SMS Of The Day 15 March 2010

ALFREDO Hengari’s ‘Post Scriptum’ brought tears to my eyes. What happened to the love we felt towards each other as Namibians the first ten years after Independence? It will be so difficult to recover the feeling of warmth we once had and which was drowned by the hate and intolerance of some leaders. Namibians let us not be influenced, let’s ignore the stupidity of hate!

Stay at home meetingsWHY can’t our Government departments invest in video conferencing equipment in order to save taxpayers money by cutting on unnecessary trips with high S&T from various places to the centre of the conferences? So much money is lost in forms of S&T which could be used for some other projects benefiting the nation at large. – Concerned true Namibian…WHY don’t churches initiate relationship conferences for their church members/couples? I think this will go a long way in alleviating some of the relationship challenges our people are currently facing. Please! Bouquets and BrickbatsCAN someone inform Mr Nelson Mandela to order Winnie Madikizela to stop bearing the honourable name ‘Mandela’? Because she is a disgrace to the whole of Africa. How could she shun the achievements of this honourable man?- Shaqu69DR Libertina Amathila may God bless you for the good work you have done for the poor communities in our nation. Keep up the good work. I think we need to establish a foundation of which you will be a patron. Please I beg of you not to retire yet because much is still much needed to be done. Long live doctor.- Petrus Cheap-key, WindhoekI SALUTE the Prime Minister (Nahas Angula) for his speech on behalf of the Namibians, who want peace and stability in Land of the Brave.- Concerned citizen.CONGRATULATIONS to Dr Kakungulu, Oshakati hospital is progressing well. Keep up the good hard work. I SALUTE and applaud Honourable (Ngarikituke) Tjiriange for speaking his mind about dubious dealing in selling farms to Government. Yes nowadays commercial farmers don’t need a waiver from Government any more before selling their farms they only need to ‘lease’ to a fellow commercial farmer/s! This is currently the case on some farms in the Wilhelmstal area in Erongo region. Trust that our lawmakers learnt a good lesson from the recent case of so-called lease agreement which went awry in the Omaheke region!- Mutakob UirabMR (McHenry) Venaani. I am a youth who doesn’t belong to any party but was appeased by your views and conduct during your TV interview. Our focus as young people should not be on what political party we belong to but on critical issues like the ailing education system, unemployment, poverty. Well done.- Inspired. AS a designated aviation medical examiner i find the actions of Air Namibia totally unacceptable. They should be fired on the spot for putting innocent passengers’ lives at risk.- HKW THE ‘watchdog’ Directorate of Civil Aviation is merely lying around in the office. Not once have the ICAO officials from the States looked properly at the companies at Eros Airport. They don’t see how pilots work overtime or fly overweight both being against the law. Namibian aviation can only get safer if the DCA starts doing its job and start controlling actively, not just sitting in their offices.THE MTC tower for Eros Park has also infuriated residents. How can MTC want to put up such a potentially hazardous thing in a residential area without consent? I CAN’T understand the title ‘Alaska Namibia’ in Friday’s paper. Why use our beautiful motherland’s name carelessly as such. International journalists should be careful of these things. I am utterly annoyed.IT is sad to read that elephants still pay the price for human encroachment into their territory. Culling of such social and intelligent creatures is cruel.Pension QuestionGIPF/Kuleni: We workers know nothing about it! We were only informed of its compulsory deductions and nothing else!AS Namibian employees and stakeholders of GIPF, we believe it will only be fair if we can be consulted, thoroughly, before our funds are messed up with the so-called Kuleni. The Government should please act now before it is too late. Prevention is better than cure. THE Namibia Public Workers Union (Napwu) needs urgent and immediate restructuring of its leadership. From national to regional structures. It pains the rank and file of its membership not to be consulted on union activities. On whose mandate is the Napwu SG acting in the establishment of Kuleni? I USED to receive money every month at GIPF. All of a sudden we were told that our money would be paid through Nampost, without consulting us. Primus Hango how on earth can you make a decision on behalf of others