SMS Of The Day : Monday

* THIS unfortunately is the nature of politics in our country. Instead of telling voters that this is what they will do to improve their lives, they just say that don’t vote for this or that party because they did or didn’t do something.

Food For Thought * MCA, Etosha and Americans. Namibians let’s calm down and stop exaggerating things. Even if it was true that Americans want Etosha, what will they do with it after 10 years as stated? Will they pick Etosha up and carry it all the way to America? How many of us have been to Etosha? Less than 10 per cent, I am sure. Ask the people working at Etosha who contribute more towards their livelihood by visiting Etosha. They will tell you tourists! Let’s not lie, tourists in Namlish means white visitors. You know very well that our African brothers and sisters are not called tourists plus the majority of Africans do not go holidaying in Africa, they go to America and Europe, they’d rather visit the parks there! How many rich previously disadvantaged Namibians go to Etosha? Let’s stop politicising this issue and start looking at how our people can benefit from this!Office Block* FORMER President (Sam Nujoma) should prove to the Namibian nation that he is father of the nation if he rejects building an expensive office. A caring father will not even think of renovating his house while his children have no food. – Taxpayer* HOW can the Government spend N$21,6 million on an office for the founding father when schools don’t have textbooks and there are not enough social workers to meet the needs of our country?* THIS is unbelievable that new offices for the former President will be built at taxpayers’ expense. Please, we education officers are being paid peanuts, the housing subsidy is little, transport allowance is helpless. Please think of revising the above-mentioned as well. Advice: let Swapo Party build that office for the former President as a mark of appreciation, not GRN please.* HOW is it possible for the GRN to build offices valued at N$21 million while there is no money to build houses for the poor? We the voters will live in the shacks forever. – Concerned* EXCUSE me ladies and gentlemen, which ministry is Dr Sam Nujoma working for? What is his job description? And can he provide us with a plan and progress report for his office please? * Where to Etosha?* JOHNNY-come-lately at the MCA: Why don’t you mourn about farms owned by foreigners, those who pencilled such dealings, mining rights given to foreigners from the USA, ISRAEL etc and portions given to Namibians/GRN, the fishing sector dominated by Spaniards, Chinese construction companies, shops and taxis, foreign companies and shops that makes huge profits and ship out the $. Countries that supported the apartheid regimes are the ones signed business deals during the Nujoma era. You didn’t cry about MOD’s N$3m, Avid’s N$30 m, ODC’s N$100 m, Mr Kandara killing himself in the hands of Nampol, loss making SOEs and CEO/MD salaries. Is the N$1 b new State House and N$21 m office of your father a priority rather than the roadside toilets? Youth issues are your immediate priorities. Think of USA’s demining, NDF, HIV-AIDS $ etc. Never been used!In And From The Regions* A NAMPOL officer shot a young man at a Katima Mulilo bar several times for no reason. Will justice be done to the investigation? Will there be no cover-up? ACC be on the lookout. We don’t need rogue Police officers in Namibia.* CAN the councillor for the Omatako constituency please do something about the road from Okahandja to Okandjira at least. We want this road to be tarred. We are the ones who elected him in to power, what else must we do? Is it too much to ask?* I DON’T agree with PS Negonga’s view. He lives in Windhoek where there is no Reds. We are paying a lot more than those where there are no Reds. Cenored is too expensive. Imagine a bill of N$800 to N$1 200 dollars for a household in Tsumeb. The Reds should go even today. No one will miss them except the top management.* PLEASE ACC investigate Oshakati old age pension office, young people without disabilities are receiving pensions.Politics* IF Swapo members do not understand the Constitution of Namibia, which was formulated by people including RDP leaders, let them go to school.* SWAPO members pay tribute and give last respects to their comrades at funerals, which is good. Members of any political party can do it their own way. If somebody goes where people eat dog meat while some people don’t, is the intelligence of those who don’t eat insulted? People should learn to exercise their patience but not try to undermine what Swapo members want to do when paying tribute to their late comrades. Does freedom of expression and association only apply to members of other parties and not to Swapo members? Please leave Swapo alone!