card holder with my documents. If found, please call or text me at 081-624 0587 or 081-297 2298.