where we should bank our money.PLEASE reveal to us the members on board of Kuleni. We want to know who are the ones behind our money. All civil servants lets stand up for the sake of our pension! Follow the example of the South Africans who fight for wht they want. And they always achieve their goals!PoliticsWHAT are the comments of the Prime Minister and Mr (Evilastus) Kaaronda about millions of dollars Germany is giving to Namibia? Surely this money is to effect regime change and Professor (Peter) Katjavivi should be extra careful. Can these two leaders share their responses with readers. In and From the RegionsWHAT happened to Japie van Wyk from Walvis Bay? He doesn’t seem to write letters to the media anymore but his letters were always thought provoking.NICE computer and aircon but what about the building at Aariamsvlei immigration? Meme Rosalia Nghidinwa we are facing a World Cup in South Africa. Renovate the buildings please.ACCORDING to the Ministry’s transport policy a person who has just got a driving licence can only drive a GRN car after 12 months. This is not the case at Kavango Education Office. Those officials who got their licences last October are driving GRN cars!Politics in GeneralTHE day Afghanistan’s President Karzai finds the sleeves of his cloak and puts his arms in them, I will take him seriously. I see no other Afghani leaders on TV struggling to find their sleeves. Is he trying to run the country or make a fashion statement? I don’t think the guy is serious. Afghanistan is way beyond a karakul cap solving its problems.Old SoldiersMINISTRY of Veterans’ Affairs, some dependant widows of late freedom fighters have been patiently waiting for you to compensate them. Are you going to back pay them or why are you taking long?EducationOUR Government should capitalise on the situation in ZImbabwe if it has the interest of Namibians at heart. Get all those underutilised, underpaid Zim teachers, fill up out primary and secondary schools. Then take our undertrained teachers to Zim colleges for training. Give it three to four years and see if our results won’t improve.- ZTHE new School of Medicine established at Unam enrolled mostly foreigners leaving our deserving and qualifying children who dream of becoming medical doctors. Why do they qualify to study medicine in Russia and China but not in Namibia ? Why don’t we relax our entry requirements in order to accommodate more Namibians? – Mr Mundia, WindhoekGET rid of lazy teachers. The heading is wrong, it should be lazy principals. They don’t want to teach at all, complain a lot about the 25 per cent that they are supposed to teach if they ever come to that, have no lesson plan or anything. They have fridges and coffee machines in their offices and they stay till 16h00 but what are they doing? They are the downfall of the education system. We know a lot about them, but we cannot report them. They are best friends with the inspectors.I AM disappointed by the fact that our University of Namibia does not have a swimming pool in working condition. It’s very bad when one looks at it standing there with no water in it. Please Unam do something about the swimming pool. Bring it back to life.MY child attends classes after school at Jan Jonker Secondary School but cannot concentrate due to the excessive noise from churchgoers on the premises. My question to the Minister of Education is, why should these churches be allowed to operate from school premises? School grounds are for the children to study.- Concerned parent I CAN smell revolution-in-progress here! Talking about the proposal to let teachers work until 16h00, just imagine how much it will positively improve our ailing education system. Let the new decade begin with a fresh, innovative revolution for our education system! I applaud whoever proposed the idea to the best of my abilities. Viva Namibia. Viva beloved Motherland. POINT of correction to the SMS that said teachers are failing learners. Dear author, progressive learning is not only between teachers and learners but parents to. We are not fighting for an increment but for improved working conditions. ACC AlertWHEN will the Anti-Corruption Commission pay a visit to prisons. We are tired.On the MoneyTHE Bank of Namibia should first regulate the spread between the repro rate and the prime lending rates at banks. The instalment on my car for an HP of five years is almost equal to my mortgage instalment over 20 years. DR Hage Geingob please we want feedback on the SME Bank.