SMSes for 26 September 2012
SMS Of The Day n BREAD costing between N$8 and N$10 is tantamount to crimes against humanity, especially towards the poor who are already struggling to survive! This is outrageous and preposterous! – Rui Tyitende
Food for Thought
n CAN Namibia please find oil.
n NOT for sale to people under the age of 18! Do shebeen owners adhere to that rule if they see money?
n CAN the Office of the Attorney General please clarify whether ministers or other VIPs, except foreign diplomatic officials, are immune from traffic regulations, especially speed limits? Ministers and other VIP cars drive too fast. I tried to chase one GRN VIP car at 220km/h until I gave up! It was just too dangerous for me and my passengers! Why do VIPs expose themselves to this danger? If anything happens at that speed, no life can be guaranteed!
n MINISTER of Veterans Affairs! I’m a concerned adult now and not a struggle kid as people are calling us. Can you please tell me why we are not regarded as veterans? If I joined Swapo at a tender age I suffered just like those who are regarded as war veterans! This reminds me of one thing that my former president once said, “let us all fight and liberate our country. The struggle was long and bitter. I want to tell you that in exile we slept without eating sometimes or eating once a day, staying in the bush or “ready” for six months, no clothes to wear, being trained at a tender age. Look again.
n IS it possible that the public be informed of the total number of Permanent Residence Permits (PRPs) and citizenship issued in the past ten years? I can assure you 90 per cent will be Chinese nationals. Prove me wrong.
Politics
n FELLOW Namibians, did you pick up how much the people who rule us earn? Can we really afford this? Are they accountable? Can we enquire with them how much they are contributing to the income of society to be entitled to take out so much more than us ordinary citizens who actually pay their salaries? What about cutting their perks in half? Would that really mean that we would have to compromise with regards to quality of leadership? Or half the number of positions for these people? That would surely result in compromising the quantity of leadership. Would either of these options increase or decrease our quality of life?
n SO far the Pohamba administration has performed very well and has tried hard to keep democracy alive. On various occasions he met with the opposition, trade unions, churches and traditional leaders to engage them on national issues. Pohamba has proven himself to be approachable, fair and tolerant. I never heard him lash out at the media and his critics but merely his ministers and his senior civil servants when they failed. He has the most difficult assignment ever but his good personal nature and temperament breaks his difficult journey. He rides the high horse.
– Setho
Bouquets and Brickbats
n FNB Oshakati, Game branch. Your service is pathetic. The space is too small, no ventilation, tellers are pathetically slow. Have a teller for deposits, for the aged and physically challenged, bulk deposits, etc. Have a big space that accommodates your clientele. Be efficient, effective and professional for you are a big bank. Customers spend most of their valuable time in your queues. Customer care is another area of concern. Work on it please.
Ready for Action!
n VAKWETU! To see our ministers attend a party conference in camouflage is a disgrace. Are we a banana republic? Please get some fashion advice. Or maybe this is psychological treatment for your struggle day trauma?
n THE Polytechnic salaries and benefits are very generous, especially seeing as many of the teaching staff spend the very long holidays goofing off (in addition to their annual leave and fully paid sabbaticals after teaching for a miserable three years). The Namibian taxpayer is not interested in giving them higher salaries or perks. The economic outlook is poor, except for that of the tenderpreneurs. These people need to buckle down and work harder for a while instead of constantly demanding more money for their generally mediocre services. Government money needs to be spent on basics like health services and schools for a while at least.
n STREET vendors in the north, blame yourself for your forced removals by your government. Come elections, you are running to elect them though they never listen to you or see your problems.
n CITY of Windhoek is causing accidents with the traffic light at the corner of Sam Nujoma and Dr Kwame Nkuruma Street almost never turning green for traffic from Ludwisgsdorf over weekends. People get frustrated and take terrible chances.
n SOME sign language interpreters doing those Namcol subject interpretation are misleading. It must be us deaf people to choose who we prefer to interpret for us.
n IIPUMBU teachers are so rude. They don’t even want to give us our testimonials but do it for some. Our principal doesn’t even want to listen to our complaint. They must give us our testimonials.
n THE snatching of people’s items while others stand aside and watch, ignoring the screams of people shouting for help when they are being attacked, and now a husband kills his wife with a panga in broad daylight when other men were watching! Shame on them. When will Namibian people have the spirit of ubuntu? Can we follow the example of countries like Botswana where people are always protecting one another?
n MINISTRIES should learn from the Ministry of Finance’s human resources department. It took them only two months to call people for an interview, while other ministries take almost a year or more. What’s wrong with them?
