SMSes for Friday 19 April 2013
SMS Of The Day *PEOPLE must not only think of their big salaries. Local Authorities, Polytechnic of Namibia, City of Windhoek and the REDs, NamPower and NamWater: You are colonising us economically as you are denying us the basic services. You always come up with tariff increases annually, while knowing that the majority of citizens are living in abject poverty. You are literally driving the poor out of urban areas. Very few people are enjoying the fruits of independence.
Food For Thought
*THE youth is encouraged to study at various institutions for the development of Namibia and for their own benefit as well, but when it comes to applying for vacancies the focus falls on experienced people. When will we get an opportunity to be trained and gain experience as well?
Bouquets And Brickbats
*WHAT a pleasure it is to phone Standard Bank Otjiwarongo – you do not end up listening to a recorded voice telling you to press a button and you hopefully will reach a person at the end of the line – but you are welcomed by well-spoken, friendly staff members, who assist you in a speedy manner. Well done Ms Kariko and Valerie - keep it up!
– Anita
*“BIGGER and Better, MTC new SuperAweh with 700 free minutes 1 500 free SMS 100MB free data once off valid for seven days”. But why is data also valid for seven days? Some of us are adults and not teenagers who browse the net 24/7. Please make it finish as long as you use it and last as long as you spare it. Sir Kupox.
*THE CEO of Omaruru Paul Ganaseb is a man of vision. We, the Marubians, are proud of you. Omaruru will soon become the most beautiful and developed town in the Erongo Region. Keep it up.
*HALLO! Hallo! Can the people of Khorixas (UDF members) do something to their office. Please renovate the office. Your office looks bad. Broken windows, unpainted walls, no parking bay for cars. Members please do something about the office.
*TOP Revs, it’s nice to read all about car details but you always miss out on one important point. The top speed of the car and sometimes the price, like in today’s edition (17 April). Ford Kuga is the car that I am interested in.
– Thanks for the feedback. However, when you have more than one dealer in town, prices may differ. Prices may also differ from town to town. Note taken on the top speed.
– Supplements Editor
*THERE is a man selling liquor from a bottle by pouring shots (like in a bar) on the pavement opposite the Mini Market in Windhoek. It’s like selling loose cigarettes. It’s sad.
*THE Mayor of Keetmanshoop should be leading at keeping the town clean and safe, but he is the one blocking the way with the small car repair business. That’s in front of his house (a big bus). Please sir, do something about it.
*LERATO NAM, you overtook us on a solid double line at an incline at a very high speed. You drive a red Volvo. You risk the lives of innocent road users coming from the opposite direction. We were on our way to Windhoek from Rehoboth.
*TRANSNAMIB board and management when are we, the workers, going to hear about salary negotiations or is it again the issue of SMEs?
*MINISTER Jerry Ekandjo, acquaint yourself with the high degree of injustice within the placement of staff in the Directorate of Youth. Five members of staff at the head office are supposed to be in the regions where they are appointed, but they are allowed to stay where they want. Is this a policy in the ministry? Everybody should then be allowed to do the same.
*CITY of Windhoek, we are not allowed to charge phones at the Okahandja Park open market anymore while the municipality knows there is no electricity in that area. Supply us with electricity or let the people continue charging their phones at the open market.
*PRESIDENT Hifikepunye Pohamba, can we hear the outcome of Ngarikutuke Tjiriange’s Commission of Inquiry on tribalism in the NDF. We are burning to know because even the allowance for those in acting capacity is given on the basis of discrimination.
*MINISTER of Home Affairs, please do something urgent about the processing of IDs. How can we wait for six months to one year for an ID card, even for a duplicate. Speed up the process.
*STANDARD Bank must have lost its sense of direction as they seem to be moving backwards. How do they justify us waiting for the reversal of funds debited from our accounts, while trying to deposit payments during Easter weekend? Weeks come and go and we are given the same answers “it will be paid this week”, Yet, we continue to wait without anything happening. How much more should we spent on making enquiries? Pay our money and remember to include the interest.
*SIDLOW Geinamseb, I loved what you wrote in The Namibian on 16 April 2013. What you said was true and I am a happy to say if men like you are still living, why would I settle for less. Thank you again. God bless you.
*MADAM Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila, your proposed income tax reduction approach wins you an award in this country. You seriously took a great step towards poverty reduction. You are our hero.
*GREED will take this country nowhere. We should be trying hard to uplift and develop our country but instead greed is all that is here.
*MINISTER of Home Affairs, please tell us how can a person not be on the data system when applying for a full birth certificate, if you were born in Namibia and is fully registered as a Namibian? Explain please.
*MR KUVARE of Opuwo, do you know that your officers in Khorixas Rural Water Supply are neglecting farmers in the area? Most farms are without drinking water and we are forced by the drought to bribe your officials with money or goats to address the problem. The drought is severe and animals have to walk long distances for water. The animals are in a very bad condition. Please help us. Talk to your staff before it is too late. Farming is our livelihood.
*GOSH! N$500 000 for repairs done to a borehole? They could have asked one of the Rehoboth ooms to fix it for next to nothing.
*CHIEF Inspector Basson, please do something to control your transport managers. They are using police cars like their private property while the staff who are doing the work are being transported in open bakkies like monkeys.
*I APPLIED for resettlement on a commercial farm in February this year but up to this day there is no feedback. We need feedback please.
– Concerned citizen
*I WANT to respond to the SMS regarding the service at Standard Bank Opuwo. I think it’s a personal issue that the writer has with the workers. I, as a client of this bank never see clients standing in a queue for 30 minutes. Sometimes you find the manager helping the clients. The are three people working at the counters, two as cashiers and one for enquiries. Standard Bank is the best at Opuwo.
