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n THE nation should stand up against the recent NBC decision to broadcast news at seven. This is a stupid decision that puts us into a difficult position. Seven is too early.

Food For Thought n OUR Government is gambling with our precious natural resource, water. We therefore demand that the water issue be dealt with by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on natural resources or alternatively tested in a competent court of law for clarity on the supply of water to the nation. Water bills must be paid by our Government to NamWater or alternatively de-commercialised. All income from water for LAs is controlled and taken over by NamWater for its benefit. n WHY do we not get to read The Namibian newspaper on Air Namibia?Flush Call! n CABINET directive to set up toilets? There are one too many of those nonsensical directives – pay N$38 million pension to ministers, what a directive! Angula is consulting us and we are responding to the Cabinet directive. Let us talk!Trophy Hunting n TOTALLY agree that we have seen enough trophy hunter photos in newspapers! How sad! Biggest leopard killed! Enough!Shebeens n THE Elcin Bishop should take his anti-alcohol crusade to the capital: 1. Picket at Nambrew factory to stop producing alcohol, 2. Advise NBC and newspapers to stop flighting alcohol-based adverts, 3. Advise Govt/municipalities to cancel or withdraw all liquor licences, 4. Advise Govt to outlaw importation of any alcohol, 5. Or Govt impose exorbitant sin taxes on alcohol. In doing this, he should present biblical proof that alcohol is the ultimate cause of sin in this society. Or have the bishops failed to lure people to go to church? – Dr Mn WE support our Bishop (Zephania) Kameeta, the clergymen and the community of Karasburg for their stance on illegal shebeens and their hours of operations. It should be clear that the call is for the control of illegal shebeens and not for legal ones. Those who are demonstrating are exercising their right like anything else. Please continue exercising your rights by demonstrating and don’t be intimidated. – From the SouthPolitics n OMUTHIYA. I don’t think the RDP lost the election because of intimidation. We had our party agents well in place. The fact that we involved NSHR in our campaign is costing us a lot. If we allow them to continue the same may happen in Tobias Hainyeko. Please take them out! Let us campaign ourselves.n THE Swapo Party Youth League scares me. I think that the young ones have a party of their own and they are hibernating behind the name of our party. Or else, if we can still call them by the name Swapo Party Youth League, then our party is deeply troubled and divided. It is really a painful to experience such things as the youth publicly questioning the Swapo Government programmes and agreements and Cabinet decisions through personalised attacks on individual ministers.n I AM glad that the SPYL has finally realised that the Swapo Party structures do not work very well. I am a bona fide Swapo member, but to be honest our structures are really good for nothing especially for us grassroots members!n CAN political leaders please mind their language when addressing their supporters? We are sick and tired of useless and bad language from the so-called leaders. Anyhow empty drums make a lot of noise. – Mattyn WILL the President of Namibia appoint the Deputy Minister of Safety and Security!Where To Etosha? n WERE Cde Nekundi and Cde Kapere born a day after the Millennium Compact was signed? As for the rest of us, we have been consulting with Regional and Local Authorities, Government Institutions, the Swapo Manifesto, the public and Cabinet Ministers to give life to the document that today the two comrades hold as evidence of corruption against the Minister of Works and Transport.n NOTHING is private in Government, that means public. Publish the MCA in the print media for everyone to get the facts and make decisions. It’s time all ministers retire now! – I agree that the facts need to be spelled out. It is incomprehensible that Government is allowing controversy and confusion over the Etosha issue to gather a head of steam through a lack of transparency. For now, the implications of the Compact are far from clear. Etosha is a national asset and Government should have offered a straightforward explanation from the outset. In short, either those details that are available are being misread, or the issue is being used as a political football, or there may be some truth to the claims. Until Government clarifies the matter, it is leaving the door wide open for speculation. – News Editorn OUR leaders’ greed will lead to our country’s downfall. Please ACC investigate this Etosha controversy. Grant for what? The Etosha Park is for our children and the generations to come. If money was embezzled, kickbacks and misrepresentation of facts were involved, then let the law take its course. We are tired of egocentric leaders who do not think further than their noses.n DO ministries implement national projects on their own without approval from the Cabinet? Are proposals not scrutinised by a relevant body before being implemented?n DETAILS are still sketchy at this stage, but this MCA-Etosha saga [allegedly] has the elements as detailed in the book, ‘Confessions of an Economic Hitman’. A must read for each and every citizen of the so-called developing countries, and especially their leaders.n HOW can Tobie (Aupindi) (NWR), appointed by Government, running a Government body, with Namibian