SMSes For Thur 23 july 09

* I AM so pleased to see so many SMSES of appreciation for this or that. Thumbs up for those who care to give credit where and when it is due.

Food For Thought* A DEMOCRATIC request to the Minister of Education: will you please implement the Namibian Constitution as a subject on its own at school, starting from Grade 5. Because Namibian people lack a reading culture and are well known for ignorance, which has resulted in them not knowing their own Constitution. We are the future presidents, ministers, lawyers and judges. Help us to lead our nation on the correct track. We will understand political pluralism better and tolerate each other when it comes to political diversity, and will not call Namibians ‘puppets’, imperialists’, terrorists’ for forming a political party apart from yours.- UDF Youth League, Publicity & Information Officer* CAN somebody please tell me why some products produced in Namibia are so expensive and we are really trying hard to buy Namibian.Copping It* TO those Policemen searching the school bag of a young boy, gentleman you must feel ashamed of yourselves. Very very ashamed.* POLICEMAN searching a young boy’s bag just shows the Namibian Police totally lack discretion. BouquetsAnd Brickbats* CONGRATULATIONS Hon [Erkki] Nghimtina on his bundles of joy, but what comes to mind is: if our own leaders have no faith in our own public institutions (hospitals) who are we, the public, to do the same. Leaders please lead by example! – Concerned citizen* THANKS our newspaper for the two articles of Christof Maletsky of Wednesday and Mr [Alexactus] T Kaure of Friday. That’s the reality on the ground. People open up your eyes.- Brian* I KNOW you won’t print this, but whether Christof Maletsky likes it or not, the Swapo Party cannot be separated from Cuba/Russia due to the liberation struggle. We won’t wear our colours if Bush/Blair comes to Namibia.* MALETSKY, is there a law in Namibia preventing party functionaries of any party from wearing their colours at official events such as at the arrival of the Cuban leader?* CONGRATULATIONS Tate D J Sheya. For coming first in the whole region. Well done father, you are the best.- Your daughter in Windhoek * OMBUDSMAN’S Office, please also conclude labour cases just as much as you pay attention to prisoners. There is no other institution we can go to or that checks on you! * NBC has longer news time now but not more news. That’s pure boredom.Politics* HELLO Namibia. I am Robert Ameb from Otjiwarongo and I am a Swapo member. I only want to tell all the Swapo members to leave RDP members alone please. Let’s do it our way. I know Swapo will win, we can do this. Let’s fight for peace to make Namibia a free and happy living place. Please. Please.Trade Minister Hage Geingob* DR Geingob, you are such an ace in your work. Last week your ministry had an open day, excellent! Politics …? As party vice president watch those close to you. They are tarnishing your image. You are telling the nation that Swapo is tolerant of other parties, but your regional co-ordinator is saying don’t buy from their shops! Who is fooling who here? Be vigilant comrade, those allies of yours may fail your return to politics again!- AgarobWho’s Shopping Who?* IT must have been very embarrassing for the Minister of Trade Hage Geingob to hear Armas Amukwiyu tell the crowd at the Swapo rally not to buy at the business of Holiday Inn and Onambango Stores as the owner doesn’t support Swapo. So Swapo is now helping to kill other Namibian’s businesses. And why is it that it is always the northern businesses which are always mentioned, not those in Windhoek or elsewhere, even on radio? – JD Hatutale* DR Hage Geingob, vice president of Swapo, and in his capacity as Minister of Trade and Industry, was present at the meeting where Amukwiyu urged Swapo members not to buy at RDP supporter`s shops. Does he condone, condemn or support the remarks? Just his comment please.* THE remarks made by Armas Amukwiyu at a Swapo campaign rally at Onethindi over the weekend, that Swapo supporters not buy from RDP sympathisers’ shops, is economical sabotage. (President Hifikepunye) Pohamba and (Founding President Sam) Nujoma apprehend Amukwiyu.