SMSes for Tuesday 18 September 2012
SMS Of The Day *PARENTS should not complain about reports being withheld because of outstanding school fees. The paper on which the report is printed and the ink costs money, which you did not pay. If you can’t pay the school fees, talk to the principal; offer your services. Are you a tiler, a painter or can you coach a sport? Go to the school and offer your services and stop complaining. And stop expecting everything for free.
Food for thought
*PRIME Minister, with all due respect. You have a huge staff, a massive budget, and a few capable people in your employ! However, there is little evidence of real proactive positive planning and urgent attention to the important top priorities affecting a large part of the Namibian people, who desperately need assistance! Our President has criticised you and your staff and it takes the media to wake you up on the serious matter of our starving Namibians! Shape up or ship out!
– Concerned ex-civil servant.
*AS A spiritual healer or doctor healing many sophisticated problems for other people, are you able to do the same for yourself?
*SWAPO think tank, the government, public service and the unions. The workers are paid peanuts compared to the cost of living of today, that’s why there’s no productivity and motivation. Also, teachers, police, soldiers and nurses cannot afford houses and that’s the reason they are demotivated. Do something about it please before everything is lost.
*Why did the Germans accept and compensate the Jewish genocide victims by Hitler but not the Namibian victims of the 1904 genocide?
Bouquets and brickbats
*SOMEONE please let me know where one can lay a complaint for unwanted noise from the bar and gambling house in Tauben Glen? We cannot sleep at night due to all the noise from the place.
– Concerned resident.
*DEAR NBC, I want to have my licence money back? As long as I have to watch sport over and over again, you have to look at my last year’s cheque.
*I WOULD like to add my voice to the entire nation and congratulate our Golden Girl. You are now the face of Namibia. We love you all.
– Chicco Hiiko.
*TIM Ekandjo only said what makes sense in terms of transformation and protecting locals, now apparently he’s dictating to people what music to listen to. Dear whoever you are, don’t raise your voice, improve your argument. Tim was 100 per cent.
*When Nunu Benson won a bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games in India we as a nation, technical team, media houses and private sector failed dearly in our duty to analyse and sponsor her first attempted glory and talent. We should have sharpened her natural talent further for the London event but we didn’t. Our media also failed to do any research about this golden girl’s performance. The only person who kept on motivating and supporting her was her mom Baby Benson. Baby should be applauded for her wonderful maternal nature and incredible motivation ingenuity. Well done Baby!
– Setho.
*ANDREW Ndishishi messed up the Ministry of Agriculture and made dubious tractor deals. Now he is let loose to do the same with Ministry of Health. Already he is threatening the Health Council to withdraw their GRN grant unless they follow his directions to lower professional standards. Please Mr President, remove this dangerous man from Health before he destroys that ministry too!
*I ALWAYS have great respect for Alexactus Kaura’s views and read his columns eagerly, but I am afraid if he cannot do his homework properly and discover for himself how the North Korean people are oppressed by their authoritarian, and may I add, tyrannical leaders, I am not interested in what he says again. Maybe he should pay the country a visit and insist on not being accompanied by government officials so that he can see for himself what really goes on there.
Health
*I HAVE a big child with disabilities staying with me. I am trying my best to give him my love. He sometimes gets aggressive and fights, and I am about to become crazy. Is there any centre here in Windhoek to take care of him? I am prepared to cover any costs involved. Please provide your details to contact you.
*AS A concerned citizen and medical practitioner I urge the PS of the Ministry of Health to leave the Medical Council to act autonomously. These are professionals in various fields of expertise. Bypassing their advice is what is killing the Namibian public because the professional credentials of so many has not been verified. Healthcare services are in disarray as a result. Leave professionals to make decisions. Loss of human lives is not a political matter.
– Dr Ruth Amunyela.
*THANK you Andrew Ndishishi, for conducting this investigation into the health sector. Please also check out the competence of those who design and supervise the construction of hospitals and clinics. What you find may just stop this gravy train. Go, comrade go!
