* Response to date of death of John Muafangejo.

Namibia’s best known artist, John Ndevasia Muafangejo, was born in 1943 and died on November 27 1987. He is now considered among the best exponents of linocut in the twentieth century. Thanks to the National Art Gallery of Namibia for the help.
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* Response to Who is Chris Smith?A grumpy old man, huge ego, arrogant and renegade product of a very old English Public School. A tertiary technocrat (extraction metallurgist) and UCT business trained (PMD) with love of managing and motivating, policy thinking, performance enhancement and quantitative analysis but intolerant of the dishonest, incompetent, greedy, ill informed and especially, intellectual sheep. 39 years in Africa (Uganda, Botswana, Namibia), 29 years in Namibia. Managed mineral recovery plants (18 yrs), self employed analyst / project manager (7 yrs) and OPM under Cabinet Secretariat (97 – 04) putting in performance based budget system for Finance; retired to travel trans Africa solo on motorcycle to Egypt and Europe plus other long trips. Now reclusive to write and stir creative juices in others! Still rides large black motorcycle. Namibian who believes.- Chris Smith* Response to the SMS on January 27 claiming the Ministry of Gender Equality and Child Welfare is one of the ministries that does not have computers, even old ones, and that their office equipment is in a state of disrepair.Setting the record straight.Our Ministry was relocated from Juvenis Building to Trust Centre building to allow for renovation and construction, after a feasibility study found that the building was not safe to be used. When we came to the Trust Centre building we became one of the victims of thieves, not only once, but twice (September 2007 and April 2008) respectively. Investigation into these thefts are still continuing.Financial year 2007/08Stolen new computers and laptops• Nine (9) computers• Seven (7) hard drives• Five (5) laptopsThis means that we had computers new and old in stock prior to the theft.Replacement – Financial year 2008/09• Ten (10) computers• Five (5) laptopsFinancial year 2009/10 – Purchases• Thirty (30) computers• Fifteen (15) laptopsDonation from our development partners• Fifteen (15) computers from Etsip• Eight (8) computers from Unicef• Two (2) laptops from UnicefOur Ministry has embarked on purchasing computers annually as we employ additional staff members.Therefore, this SMS is devoid of any truthAN ShithigonaMinistry of Gender Equality and Child Welfare