SMSes for Tuesday 12 February 2013
SMS Of The Day *WHAT is wrong with Roads Authority? How on earth do you start constructing a road in January? Now that Florence Nightingale Street is under construction, all the Khomasdal roads and junctions are congested with cars. One has to sit in a taxi for 40 minutes to an hour, and get to work late. Do you want us to get fired? Worst part is, a very sick patient can even die on that road while waiting for the congested queue to clear. Roads Authority please prioritise your work and do construction on such a busy road at least in December and pay your employees overtime.
Suggestion Box
*BERNARD Esau, reduce the period of fishing rights from seven to two years only. Each beneficiary must also benefit once only. Every Namibian must benefit from the resources that God gave to our country.
*I AM proposing international intervention like in Mali and Nigeria against Boko Haram, to stop the killing of civilians by militants.
Bouquets and Brickbats
*THANK you President Pohamba for the cabinet reshuffle. Now we have peace in the country and no more divisions. The country is more united now than ever. May God grant you more wisdom.
*SATURDAY night, I had to go to Wanaheda Police Station to identify some recovered stolen goods and confront the thief. Congratulations to the staff for the way in which they dealt with all of us called to report for the same case. Well done to the detectives for finding the culprit with our goods.
*MULTICHOICE, please stop repeating what you show on channel 170 and 171. We don’t pay for that. Tell your boss in South Africa.
*PLEASE Sebastian Ndeitunga, come and rescue inmates at the Ondangwa Police holding cells. We are feeding them from our own pockets because they are always crying of hunger. Meals are only provided twice a day. If an inmate falls seriously sick on a Friday for instance, he only gets to go to the hospital on Tuesday or Thursday. This is a serious matter and it needs immediate attention.
*CONGRATULATIONS to TAAG-Angolan Airlines! Today they refused to transport a Rottweiler because it was too big for its cage.
*I’M so amazed by us Namibians. I’m convinced we are truly peace-loving and dislike injustice. Even after what happened between us and Burkina Faso with regards to soccer, we objected the unfair red-carding of Burkina Faso against Ghana.
*SOCCER commentators must concentrate on what is happening on the soccer field and update listeners. They must restrict themselves to commenting on the action happening and not include time consuming and unnecessary details that have nothing to do with the action on the football pitch.
Service Please
*WHAT gives pharmacists in Namibia the right to simply substitute drugs prescribed by a doctor without consulting the patient or the prescribing doctor? The doctor knows best so please stop substituting our scripts with generic drugs provided because we can’t pay the levy. Being part of the government medical aid doesn’t allow you to decide on our behalf. Show some respect!
*NATIONAL Youth Service, Rietfontein Centre, we need adequate space to study as the hostels are very crowded, especially the boys hostel. Can the management please urgently solve this. We are tired now!
Education
*WHY is everybody thanking the government for free education? We should ask the government to pay back the nation for the past 22 years, for implementing the constitution after 22 years. We should’ve had free education 22 years ago. Pay us back!
*I FAILED Grade 12 because teachers were not teaching at all because they went to work for the elections. So for this year, I advise the National Planning Commission not to accept teachers. Let them stay at school, teaching for better results please.
*GOVERNMENT, help Augustineum Secondary School please! The school is very old. Please make a turn and see.
*WE are in the middle of February and at some schools the first page of the pupil’s exercise book is half full or empty. However, I already received six printed letters from my children at the school asking for money. Soon it will be Valentine’s Day and the seventh letter will arrive asking for money for my child to wear casual clothing! I’m suffocating in letters from my begging school.
n KUNENE educational region will not go forward. It seems that principals are to blame but the regional office are also not appointing teachers on time. Up to now no superintendents are appointed, no stock taking has been carried out. Hostels like Jakob Basson must be closed down. Health inspectors, please visit that hostel. Nothing is going on at the Regional Office of Education.
*OTJOMUISE Project School is overcrowded. Only if Dr Fish, Mr Deliver, the visionary late Abraham Iyambo were alive, he would definitely have found an alternate solution to this matter. For now, parents, just wait another 10 years. The man who cared for the well-being of his citizens is gone.
Health
*PS of the Ministry of Health, are you aware of your staff members in Katutura State Hospital with the WCA case? I am very disappointed because WCA is always treated as private. Poor civil servants are still treated in Katutura State Hospital.
– Watch dog
*WE were involved in a car accident on the road to Epupa at 09h00. I phoned the hospital to send an ambulance for help but the ambulance only came at 16h00 and by then my friend had already died. Richard Kamwi, please pull up your socks and get serious with your work.
*RICHARD Kamwi, can you please visit Windhoek Central Hospital as it will collapse soon. The water is coming from the top. Please do something.
Labour
*HOW can the Electoral Commission only look for candidates with Grade 12 and 25 points while unemployment is high in Namibia.
*‘FISH Factory Retrenches’. This is only a foefie to enrich the fat cats and for the workers to suffer.
*WHEN will the government introduce nurse assistants for the whole country? Nurses already need assistance especially in tracing TB patients at their homesteads.
*WE Namibians are tired of companies and even the government itself because they advertise vacancies, while they already have someone to occupy the post. They should really change.
*NANTU and Napwu leadership, Frans Kapofi is not taking you seriously. He fooled you into signing an agreement that will gather dust just like Wascom. The OPM is dragging its feet. By now regrading should be in black and white for civil servants to know what it entails. Nantu and Napwu start organising a legal strike!