*SHAME on you, Andrew Ndishishi, for bullying the council to register or whatever you call it “to relax the minimum requirements”. A commission was appointed to look into the state of health and yet you are talking about going easy on the requirements. These foreign doctors are flocking to Namibia and get good fringe benefits. Why don’t they go to other countries such as South Africa? I am telling you I am also a health care worker and have seen the way some of these so-called doctors are doing their work and it’s questionable. Have these doctors’ credentials ever been checked? We as Namibians are fed up of being exploited. Health is not a matter of a joke. It’s peoples’ lives at stake. It’s better to have a shortage of doctors than to have unqualified and incompetent doctors. It is expected from a doctor or nurse to know the basics, whatever country you were trained in.
–Elizabeth Kharchas.
*I CAN’T be more grateful now that we have Andrew Ndishishi as Health PS. He took the bull by its horns. Health Council has been a thorn in Namibia’s side since its inception. Wish Education PS could do the same with the Engineering Council of Namibia (ECN). Operating on double standards has been a norm of these two institutions. Well done Ndishishi!
Education
*I FAILED Grade 10 many years ago. I’m still siting at home because there is no money to pay for Namcol. NTA and government, why do you give only free education to the Grade 10s who failed last year? We want also to reclaim our career dreams through CTPD.
*TEACHERS, especially at non- performing schools in the Khomas Region, should start teaching so that the nation can see the results and not just complain about management at school.
– Aletta Eises.
*WE DON’T understand the education system. They are just improving schools in town but not at the village. Parents are remaining home alone as they are forced to send their children to better schools far away. Schools closer are breaking down, especially the primary schools, deep in the northern part of the country.
*I AM a learner at Ekwafo Senior Secondary School in Ongwediva and I’m therefore requesting the current name of our school to please be changed to a better name. The reason behind this is the name Ekwafo is really discouraging and I believe that it’s the reason for the failing rate. It feels as if we are not capable and it makes us unable. If only the name gets changed into something better, all will be well. I hope this will be considered.
*MINISTER Abraham Iyambo, bring the Bible back to schools. With the absence of the Bible we will not reduce crimes and the youngsters continue to join other churches, including satanists. They know nothing about Christ.
Service Please
*MINISTRY of Labour, why are you giving security guards empty promises.
*WERNHIL Park parking, can the management look into their operational system? We spent more than two hours in a long line waiting to exit due to your poor operation system. Can the exit be automated so that customers are not kept in long lines waiting to be served by a manual system.
*CAN the Minister of Home Affairs tell us why mothers are turned away if they don’t have the father’s ID to write for a birth certificate. Most of the times fathers are absent.
*WINDHOEK Central Police charge office on Saturday afternoon: Speed is not an option. Nor is service delivery to the public! The woman standing in the queue before us eventually gave up on reporting her case because she never got help! This is with nine officers on the premises, and only two helping people! Female police officer typing a report at a pace of one word per minute! Where is the productivity?
*PLEASE our government improve! These government financial assistance funds are delayed, some of us can’t even afford to pay for registration and so if we don’t get assistance early we will just be forced to return home, so please it should at least in December. Everything is ready to make it easier for the poor.
– Annie Mulumeli.
*NTA, when is the National Vocational Graduation ceremony? We are still waiting ever since you postponed the event.
Unions
*HOW can Napwu hold a congress and not have the GIPF scandal on the agenda? And then they even confirm the people who are, at least, guilty of neglect. Pathetic!
*WHAT are the workers waiting for? Napwu has failed us. Our money is gone at GIPF, now it’s only puppets on Napwu structure who were hand picked by Nevonga to serve his interests.
*WILL Napwu refund my membership fees up to date because I was denied access to the congress because I was supporting Ikanga and I was told that I am not a member in good standing.
*WE need a strong union that is not affiliated to the ruling party, as unions should represent all workers and should be led by any capable candidate, irrespective of his or her political status. Or else we need a new union that is willing to face any hardship for the sake of the workers.
– Concerned employee.
Lost and Found
*I, Gabriel Hangula, lost my wallet with documents on Friday September 14, in Walvis Bay. My ID card, driver’s licence, bank card and social security card. If you found it please call me on this number: 081-227 3831.