taxpayers’ money, be answerable to foreigners (MCA)?n IF Swapo is always talking of collective decision why are they blaming Mr Helmut Angula alone instead of the whole GRN when it comes to the MCA agreement.n SPYL and Swapo seems to have the country’s priorities twisted. Why the big fuss about the Americans and Etosha, I am sure it would not have been such a big deal or a deal at all if it was the Chinese. After all they already took over the building industry and with it opportunities meant for Namibians and sadly this seems to be OK with SPYL and Swapo. Is that not hypocritical?In And From The Regions n THE village secretaries are in big trouble with the car allowance they get. There is no maintenance included in the allowance, whilst this is included for those in Government.n LEADERS of Omaheke when will you think of a vocational school in this region?n WHY does the Oshikoto Regional Council want to build the Oniipa constituency office far from the people? How will people reach that place as there is no taxi rank, water or electricity. Please consider the people.n ONGWEDIVA town planner please put the open road to the west of Better Housing Mweshipandeka.n ONDANGWA is seriously deteriorating: shebeens are allowed to be open 24 hours, noise pollution at night, the open market is a health hazard, unemployment getting worse. Town Council, politicians and civil servants please deliver or step down!Education n WHY is everybody concerned and complaining about teachers’ duties but not worrying about their salaries? Teachers are people like others! – Worriedn IT is usual for all schools, where development funds are outstanding, to call upon learners to bring their parents top school to discuss these matters.Bouquets and Brickbats n CONGRATULATIONS to the Namibian Cricket team and women’s U-20 soccer team. You both did us proud. Keep up the good work.n THANK you very much NBC for showing us how Government houses are abused. Keep it up and it’s a good example for other towns to follow.General n WHAT does it help to put rubbish bins in the Namib Park if they are not emptied regularly? Rather set up signs urging people to take their refuse along. Around Kriess se Rus and Ganab, it’s plastic and bottles all over the desert. Shame.n SHAME on the Swapo Municipality of Windhoek, why are you changing street names at the cost of the ratepayers? Is it not better to use that money to pay water and electricity bills for those poor house owners who are evicted each day in Namib
ia? We were never evicted in South West Africa, comrades what are you doing with your own people?n PLEASE Help: GIPF. Some civil servants of the then government privatised their pensions in 1989 and others not. What happened to the pensions of those who didn’t privatise? – Concerned Servantn THE Windhoek Show was a disaster, it looked like a street market. Poor organisation, far fewer exhibitors than in all past years.n SOME of the fisheries inspectors’ supervisors are cheating with overtime. They claim high overtime every month, some of them pack their cars at the office and disappear. Some are seen in shebeens during working hours. Please ACC come and investigate.Nature’s Call n ROADSIDE toilets: Who will clean them? Who will secure them and prevent theft? Who will protect users against robbery and rape? Get real!n I FULLY agree with the comments of Desie Heita and Petronella of New Era that flushing toilets are indeed not needed in this day and time along national roads. They must first be built at Aus settlement where the ordinary person must still suffer with the bucket system. Karasburg and Otavi have been sorted out. Why not consider Aus and the other towns.Matters Of Belief n IT’S clear (Veronica) de Klerk (of Women’s Action for Development) is ignorant about black African culture. She must stop calling our trusted and dependable traditional doctors by a derogatory term “witchdoctors”. Even medical doctors make fatal errors on the operation table. Also the western world relies on their traditional doctors known as magicians!n WHY must people go to witchdoctors, instead of going to church and believing in God for help. I am appealing to Government to stop these acts. Churches should also stand up and do something. Even people who say they go to church also visit witchdoctors and some pastors too. Government and spiritual leaders should do something fast. God bless our nation. – Pastor Nkem SundayService Please n TO the banks. Please put out some water tanks for us customers. We get so thirsty when we are in long queues.n THE petrol service station convenience shops rip off customers. Their prices are at least 30 per cent above that of supermarkets. The GRN must protect the public against this daylight robbery.Taxing Times n TAX refund. How does this system work in our tax office because you find some members get refunds others not, while the deduction is equal. Please explain. – Worried TaxpayerLabour Issues n UNFAIR recruitment in the South. Let me view my point when it comes to us the youth in the south. We who schooled here are on the streets, but the youths coming from the central and northern parts are the ones who are employed in the mines here. So we will just remain on the streets of Lüderitz. What about us who schooled here in the south? Once we apply for employment in the north, there is no response to the application.n IS freedom of association only on paper? Why do Napwu and the Ministry of Finance not want nurses to resign from Napwu, claiming that there is a system that cannot be changed. Nanu increased