*TO those who said civil servants got eight percent because of the teacher’s illegal strike, they are lying. We got the eight percent and 10 percent because of Napwu and Nantu. Teachers were demanding 40 percent. We did not enjoy the fruits of their illegal strike as they are claiming. Nobody sent them to go on strike. They should pay back the money so that they can learn a lesson and start behaving like professionals.
*SEBASTIAN Ndeitunga, you are seriously doing nothing. You do not care for police officers who are performing duties. Every day police officers are stopping crime and leave the force due to being underpaid. There is no democracy in Namibia.
*CAN the Ministry of Finance, Director of Inland Revenue explain how it happens that I have outstanding unpaid tax while they’re deducting from me monthly?
*WHY can our Government not deploy all (several) office ministries in all regional offices and at all constituencies to minimise unemployment?
– Concerned Namibian
Politics
*I AM not a DTA member, supporter, or sympathiser, but I support the DTA youth league’s decision to nominate McHenry Venaani for presidential candidacy. Venaani is a true leader, selfless, and active Namibian who I am sure will pull the majority of citizens to the DTA and make it secure even more than 50 percent of the seats in the National Assembly. Congratulations Venaani and I am sure that you will win over whoever you will contest in your party.
*THE National Council MP who [allegedly] made tribal remarks during the last Swapo Congress about Hage Geingob, must also apologise publicly to the Namibian nation and thereafter President Pohamba must deal with him properly.
*PRESIDENT Pohamba must sack Willem Isaacks from the Namibian government post now! He is a misfit in a unitary state.
*I AM so disturbed by the RDP’s call for the government to repay us parents the money we paid for our children. I would have agreed with them if they had made the call in 2007 or when they entered Parliament in late 2011. Their call is so poorly planned and opportunistic. I think they are running out of ideas or maybe they don’t make ends meet and want money. RDP, come up with something credible or else you will lose more support.
*THANKS Peter Naholo for what you said during the RDP rally. It is true that government must repay the school fees we paid since independence because free education is a constitutional right for every child. But knowing this, Swapo ministers ignored this for long. If you were a Swapo MP since 1990, I’m sure our education should have been free long ago.
*JUST to correct the reader. Peter Naholo said that the government should pay back to the parents but not Swapo. Please note: Namibia is a multi-party state.
Response to Previous SMSes
*I ALSO support the last SMS about winter time. Please just do away with this useless time change issue! It doesn’t help us or make any sense at all.
*I AGREE with the increment of pensions to GIPF. It’s hard for us to ever get jobs anywhere and things are becoming expensive.
*THE heavy traffic situation in Katutura is being discussed on the Facebook site of the upcoming sustainable urban transport master plan on facebook.com/movewindhoek. Join the debate as it will be considered in the plan. There are many different opinions on how to solve it! Do you want more cars, roads and congestion or simply a good bus service?
*SCHOOLS are government property, thus may not conduct private business on that property. Ask the PM. He’ll verify!
*TEACHERS teach English and speak Namlish. They mark the spelling and not the pronunciation. English is not even our first language and we are doing great to speak and write it. What about the English people who neither understand nor speak our languages? Have you ever heard a European pronounce an African word? He may spell it correctly but will struggle in pronouncing it. Another thing is, those of you who speak the Queen’s English have refused to teach.
*‘HAMBA kahle Abraham Iyambo’. I think that’s the constitutional right of the SMS writer to put it that way. It’s most probably his mother tongue. Remember, Namibians have roots in South Africa and vice versa. !khåise sa re Abraham Iyambo.
In and from the Regions
*DOROB Park, Ministry of Environment and Tourism is incapable of maintaining any road in the parks. How on earth do they want to control the roads to the beach? Putting up a fence will also just add more rubbish along the coast as there is no material that will not rust! Nacoma and MET, stop mining and exploration and selling film rights in the Dorob Park before trying to control the little man on the street because they are easier to fine.
*KELIMWE Primary School in Omusati Region has no electricity. Please, councillor of Otamanzi, what are you doing? Do what we for voted you for.
*RUNDU Town Council, we want to see a productive CEO. No longer political appointees! We want people with vision to lead this fast growing town and not people who think too much about themselves and only enrich themselves via selling land. Rundu deserves to do better by now. Let’s hope this time everyone will smile.
*WE need electricity in Onekaku village please.
* IT is almost 23 years now, but Eenkondo Primary School is still dim. Councillor, when are we going to get electricity? The last time I saw you at Eenkondo was the time you campaigned for election.
– Hungry and angry.
*WE don’t have electricity, almost for four days in the Nossobville settlement. Gobabis Municipality, you retrenched people, who is going to do the job?
*PLEASE Namibians, let’s not colonise each other. Ondangwa Town Council, why do you plan to destroy our shacks and you don’t even give us a place to go? Why is it a problem for shacks in Omakulukuma and not for the others in other locations? Please Ministry of Lands, we need help. There’s a lot of corruption in Ondangwa when it comes to the allocation of plots.
Lost and Found
*I, LETTA Sindano Iipinge, lost my ID on Monday February 4. If found please contact 081-780 4270.
*I, MAKO Ronneliah Sitali, lost my passport, ID and my Bank Windhoek card in Windhoek. If found, please contact me at 081-865 2056.
*I, FLORA Hazam, lost my personal documents in Wernhill. If found, please contact me at 081-149 9431.
*I, BOAS Björn Petrus Jacobs lost my ID. If found, please contact me at 081-699 9069 or 081-331 1536.
*I FOUND Petrus Abed’s ID, drivier’s licence, Nampost smart card, and a Standard Bank card in Windhoek. Conact Petrus Fillemon at 081-674 9130.