* I AM a Swapo member and supporter. I read The Namibian of July 20 where Mr Amukwiyu said we must stop buying from the shops of RDP supporters, we must buy at Mini’s and Fysal, but the owners of those shops are not Swapo supporters. They must not mix business with politics please. We must wait for elections.Health Matters* A 28-YEAR-OLD old woman with H1N1 from Europe? Where exactly? France, Germany or Britain? Why hide that country?* THE second round of the annual vaccination campaign of polio drops and vitamin A supplements in Kavango Region will be a disaster without hired vehicles. Minister Kamwi where is Mr Mukena who used to organise cars for this campaign in this region? And Justice For All* WHAT happened to innocent until proven guilty? Jealousy is an evil thing. Leave Teko trading to the courts!Running The Show* IF the President really cares for the people, then he should rather use the amount to be spent on his jet and put it to good use on education, health and so on.- Firewatch, Walvis Bay* NO proper SWOT analysis was done on the locomotive deal, the question now is was one done on the credit lines with the Bank of China?DisconnectionsAnybody listening in?* THESE guys are tapping our phones, why is it that there is sound interference while the phone is ringing.* HELLO Namibia! Please be aware, should you get a missed call from the following number please don’t follow it up, it’s a money-making scam. The number is +393193260011. I found a missed call on my phone but the number looked so unfamiliar I looked it up on the Internet and I found a list of numbers involved in the telemarket scam and that number is part of it. They make money through the high call charges. – From a caring NamibianGeneral* EUROPE plans to harvest solar power in North Africa for export via underwater (Mediterranean) cables to destinations on that continent. What about us Africans who are sitting on the pot of gold?* PARENTS, educate your children. Teachers have already made something of their lives. Every person makes their own decisions. Children should be guided in theirs.* WHEN will Natis implement the written system in Windhoek for the learner’s licence? Awaiting their swift response.- Die Büchter* KINDLY deposit all your old newspapers at the NNFU office Windhoek Contact Mr BA Pieters at 081-279-7709 please. We can put it to good use.City Fathers Please …* PLEASE City of Windhoek and Gammans Watercare Works, the smoke from burning human waste is affecting me and my family. Please stop it. It’s been since last year. We we can’t sleep at night when they burn that human waste. The smoke doesn’t smell good at all. Please let’s work on that issue.- Herman* SERIOUSLY the people who tabled the city budget are out of their minds. N$1.4 million for entertainment. Why can’t they contribute that on their own? * CITY of Windhoek, why can’t you supply us with services such as water, toilets, electricity here at Havana? We also want to eat the fruit of Independence like others. Please we need help from you.- Ndalulilwa* CITY of Windhoek, please do us a favour and rename Florence Nightingale Street Hifikepunye Pohamba and Shanghai Street Matheus Shikongo.- Baloyi* DRINKING in public and even dagga is being smoked in Garnet Street. Do something please City Police. We are also ratepayers.In And FromThe Regions* IN rural schools, male and female teachers share a two-bedroom compound, toilet and shower. Society, is this normal? Poor man. * I WOULD like to congratulate the residents of Hoachanas in their attempts to say enough is enough to shebeens and bottle stores and the latest addition of a bottle store by a businessman from Stampriet. I want to tell this man that he is trying to kill our youth as we want to be scientists and doctors and he should not be allowed to get away with this. I propose he go and open his bottle store at his backyard in Stampriet. What nation do we build with a lot of shebeens and bottle stores while unemployment is so high? – MC Kooper, Windhoek* THIS is a plea to the Minister of Fisheries to please do something about the aquarium at Swakopmund. The place is a wonderful place to visit, but the building is now too dirty inside and outside and it is visited by people from all over the world* AN effective audit of performance and service delivery of individual councillors and executive officers, as well as local councils and village councils, will ensure quality services and subsequent development at municipalities and village councils.* WHAT is delaying the implementation of salary incentives for teachers in rural areas? Until when? Please Nantu and Ministry of Education. Poor man.