SMSes for Thursday 24 June 2010

* SOCCER truly unites people from all walks of life. Even a car guard and I had a chat about it!

Food for Thought* IF children born by those who were studying and fighting abroad are ‘struggle kids’ then we who are of those who fought inside, whose houses were burnt and took care of Plan soldiers, are ‘children of this country’. Experiences of war are the same. Bouquets and Brickbats* NATIS in Tal Street, your service is tops. Keep it up. – David Viviers.* THANK you very much Iris at MTC Call Centre. You made my day. You are a star!* THE ‘Discourse of Failed kidneys’ article by Pancho Mulongeni is brilliant, well written and informative. We need this level of journalism or writing in this country. I would not normally read about kidney failure; but I did because the article is well researched; the style enjoyable and the language accessible and gives real examples. I don’t know if the writer is studying medicine or journalism. Whatever it is, he is very good and hopefully we can read more of his writing.* CONGRATULATIONS to Namibia’s National Rugby Team for being the international rugby champions. The world has a new IRB winner – Namibia’s Welwitschias. Namibia is proud of you.* IF advertisements of schools have grammatical and punctuation mistakes, it’s no surprise our children’s school work is of low standard!* GO Welwitschias go, show and raise the Namibian flag higher and higher. You did well at the IRB Nations Cup.- Rugby fan Sam Shambuila. * OUR rugby team won the IRB Nations Cup, yet their success featured only page 29 in Tuesday’s edition. So what about recognition!* NAMIBIAN rugby team winning the IRB nations cup deserve at least a front page headline! Some newspapers did not even report it. These boys play as volunteers and practise part time; and by playing from the heart they put our nation on the map but our media doesn’t even give them credit- Cobus* DAVID Villa, thank you so much for missing that penalty. You are one of the greats, but a very dirty player!* I WILL say it again and again that Diego Armando Maradona will make history and lift the World Cup 2010 without coaching experience. I can’t wait to see Argentinia vs Brazil in the final. We will beat them 3 – 0.* WHO selects the NBC soccer panelists because I am not happy with comments made about Bafana Bafana by Wesley Vries and his colleagues. Guys your job there is to analyse matches and please refrain from destructive comments. Bafana Bafana is hosting the World Cup but our country is nowhere near. We should hear from Supersport analysts. – MC Kooper* WHAT’S wrong with the refs in the World Cup? They are killing the game of football with ludicrous fouls and cards. How can we enjoy football with an uneven number of players on the pitch. It is unfair. Come on, let the ball do the talking.- WillsFrom the House* MR U Nujoma stop being so inconsiderate please! What is so cheap about making a point on expensive public transport fees? We the citizens are suffering but you have the guards to even smile in our face. Get serious man!* I AM a full Swapo member but sometimes our Swapo MPs must think. Please Hon Nahas (Angula) and Utoni (Nujoma). Shixwameni is APP but he is talking the truth. Think about those who put you where you are today. We are not going to stand in line for you to enrich yourselves only, please do something about the poor. – ‘Veteran’* SWAPO MPs must not always resort to cheap politics whenever opposition debates are based on true facts and good points. Rather tell what’s planned to be implemented, and think outside of the box. It’s not all about politics or who must stay in power Mr Utoni (Nujoma).* I AM a Swapo member but I think it a shame that Comrade Utoni Nujoma made such cheap, and not relevant, political points against Mr (Ignatius) Shixwameni. It shows he doesn’t care about other people’s social wellbeing. People are suffering and the same people vote for him to be in Parliament. It makes people wonder does he even deserve the post. Move on from cheap politics. We all fought for Independence. * IT was so pathetic to see Minister Utoni Nujoma trying to shoot down the proposal which was made by I Shixwameni about decent housing for the poor. – M.* MR Utoni Nujoma the USA has more than 100 million people, Namibia has one million adult people or a little bit more, but the Government can’t provide proper shelter for us. The APP leader is right. Leave those first world countries when it comes to comparisons. * NO, Utoni please, if it took the US 300 years, France 200, what are you doing at Ludwigsdorf or wherever you have your house? Why didn’t you come and stay with us in shacks? Why didn’t you wait for 300 years to reject Volvos? Please be realistic, we are in poverty. – Disappointed ex-combatant * THE Speaker of the NA may not dictate Swapo MPs to forget the past; he must know that the past is our foundation of the present and future.- NMSPolitics* IS it again Hage Geingob running for President? Didn’t he learn from trying to unseat H Witbooi as Vice President. Geingob and peers must retire – we thank them for freedom but they don’t have the energy and woema for the next phase of the struggle. They must rest.Education* CES at Unam is full of queues of students querying lost/misplaced assignments. Please find a lasting solution!Health Matters* DR (Richard) Kamwi it is good to hear that 97 per cent of children born from HIV positive mothers are negative. This is simply because we have community counsellors in place. Let us start paying the counsellors what they deserve. They are being used in all the hospitals.In and From the Regions* CAN’T the village council of Tses do something about the electricity because it is switching on and off every 30 minutes throughout the day. We are afraid one of these days our electric appliances will burn out and and who will pay for the damage?* DRUGS are moving freely around Luderitz. More youth are starting to experiment with dagga and rocks. Please our Luderitz-based Police Force come out of the station. We want to see you regularly searching the wellknown drug dealers.- From Shuuveni, Herman, Daniel. City Fathers Please…* WHEN will the Municipality tar the roads of Otjimuise? It’s been more than 6 years.* NOW that we have to cough up more for Municipal services we experience power cuts almost every evening. We are not able to follow our daily programmes and the World Cup. City of Windhoek you are failing us.Education* IF Unam students cheat on their hostel conditions of occupation, how many cheat in their exams?Service Please* ERONGO Red Walvis Bay there is hardly ever electricity available to buy at Woermann Brock and BP, especially on weekends. And fix the machine at the municipality so that we can otherwise buy there.We need better service.* MTC, why do we need credit to send a call-me request? This sort of negates the whole point!* MULTICHOICE it is very bad business manners not to reply to e-mails sent to you by your customers (who actually pay your salary). From a dissatisfied and frustrated dstv HDPVR customerACC Alert* ACC please publish the contact number of your representative in Walvis Bay. We want to assist the Government by fighting corruption!
Power to the People* WHEN will NamPower tell the country that the high increase was to cover the additional U$10 million they invested and lost in Hwange. I almost fell off my chair laughing when the MD announced their so-called profit.Sporting* ABOUT African soccer referees. More than a year ago Fifa called for applicants to sit computer based exams testing their world cup standard in depth knowledge of the game. Many from different nations did not make the grade, although African refs were appointed to CAN. Responses to recent SMSes* IN response to the SMS that appeared on Thursday, June 17. Reference was made to the mistakes in the learners` assignments in mathematics, biology and physical science. Namcol uses qualified, full-time teachers from secondary schools around the country to set assignments. We have quality assurance mechanisms in place to make sure that assignments are of a good standard and quality, but we are not ignorant of the fact that some shortcomings might exist. Surprisingly enough, this was the first time that we were alerted about the quality gaps in these particular assignments. The College appreciates constructive criticism since this enables us to sharpen the saw. * TO the potential rapist that can’t control himself when he sees ads, you need help.* THE mother is telling the truth. I was also left by myself while the nurses sat there doing their hair and make up. As it was my first delivery I had no idea as to what I was supposed to do, but I got no assistance from any nurse.