the monthly contribution fee from N$20 to N$40 last year, but till now its only subsidised institutions such as Catholic Health Services who have implemented the Nanu directive, but the Ministry of Finance does not want to. Who is fooling who now? Are the nurses not included in section 6 of the Labour Act , Freedom of Association? – Concerned Nurse, Ongwedivan WHY do we not get to read The Namibian newspaper on Air Namibia? Flush Call! n CABINET directive to set up toilets? There are one too many of those nonsensical directives – pay N$38 million pension to ministers, what a directive! Angula is consulting us and we are responding to the Cabinet directive. Let us talk!Trophy Hunting n TOTALLY agree that we have seen enough trophy hunter photos in newspapers! How sad! Biggest leopard killed! Enough!Shebeens n THE Elcin Bishop should take his anti-alcohol crusade to the capital: 1. Picket at Nambrew factory to stop producing alcohol, 2. Advise NBC and newspapers to stop flighting alcohol-based adverts, 3. Advise Govt/municipalities to cancel or withdraw all liquor licences, 4. Advise Govt to outlaw importation of any alcohol, 5. Or Govt impose exorbitant sin taxes on alcohol. In doing this, he should present biblical proof that alcohol is the ultimate cause of sin in this society. Or have the bishops failed to lure people to go to church? – Dr Mn WE support our Bishop (Zephania) Kameeta, the clergymen and the community of Karasburg for their stance on illegal shebeens and their hours of operations. It should be clear that the call is for the control of illegal shebeens and not for legal ones. Those who are demonstrating are exercising their right like anything else. Please continue exercising your rights by demonstrating and don’t be intimidated. – From the SouthPolitics n OMUTHIYA. I don’t think the RDP lost the election because of intimidation. We had our party agents well in place. The fact that we involved NSHR in our campaign is costing us a lot. If we allow them to continue the same may happen in Tobias Hainyeko. Please take them out! Let us campaign ourselves.n THE Swapo Party Youth League scares me. I think that the young ones have a party of their own and they are hibernating behind the name of our party. Or else, if we can still call them by the name Swapo Party Youth League, then our party is deeply troubled and divided. It is really a painful to experience such things as the youth publicly questioning the Swapo Government programmes and agreements and Cabinet decisions through personalised attacks on individual ministers.n I AM glad that the SPYL has finally realised that the Swapo Party structures do not work very well. I am a bona fide Swapo member, but to be honest our structures are really good for nothing especially for us grassroots members!n CAN political leaders please mind their language when addressing their supporters? We are sick and tired of useless and bad language from the so-called leaders. Anyhow empty drums make a lot of noise. – Mattyn WILL the President of Namibia appoint the Deputy Minister of Safety and Security!Where To Etosha? n WERE Cde Nekundi and Cde Kapere born a day after the Millennium Compact was signed? As for the rest of us, we have been consulting with Regional and Local Authorities, Government Institutions, the Swapo Manifesto, the public and Cabinet Ministers to give life to the document that today the two comrades hold as evidence of corruption against the Minister of Works and Transport.n NOTHING is private in Government, that means public. Publish the MCA in the print media for everyone to get the facts and make decisions. It’s time all ministers retire now! – I agree that the facts need to be spelled out. It is incomprehensible that Government is allowing controversy and confusion over the Etosha issue to gather a head of steam through a lack of transparency. For now, the implications of the Compact are far from clear. Etosha is a national asset and Government should have offered a straightforward explanation from the outset. In short, either those details that are available are being misread, or the issue is being used as a political football, or there may be some truth to the claims. Until Government clarifies the matter, it is leaving the door wide open for speculation. – News Editorn OUR leaders’ greed will lead to our country’s downfall. Please ACC investigate this Etosha controversy. Grant for what? The Etosha Park is for our children and the generations to come. If money was embezzled, kickbacks and misrepresentation of facts were involved, then let the law take its course. We are tired of egocentric leaders who do not think further than their noses. n DO ministries implement national projects on their own without approval from the Cabinet? Are proposals not scrutinised by a relevant body before being implemented?n DETAILS are still sketchy at this stage, but this MCA-Etosha saga [allegedly] has the elements as detailed in th