* IF there is someone implementing the [Jesaya] Nyamu notes effectively, it is none other than the SPYL and those who think Swapo belongs to them. What they are doing to Comrades Helmut [Angula] and Ponhele [ya France] well befits the content of Nyamu’s notes to cause anger and frustration among Swapo. – Tashiya* DTA President [Katuutire] Kaura wants to promote tribalism, homelands and regionalism in this country by saying one tribe is dominating the whole country. The Namibian people have the right to live anywhere in Namibia as per the provision of the Constitution. Mr Kaura who was part of the Constituent Assembly (that drafted it) is now trying to score cheap political points. This is an insult to all patriotic Namibians’ intelligence.Bouquets And Brickbats* LET me pay my congratulations to our Speaker of the National Assembly, Hon Dr Theo-Ben Gurirab as he was elected as Speaker of IPU! – Cde E ShuudeniGeneral* VETERANS’ kids! What makes them so special from the rest of Namibia’s suffering kids? I went to school with them and most of them [allegedly] had no vision at all. Now they are paying their dues, and they want to blame the government? P-l-e-a-s-e!* I WOULD like to appeal to the Namibian Government to establish driving schools since private driving schools are not affordable for all Namibians.Imagine N$100 for an hour of practising (driving).* REFERRING to page 5, the article on the Eros Children’s Home. I drove past at five to eight this evening and the gate was still open and children were walking towards the home. So the gate is not closed at five even on a school night! – Concerned* HONOURABLE leaders, extending the railway line 1 km deep into Angola is not viable business boosting the Namibian economy nor is there proper screening of goods.* PLEASE Hon Minister of Safety and Security do something, there are shebeens making noise the whole night at Havana in Windhoek.* TRUSTCO: Can you please tell us who won the N$ 1 million in your competition last year?Rallying Around* WHO is Sofia Shaningwa? What is it that she contributed to the liberation of this country more than RDP members and leaders?Service Please* THE manager at Ongwediva Mini Market (the former Fysal market) needs to study customer service.* BUILDER’S Warehouse Swakopmund, please get a second forklift. You are struggling with only one, we can’t wait for hours to be offloaded while you also load other trucks. Please change your system.* I THINK the customer service of the Namibian long-distance taxi drivers should really change. They should know that they are not doing us a favour. We as customers are supporting their businesses mostly because we have no choice. They are mean and rude and they just don’t know how to talk to people. And the Nabta officers need a reality check! Especially the ones operating at Rhino Park. It’s not all about money. We should treat each other as people. It doesn’t mean that I’m poor because I’m using your services, okay. This is why as Africans, we’ll not raise our standards.Education* ERRORS in physical science higher level paper 3. We want to hear from the Director of National Examinations what strategies they will use to mark this paper since it was full of errors. This is a serious concern because it may lead to a high rate of failure. Errors did not only occur in paper 3 but also in other papers. As teachers we have been working hard throughout the two years but after all is a disappointment! – Awal* WHY do the NSSC(O) papers of 2008 have so many mistakes? I hope the Cambridge paper was like that too. – 3 Pax* THE Namibian Government through the Ministry of Education and other ministries must take action against shop owners who are selling alcohol to learners even in uniform and under 18 years. Mostly in Oshikuku. Nation first please, then money. Very concerned. – Uutoni Vilho (Teacher, Ashipala SS)* ATTENTION to all students who want to further their studies at Triumphant College, tutors are often absent.* ON paper we have a good education system, but visit the classrooms and experience the contrast. We have too many files and little time for teaching.* WHAT is wrong with the Namibian syllabus? We have done Cambridge but it was not that hard. Why should it be so difficult if Namibia is not at that standard? – Concerned Parent.Health Matters* WE the youth in Ouhongo have a programme for HIV-AIDS but we are lacking materials. We need urgent assistance to proceed with our programme.* MINISTER of Health please investigate. Noordoewer clinic constantly does not have or runs out of stock of much needed medicine, e.g. for blood pressure, diabetes, ARVs etc. People are suffering and imagine a clinic that also serves the fast growing communities of Aussenkehr farm too.Disconnections* MTC I fought with my wife because she didn’t receive the SMS I sent to her. Now she was thinking I was cheating on her. I tried sending the SMS when I reached home and it showed the SMS had been sent. But nothing appeared on her screen.