SMSes For Thur 04 june 09

* I’VE lived in Cape Town and Jo’burg, where there’s much more traffic and cars, but somehow accidents are few and far between. Windhoek has the most impatient, reckless drivers I’ve seen! And please, can the traffic or roads authority please place three-phase arrows at all major intersections! Windhoek is growing and so is the traffic!

HI to you all. Let us focus on reading books. When we are reading, we don’t have time to become a criminal.- Izmaery, Otamanzi, Ongandjera- Thanks very much Izmaery. There are so many positive spinoffs from reading books. Keep it going, and pass it on. – News Editor
Food for ThoughtOur national symbol of unity* THE leaders of Namibia must forgive and forget what colonisers did. And stop poisoning our children’s minds. Didn’t we adopt a policy of National Reconciliation?* AFRICAN leaders must come to realise that the biggest challenge faced by the continent is poverty and they must concentrate more on addressing it rather than to waste time talking of colonisation which ended a long time back. Most of our people in Africa are living under poverty being ruled by rich leaders who pay little attention to their poverty.- Baloyi
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* ROADSIDE toilets? Who will supply toilet paper and clean them after every use? Or is this April Fool’s or election campaigning?* ROADSIDE toilets are a ridiculous idea. Who will clean them? It will be another opportunity for thieves to waylay people. If running water is provided, within a month you will have informal settlements going up alongside the toilets. Who thinks up these crazy ideas? How about an education programme teaching people to use toilets at garages rather than using the side of the road. The money meant to be spent on roadside toilets can be given to the service station owners to help pay for cleaning of their toilets. Thanks. – Ruby, WindhoekPolitics* WHO is in charge at the Council of Churches (CCN) now? How can the church keep quiet when our right of religious freedom is being violated by the Founding President?* WHY is The Namibian always finding fault with the Founding Father. How about also putting in your headlines the positive remarks he made. We want to build the nation and not dwell on unimportant things. Please stop humiliating the Founding Father and don’t distort the truth by quoting him on negative remarks only. So please ‘tell it like it is’ and I mean the whole truth and not parts of it …* HEY! The Namibian, are you sure your report in Wednesday’s paper about Former President Sam Nujoma is correct? I don’t know whether to be amused, confused or stupefied by our Founding Father’s utterances. A couple of years ago, he was reported to have invited other African foreigners to come and settle in Namibia because the country is too vast for Namibians alone to inhabit. Yet a couple of weeks ago, he ranted against all those foreigners and even threatened them with bullets in their heads. And when his own party’s government is incompetently incapable of providing jobs and education for a few hundred so-called struggle ‘adult kids’, let alone all the unemployed youths in Namibia, he now goes to implore kids in secondary school to make babies just to fill the vast barren land. For God’s sake, are there no serious and courageous elders in our land who can advise this tatekulu to stop embarrassing and ridiculing both himself and this dear country of ours? I know as usual the blind and unthinkable sycophants will unhesitatingly rise to his defence to justify his utterances.* HOW could our former President Sam Nujoma advise learners to have children while we are struggling with an unsolved unemployment problem, street kids and the struggle orphans. What about the frequent dumping of babies? Or was he joking? * WHY is (Founding President) Sam Nujoma telling people to have kids when unemployment is so high? * GWEN Lister you seem to have something against the Founding Father, you condemn his statements but hail the cartoons insulting him in your newspaper. You are a real hypocrite that you do not see the insults on a former President as bad enough but every patriotic and brave statement he makes about former colonialists, you are quick to denounce. If the shoe fits you just put it on but leave our Father alone. * IN response to the text of Mr Jomo dated June 1, stop judging Gwen. Go back to school and read your history. She is one of the few ‘white’ people who fought for our Independence through that ‘small house’ that produces the same paper you read and text to every day. What have you done for the Land of the Brave? * I WROTE something about the former President yesterday, but it was not reflected in your newspaper. Why is it? Because I emphasise his reputation to be respected. I know it irritates some readers when we protect the Founding Father. Please leave out the double standards.- Patriotic one- We receive more messages than we can include each day and publish a selection of those received. If you are a regular reader of the newspaper and the SMS page you will have noticed that there have been reports which both praise and are critical of the Founding Father, likewise with the SMSes. – Newsdesk