e book, ‘Confessions of an Economic Hitman’. A must read for each and every citizen of the so-called developing countries, and especially their leaders.n HOW can Tobie (Aupindi) (NWR), appointed by Government, running a Government body, with Namibian taxpayers’ money, be answerable to foreigners (MCA)?n IF Swapo is always talking of collective decision why are they blaming Mr Helmut Angula alone instead of the whole GRN when it comes to the MCA agreement.n SPYL and Swapo seems to have the country’s priorities twisted. Why the big fuss about the Americans and Etosha, I am sure it would not have been such a big deal or a deal at all if it was the Chinese. After all they already took over the building industry and with it opportunities meant for Namibians and sadly this seems to be OK with SPYL and Swapo. Is that not hypocritical?In And From The Regions n THE village secretaries are in big trouble with the car allowance they get. There is no maintenance included in the allowance, whilst this is included for those in Government.n LEADERS of Omaheke when will you think of a vocational school in this region?n WHY does the Oshikoto Regional Council want to build the Oniipa constituency office far from the people? How will people reach that place as there is no taxi rank, water or electricity. Please consider the people.n ONGWEDIVA town planner please put the open road to the west of Better Housing Mweshipandeka.n ONDANGWA is seriously deteriorating: shebeens are allowed to be open 24 hours, noise pollution at night, the open market is a health hazard, unemployment getting worse. Town Council, politicians and civil servants please deliver or step down! Education n WHY is everybody concerned and complaining about teachers’ duties but not worrying about their salaries? Teachers are people like others! – Worried n IT is usual for all schools, where development funds are outstanding, to call upon learners to bring their parents top school to discuss these matters.Bouquets and Brickbats n CONGRATULATIONS to the Namibian Cricket team and women’s U-20 soccer team. You both did us proud. Keep up the good work.n THANK you very much NBC for showing us how Government houses are abused. Keep it up and it’s a good example for other towns to follow.General n WHAT does it help to put rubbish bins in the Namib Park if they are not emptied regularly? Rather set up signs urging people to take their refuse along. Around Kriess se Rus and Ganab, it’s plastic and bottles all over the desert. Shame.n SHAME on the Swapo Municipality of Windhoek, why are you changing street names at the cost of the ratepayers? Is it not better to use that money to pay water and electricity bills for those poor house owners who are evicted each day in Namibia? We were never evicted in South West Africa, comrades what are you doing with your own people? n PLEASE Help: GIPF. Some civil servants of the then government privatised their pensions in 1989 and others not. What happened to the pensions of those who didn’t privatise? – Concerned Servantn THE Windhoek Show was a disaster, it looked like a street market. Poor organisation, far fewer exhibitors than in all past years.n SOME of the fisheries inspectors’ supervisors are cheating with overtime. They claim high overtime every month, some of them pack their cars at the office and disappear. Some are seen in shebeens during working hours. Please ACC come and investigate.Nature’s Call n ROADSIDE toilets: Who will clean them? Who will secure them and prevent theft? Who will protect users against robbery and rape? Get real!n I FULLY agree with the comments of Desie Heita and Petronella of New Era that flushing toilets are indeed not needed in this day and time along national roads. They must first be built at Aus settlement where the ordinary person must still suffer with the bucket system. Karasburg and Otavi have been sorted out. Why not consider Aus and the other towns.Matters Of Belief n IT’S clear (Veronica) de Klerk (of Women’s Action for Development) is ignorant about black African culture. She must stop calling our trusted and dependable traditional doctors by a derogatory term “witchdoctors”. Even medical doctors make fatal errors on the operation table. Also the western world relies on their traditional doctors known as magicians!n WHY must people go to witchdoctors, instead of going to church and believing in God for help. I am appealing to Government to stop these acts. Churches should also stand up and do something. Even people who say they go to church also visit witchdoctors and some pastors too. Government and spiritual leaders should do something fast. God bless our nation. – Pastor Nkem SundayService Please n TO the banks. Please put out some water tanks for us customers. We get so thirsty when we are in long queues.n THE petrol service station convenience shops rip off customers. Their prices are at least 30 per cent above that of supermarkets. The GRN must protect the public against this daylight robbery.Taxing Times n TAX refund. How does this system work in our tax office because you find some members get refunds others not, while the deduction is equal. Please explain. – Worried TaxpayerLabour Issues n UNFAIR recruitment in the South. Let me view my point when it comes to us the youth in the south. We who schooled here are on the streets, but the youths coming from the central and northern parts are the ones who are employed in the mines here. So we will just remain on the streets of Lüderitz. What about us who schooled here in the south? Once we apply for employment in the north, there is no response to the application.n IS freedom of association only on paper? Why do Napwu and the Ministry of Finance not want nurses to resign from Napwu, claiming that there is a system that cannot be changed. Nanu increased the monthly contribution fee from N$20 to N$40 last year, but till now its only subsidised institutions such as Catholic Health Services who have implemented the Nanu directive, but the Ministry of Finance does not want to. Who is fooling who now? Are the nurses not included in section 6 of the Labour Act , Freedom of Association? – Concerned Nurse, Ongwediva