*CAN anyone tell me what do you do in a situation where a traffic officer tells you that you don’t have a seat belt on while you have it on, and then continue to give you a ticket of N$1 000. This happened to me at 08h00 in Walvis Bay I have a witness.
*IF the seats of Volvos are too small for fat minister why don’t they buy bakkies rather than waste millions of dollars on Mercedes Benzes?
*MINISTER of Education, how does a director of education, who is married to a teacher who receives housing subsidy, also receive housing subsidy? But that is not possible for two married teachers. Only one of them get a housing subsidy. Minister David Namwandi, please tell us whether this is fair or not?
*PLEASE City of Windhoek, Swabou area has evolved into a ‘bussines hub’. People need to come there with their vehicles even for vehicle ‘inspections’ by assessors housed in that building. Many other services are housed in that building. Parking has become a big problem. Please bring lasting, corrective action on parking or strip Swabou of its services so that it remains with services that justify the available parking. Don’t fine people. Correct what is wrong. Please City police.
*ROYAL Cleaning Services management must change their attitude. How can they pay us N$1 300 per month and expect from us to do a lot of work? Please increase our salaries.
*PRIME Minister, what happened to the clothing allowance of private secretaries? All secretaries must also qualify for cell phones. Secretaries are as busy as their bosses. Why should they be in a different category in the government? All the benefits we use to get before independence were removed. By now we should have been getting a car allowance. And why should people from Britain come and advise us on our salary structures? If our living conditions are the same our elders should also get the same treatment like theirs. We must also get allowances for our domestic workers. Thank you.
*NAMIBIA Statistics Agency (NSA), stop fooling the contract workers. For God’s sake, some of us are working for eight years on contract. Excuses like there’s no money to employ contract workers on permanent basis is unacceptable. But appoint all the permanent staff who were working for CBS at NPC and send us back to the streets at the end of May. The recruitment process was unfair. ACC please intervene. Something is fishy at the NSA.
– Concerned staff member
*MTC, we are sick and tired of your poor service. You bring up promotion that you cannot handle. For example we register happy hour or buy data etc than there is no network. Why?
*A BIG thanks to the owner of Olympia Stationers for opening a stationery shop at Olympia Service Station. Pricing and variety of products is just excellent. May you always be there for our neighbourhood.
– Grateful customers
*CAN the ACC please investigate the Ministry of Defence? Why do some members get housing allowance and others don’t? All members are supposed to get housing allowance as they get transport allowance. Tired of corruption over 23 years.
Service Please
*FUEL price is increasing almost every two or three months. Electricity, water and food prices skyrocket, our animals are send to Cuba at a cost of millions and new Mercedes Benzes are bought for ministers. Only N$50 increase for pensioners. This is an insult.
*WHAT an experience. I visited the State Hospital in pain this morning (Wednesday 17 April), with a fractured ankle and waited until 15h00 without being attended to. It’s painful indeed.
*MINISTER of Home Affairs, my mother passed away during August, last year. My mother was not registered with the Ministry of Home Affairs. The insurance company advised me to go to the ministry to get the death certificate or a letter, but I did not get any help from you. I tried to contact the office of Mrs Khahuanda but the telephone remains unanswered. What should I do? Please give advice. I still have to pay for the funeral of my mother.
Education
*MINISTER of Education, you are not born to be a leader. That’s why you are insulting and threatening teachers. You will never be like late Abraham Iyambo, because you are against students studying abroad. You want all them students to go to IUM and that’s for you to make money. You must be considerate because we need doctors not only administrators that IUM produces. Don’t say it is expensive because you pay a lot of money to the Cuban doctors.
*MINISTER of Education, change your attitude toward students studying abroad. IUM is worse on points. We need to invest in our nation instead of paying foreign doctors. NQA and ACC must investigate admission the points system at IUM. They accept students with 10 points, but they get loans from certificate level. Be fair, Minister David Namwandi.
Labour
*MINISTRY of Labour, please help the employees of Desert Security in Walvis Bay. We don’t have uniforms or protective clothing. We don’t even have guns and radios, nothing at all. We are tired.
Health
*MINISTER of Health, please help the students who study HIV-AIDS management and counselling. We have our certificates, we are adequately qualified and are done with our job attachments. Please help us so we can be able to help the nation.
*CAN the Minister of Health please explain and intervene? Why should the admitted students for a diploma in registered nurse reapply after we spent so much money on books, uniforms and equipment? Some of us resigned from our jobs. Mind you, we were only informed to reapply a day before the registration.
In And From The Regions
* OTAVI Town Council, it is a disgrace to see that you are preparing for an Investment Expo, but you don’t clean the place between Spar to Khorab Junior Secondary School. No Investor would ever want to waste his/her money by investing at such a place.
*OPUWO Town Council, water is life. Please restore water supply. We have been living without water for weeks. Do something we cannot live without water please.
– Frustrated resident
*EVULULUKO Senior Secondary School in Oshana Region is frustrating Grade 11 learners. No teaching is going on. I’m a parent of one child who always come home depressed, because some teachers come to school to sit in classes without doing anything. The director of education and inspectors should visit the school and look at the exercise books of those learners. Biology and English test books must enjoy the attention of the director and inspectors.
– Concerned parent
Lost And Found
*I, KASINO Margaret, lost my wallet with all my documents at Ondangwa. If found call or SMS me at 0812968746 or 0812845185.
*I FOUND the ID of Petrus Kandenge who was born at Okatope. Please contact Kamwandi, at 0817220522.