* MTC what can we do with 200 free SMSes if we can’t send them?Self-Help* MICROPHONE tips: Avoid talking too close to a microphone, so that people can hear you clearly. The microphone must always be at chest level. This unprofessional use of microphones across the board in Namibia becomes problematic and needs to be discouraged.Tailender* TROPHY hunters: The unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible. – Readers are most welcome to send a short “tail-end’ thought – something to ponder, as one of our readers recommended, or something genuinely humorous. – Newsdesk* MCA, Etosha and Americans. Namibians let’s calm down and stop exaggerating things. Even if it was true that Americans want Etosha, what will they do with it after 10 years as stated? Will they pick Etosha up and carry it all the way to America? How many of us have been to Etosha? Less than 10 per cent, I am sure. Ask the people working at Etosha who contribute more towards their livelihood by visiting Etosha. They will tell you tourists! Let’s not lie, tourists in Namlish means white visitors. You know very well that our African brothers and sisters are not called tourists plus the majority of Africans do not go holidaying in Africa, they go to America and Europe, they’d rather visit the parks there! How many rich previously disadvantaged Namibians go to Etosha? Let’s stop politicising this issue and start looking at how our people can benefit from this! Office Block * FORMER President (Sam Nujoma) should prove to the Namibian nation that he is father of the nation if he rejects building an expensive office. A caring father will not even think of renovating his house while his children have no food. – Taxpayer * HOW can the Government spend N$21,6 million on an office for the founding father when schools don’t have textbooks and there are not enough social workers to meet the needs of our country? * THIS is unbelievable that new offices for the former President will be built at taxpayers’ expense. Please, we education officers are being paid peanuts, the housing subsidy is little, transport allowance is helpless. Please think of revising the above-mentioned as well. Advice: let Swapo Party build that office for the former President as a mark of appreciation, not GRN please.* HOW is it possible for the GRN to build offices valued at N$21 million while there is no money to build houses for the poor? We the voters will live in the shacks forever. – Concerned * EXCUSE me ladies and gentlemen, which ministry is Dr Sam Nujoma working for? What is his job description? And can he provide us with a plan and progress report for his office please? * Where to Etosha? * JOHNNY-come-lately at the MCA: Why don’t you mourn about farms owned by foreigners, those who pencilled such dealings, mining rights given to foreigners from the USA, ISRAEL etc and portions given to Namibians/GRN, the fishing sector dominated by Spaniards, Chinese construction companies, shops and taxis, foreign companies and shops that makes huge profits and ship out the $. Countries that supported the apartheid regimes are the ones signed business deals during the Nujoma era. You didn’t cry about MOD’s N$3m, Avid’s N$30 m, ODC’s N$100 m, Mr Kandara killing himself in the hands of Nampol, loss making SOEs and CEO/MD salaries. Is the N$1 b new State House and N$21 m office of your father a priority rather than the roadside toilets? Youth issues are your immediate priorities. Think of USA’s demining, NDF, HIV-AIDS $ etc. Never been used! In And From The Regions * A NAMPOL officer shot a young man at a Katima Mulilo bar several times for no reason. Will justice be done to the investigation? Will there be no cover-up? ACC be on the lookout. We don’t need rogue Police officers in Namibia.* CAN the councillor for the Omatako constituency please do something about the road from Okahandja to Okandjira at least. We want this road to be tarred. We are the ones who elected him in to power, what else must we do? Is it too much to ask? * I DON’T agree with PS Negonga’s view. He lives in Windhoek where there is no Reds. We are paying a lot more than those where there are no Reds. Cenored is too expensive. Imagine a bill of N$800 to N$1 200 dollars for a household in Tsumeb. The Reds should go even today. No one will miss them except the top management.* PLEASE ACC investigate Oshakati old age pension office, young people without disabilities are receiving pensions.Politics * IF Swapo members do not understand the Constitution of Namibia, which was formulated by people including RDP leaders, let them go to school.* SWAPO members pay tribute and give last respects to their comrades at funerals, which is good. Members of any political party can do it their own way. If somebody goes where people eat dog meat while some people don’t, is the intelligence of those who don’t eat insulted? People should learn to exercise their patience but not try to undermine what Swapo members want to do when paying tribute to their late comrades. Does freedom of expression and association only apply to members of other parties and not to Swapo members? Please leave Swapo alone! * IF there is someone implementing the [Jesaya] Nyamu notes effectively, it is none other than the SPYL and those who think Swapo belongs to them. What they are doing to Comrades Helmut [Angula] and Ponhele [ya France] well befits the content of Nyamu’s notes to cause anger and frustration among Swapo. – Tashiya * DTA President [Katuutire] Kaura wants to promote tribalism, homelands and regionalism in this country by saying one tribe is dominating