– Student
Education
n ABRAHAM Iyambo please visit Erongo hostel in the Erongo Region. We don’t eat in the hostel and we don’t get study time. They say we must go study at our houses. They say we are stupid if we fail. Please help us.
n WHY is the Polytechnic of Namibia not refunding our money? I think when we signed our loan contracts that money was meant for tuition fees and study-related expenses. Please do something and take things seriously. It is not for safe-keeping. We want to see our money in our bank accounts.
– Tax Davidson
n DISORGANISED Law Faculty at Unam: Every lecturer is rushing to have continuous assessment marks for students, resulting in students writing tests every day, calling September 24 to 28 a test week. This is poor planning and very unfair to students.
n UNAM’s law faculty needs direction and guidance. Some lecturers are just talking too much about things which are irrelevant to the subject. Some have no subject knowledge. They just come to read to students. We are able to read for ourselves.
Service Please
n MINISTER of Home Affairs, how long should one wait for an ID in Swakopmund? I applied for my ID last October, in January 2012 when I inquired, I was told to wait. In March I went back again. They told me that the film burnt, so I should again apply for a new ID, so I did. Ever since I’m waiting for my ID, how does a person work, buy or pay for anything without an ID? Please, I need an answer.
n I WAS very disappointed and dismayed when I saw a man in a wheelchair emptying his urine bag in public; it was disgusting and awful. Please City of Windhoek health section, try to put up facilities for these people because it is embarrassing to see them being humiliated.
n PRESIDENT Hifikepunye Pohamba, PM Nahas Angula, please remind Tom Alweendo of NPC that even in the Omusati Region, those who drove census GRN vehicles back to Windhoek last year did not get payment. Just imagine, neither accommodation nor food was provided. If we did that free of charge, we should be reminded. If we did it for free, why did they give us claim forms? Surely, something must be done.
Civil Servants
n TEACHERS of Namibia, let’s stand up and work together! Who educates a doctor? How much is a doctor getting paid, N$40 000 per month and above, while a teacher... peanuts! Who educates a minister? Teachers of course. But how much is a teacher getting and how much is the honourable minister getting, including his benefits? Let’s strike for a 20 per cent increment and better salaries like other workers? Let’s start in October and show that we are not cowards.
– Mulutiichacka
n POLICE officers in Namibia are paid very, very poorly just like soldiers and nurses. They can’t even complain. Why? The GRN simply doesn’t care to look into their salaries. Although these people also have families to support. Vakwetu!they are doing very important jobs in this country. Respective ministers look into this matter.
n PRESIDENT Pohamba, an employee who’s malnourished can’t be productive, alert, energetic and can’t deliver as required. Everything increases yearly. Please increase salaries and pensions by 50 per cent!
n GOVERNMENT must look to the salaries of the poor Namibian Police officers. It is too little. Adjust the salaries of people in uniform. They are smart but truly they are hungry.
In and from
the Regions
n SWAKOPMUND Municipality, stop treating just one community well and leaving others as a blind spot. You only fix the road in town and Vineta where there are people and ignore Mondesa and DRC because you don’t find people living in those two locations.
– Concerned Swakopmund resident
n ONAYENA councillor, we are tired now. Until when will we struggle to get the gravel road from Nakuleka and Ambunda Combined School? Please councillor get us a gravel road from there, please. We’ve waited long enough!
– Bubu
n DOCTOR Kamwi, pensioners must not come to the hospital on weekends because we have no money to pay hospital fees. Is it right or wrong? That is what I have been told on September 22 at Aranos Hospital.
n ARE there any plans in the pipeline to build deeds offices in other towns in our country? This will speed up the land registration process and also provide a lot of jobs for us land management students.
– Concerned student
Lost and Found
n I, SHANGANO Foibe, lost my ID between Jackson Body Works and Shoprite. Please, if found, bring to Jackson Body Works or contact me 081-212 4868.
n I, HAINYANYULA Erastus Nghidipo, lost my ID and Social Security card. If found please call me at 081-358 2577.
n I, Burger Swartbooi, lost my ID in Windhoek. If found please call or SMS me on this no 081-402 0293.