- Start a small businessPlease HelpCAN anyone please correct/answer me. Why should one be taxed twice? After paying income tax your entire working life, you still have to listen to the same music when you retire. Is this really fair? Health MattersOUTAPI hospital is dirty! Please management do something.City Fathers Please…MUNICIPALITY of Windhoek how can a school not have a taxi rank? Please we want Unam to have a taxi rank because its hard to spend our money on both books and transport because we are still students. Just imagine N$15 to Unam while others are just paying N$7.50 to reach their school. Please make a change there.CITY Police come and help us at Omupalala Street in Ombili, there are two shebeens here making a very bad noise.Labour IssuesWHAT happened to NDF recruitment? We want to know when the selection is because we are just in the streets without job.- M. Shipandeni, Ongwediva In the driving seatAIR Namibia is not the only airline hiring under-qualifed foreign pilots and paying for their Namibian licence at the expense of local pilots. THE Minister of Labour must urgently intervene in the APS/Etale Fishing labour strife. Poor Namibians cannot continue to be exploited while the Government that created the APS continues to sit on its own hands. The fact that labour hire companies won the section 128 case in court does not accord them the ticket to abusing the indigent. Honourable (Immanuel) Ngatjizeko the time to act is here. The Minister of Fisheries must also reconsider the fishing quota of Etale Fishing APS’s client company. – Anti-exploitation, Walvis Bay.Service Please!MULTICHOICE how can one fork out N$249 monthly and you take away Supersport 3 the home of English premier soccer?DEAR MTC – are you aware of the total chaos on your network in the evening ? The latest is error in connection and whenever you get through to a number, you are cut off within half a minute of talking. IT will be good if DStv can bring in a system where by every subscriber can choose what they want on their dish. Think about that. Adults OnlyWHAT is so different between shebeens that the Government of the day sanctioned to operate in residential areas throughout Namibia and porn movies on DStv? At least those watching porn do so in the privacy of their bedrooms and the porn channels are accessed via codes meaning there is control and children cannot access such images. The same cannot be said of drunken people standing and drinking at shebeens in front of our residences, especially, in our townships which is a bad influence on our children. So stop the the hypocrisy and speak out against the evil of shebeens in residential areas as well.- Anti-shebeen, Walvis Bay.WHY no adult entertainment on DStv? It amazes me how people want to always control what others read or watch! If you don’t like it don’t watch it. If you’re worried about ‘the children’ then make use of DStv excellent parental control functionality. – Case sorted.WHAT’S the fuss about the porn channel.We watch it anyway everyday.- YouthON Porn: Boozing, smoking and porn are all for adults within adults rights so to say. Why not allowed on the DStv even five hours a night?-Youth be youth MS Marlene Mungunda, while you are busy with Multichoice can you please pay attention to the monthly N$200 orphans are getting from Government. It’s as good as zero as there has been no increase for more than five years while everything is up. Even Government salaries. Leave the paid channel you have better things to do.GeneralWHY are all the seminars targeting women? Don’t men need them more? Our men are killing us emotionally and psychologically,they need help too. So cut back on the expensive ‘workshops’ for women and concentrate on ’empowering’ men too SOME orphans are not receiving any support from the Government because of not enough information. This is caused by parents who have passed away and they cannot get death certificates. Why?NBCNBC’s One on One and Dr (Ben) Mulongeni. The Namibian nation would be grateful if you bring on NBC TV screens the following issues: Key figures in ODC’s N$ 100 million, the NDF’s N$3 million, SSC/Avid’s N$30 million and the awarding of scholarship to senior officials. We also want to hear about the GIPF and Kuleni deal.SportingFIRST I want to ask the NFA when are you guys going to honour the likes of Congo, Lolo, Ricardo, Muhammed etc. These guys have more than 50 caps for the country. All over the world these things are happening. Please Mr (Barry) Rukoro do something. WE as Namibians like all the sports. Every week the NBC shows sports like soccer and others, but boxing only once why? We want a programme on boxing every Saturday evening.IT is time that Jamuu Ngatjizeko take his rightful place at the left back if Namibia wants to win.

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