* NAMIBIA needs an effective, well managed and stridently independent broadcaster, unlike the NBC which has became a Swapo party mouthpiece at taxpayers’ expense.- KamatiBouquetsAnd BrickbatsThe Polytechnic of Namibia* I AM a matric student who attended the careers exhibition at Swakopmund and was very disappointed by the Polytech stand. The people there weren’t very friendly and seemed annoyed at our questions regarding the institution. Is that how marketing is supposed to be done? Unam thank you for an excellent presentation. * CREDIT should be given to those who deserve it! I’m congratulating the NSHR team for the discovery of election ballot boxes in one of the strongrooms in a Police station in Windhoek which were left there since 2007. Thank you very much. Keep it up comrades. Never tolerate corruption.- Julia* ELECTORAL Commission of Namibia, please give your assistant voter education officers in their constituencies transport or transport money, like you promised, or the whole voter education process will fail. – Unhappy voter education officersNBC* NBC TV wake up, we are your customers. Your customer service is up to nuts. Why do you not inform us your customers of changes in your evening programme? Many of us only switch on for a specific programme just to find out that one is too early or too late for today, please let us know the day before.* PURE distraction is how I would describe NBC TV’s news set-up. The background illustration of how hard Menesia and company are working is unnecessary. I couldn’t focus, and the reader looked like he was sitting on a kiddie’s chair. * OSHIWAMBO Radio, you waste time after the 19h00 news. Why can’t you use this time for Open Line (ewilyamanguluka) so that it will start at 19h30 or after the news * I THINK ‘School Grounds’ should stay.- Dolly* I’M really sorry NBC TV. For the past two years we haven’t used our TV sets. They are becoming white elephants because we do not have any signal. We inform the office at Keetmans and phone your head office. But up to today we are still waiting for signal. Maybe we may get it the day you stop changing your MD.- Disappointed Tses member* WHAT is the need for the NBC to show their flat screen during the 20h00 news?Overloaded?
* I SUGGEST the high accident rate over the month end was because of a lack of attention to bad driving practices. Drivers do whatever they like, go through red lights, stop anywhere and everywhere, and generally disregard traffic rules. It is then inevitable that when traffic increases at month-end disaster and chaos are the result – what else does the Traffic Department expect?In And Fromthe Regions
* FUNNY that 19 years after Independence, Omaheke Region’s share of the cake is less than 50 km of tarred road (Gobabis – Drimiopsis). I want to hear GRN’s explanation on this. * MR Fluksman, CEO of Lüderitz. Do you still remember what you were telling people about phase two of the waterfront? May has passed now and when will the project start? Thanks.* WHAT is going on with the Ministry of Local Government in Okahandja? The electricity seems to have been cut off since January due to unpaid bills. Telephones and computers, another story. How can a Government Ministry operate like this? * RUNDU main Pep Stores, we are under threat at your shop entrance. There are street boys who are pick-pocketing and stealing people’s property and money. The guy at the door knows these boys. It’s very painful to see parents and villagers fall victims to them. I would sincerely like to urge Pep Stores management and the Rundu Police to sweep out these boys. Please do something for the love of the community. Look at OK Foods the entrance is clean, they know those boys and chase them out of their shop. Why not Pep? This is serious!- SJK* THE writer of the SMS on the most economic roads not tarred is right in my opinion. Because the Tsumeb-Katwitwi road will just put most of the northern towns at a disadvantage, and the benefits will all be for South Africa who want to get their trucks faster to Cabinda/Lunda Norte Provinces and through to the DRC there by rendering the Northern Railway useless on which we spend so many millions. Why can’t those trucks use the existing corridors? No wonder consultants for the project were South Africans.Health* DEAR Community Counsellor, unfortunately you stooped too low! With your social responsibility you’d not have said what you said to the writer.- SympathiserGeneral* WHAT’S the difference between recession and depression?- Makutsi- A recession happens when the gross domestic product (GDP) (all the goods and services produced in a year) of a country registers two consecutive terms of negative growth. A depression simply means a drawn-out period of negative economic growth, or a recession lasting for more than three years like the Great Depression, which lasted from 1929 to 1933. – Newsdesk