the whole country. The Namibian people have the right to live anywhere in Namibia as per the provision of the Constitution. Mr Kaura who was part of the Constituent Assembly (that drafted it) is now trying to score cheap political points. This is an insult to all patriotic Namibians’ intelligence.Bouquets And Brickbats * LET me pay my congratulations to our Speaker of the National Assembly, Hon Dr Theo-Ben Gurirab as he was elected as Speaker of IPU! – Cde E Shuudeni General * VETERANS’ kids! What makes them so special from the rest of Namibia’s suffering kids? I went to school with them and most of them [allegedly] had no vision at all. Now they are paying their dues, and they want to blame the government? P-l-e-a-s-e! * I WOULD like to appeal to the Namibian Government to establish driving schools since private driving schools are not affordable for all Namibians.Imagine N$100 for an hour of practising (driving).* REFERRING to page 5, the article on the Eros Children’s Home. I drove past at five to eight this evening and the gate was still open and children were walking towards the home. So the gate is not closed at five even on a school night! – Concerned * HONOURABLE leaders, extending the railway line 1 km deep into Angola is not viable business boosting the Namibian economy nor is there proper screening of goods.* PLEASE Hon Minister of Safety and Security do something, there are shebeens making noise the whole night at Havana in Windhoek.* TRUSTCO: Can you please tell us who won the N$ 1 million in your competition last year? Rallying Around * WHO is Sofia Shaningwa? What is it that she contributed to the liberation of this country more than RDP members and leaders? Service Please * THE manager at Ongwediva Mini Market (the former Fysal market) needs to study customer service.* BUILDER’S Warehouse Swakopmund, please get a second forklift. You are struggling with only one, we can’t wait for hours to be offloaded while you also load other trucks. Please change your system.* I THINK the customer service of the Namibian long-distance taxi drivers should really change. They should know that they are not doing us a favour. We as customers are supporting their businesses mostly because we have no choice. They are mean and rude and they just don’t know how to talk to people. And the Nabta officers need a reality check! Especially the ones operating at Rhino Park. It’s not all about money. We should treat each other as people. It doesn’t mean that I’m poor because I’m using your services, okay. This is why as Africans, we’ll not raise our standards.Education * ERRORS in physical science higher level paper 3. We want to hear from the Director of National Examinations what strategies they will use to mark this paper since it was full of errors. This is a serious concern because it may lead to a high rate of failure. Errors did not only occur in paper 3 but also in other papers. As teachers we have been working hard throughout the two years but after all is a disappointment! – Awal * WHY do the NSSC(O) papers of 2008 have so many mistakes? I hope the Cambridge paper was like that too. – 3 Pax * THE Namibian Government through the Ministry of Education and other ministries must take action against shop owners who are selling alcohol to learners even in uniform and under 18 years. Mostly in Oshikuku. Nation first please, then money. Very concerned. – Uutoni Vilho (Teacher, Ashipala SS) * ATTENTION to all students who want to further their studies at Triumphant College, tutors are often absent.* ON paper we have a good education system, but visit the classrooms and experience the contrast. We have too many files and little time for teaching.* WHAT is wrong with the Namibian syllabus? We have done Cambridge but it was not that hard. Why should it be so difficult if Namibia is not at that standard? – Concerned Parent.Health Matters * WE the youth in Ouhongo have a programme for HIV-AIDS but we are lacking materials. We need urgent assistance to proceed with our programme.* MINISTER of Health please investigate. Noordoewer clinic constantly does not have or runs out of stock of much needed medicine, e.g. for blood pressure, diabetes, ARVs etc. People are suffering and imagine a clinic that also serves the fast growing communities of Aussenkehr farm too.Disconnections * MTC I fought with my wife because she didn’t receive the SMS I sent to her. Now she was thinking I was cheating on her. I tried sending the SMS when I reached home and it showed the SMS had been sent. But nothing appeared on her screen.* MTC what can we do with 200 free SMSes if we can’t send them? Self-Help * MICROPHONE tips: Avoid talking too close to a microphone, so that people can hear you clearly. The microphone must always be at chest level. This unprofessional use of microphones across the board in Namibia becomes problematic and needs to be discouraged.Tailender * TROPHY hunters: The unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible. – Readers are most welcome to send a short “tail-end’ thought – something to ponder, as one of our readers recommended, or something genuinely humorous. – Newsdesk