SMSes for Thursday 28 July 2011

SMS Of The Day
*THE Ministry of Health has to see the urgency of having to replace the radiation machines used to treat cancer patients in Namibia. It is inexcusable that cancer patients cannot receive treatment due to their inefficiency. The breaking down of these machines is an old story and it will carry on if something is not done now! Cancer patients will die.
– A cancer patient.

Food for Thought*AM I correct when saying the N$1.2 billion bailout for Air Namibia will cost every man, woman and child in this country N$600? This is enough to fund BIG for six years. How many employees does Air Namibia have?Bouquets and BrickbatsPrime Minister Nahas AngulaTHANKS Citizen Nahas. Your opinion piece is indeed stimulating.*I AM so proud of the collaboration between the City Police and Nampol this past weekend. They patrolled all over to keep law and order and did a great job. Keep it up guys! * I FOUND it totally disturbing that parents would attack a teacher for their indisciplined child. I am not a teacher but I think the fact that a child is beaten by a teacher is supposed to be a warning signal to parents to consult with school as to what is wrong with their child. Instead they opted for an attack. This situation threatens the existence of the teaching profession and the law shall give sufficient punishment.*WHO is a true Namibian? Hengari can be a good ambassador for Paris. Not for Namibia at all! He is gone. Just like many others.*TYSON/Hengari: Now I see that the Namibian people only react to something, they are never proactive. Thank you Hengari for waking up the Namibians. I know that was your intention and no one can question your loyalty and patriotism to Namibia. I hope they will now appreciate what they have more than before and protect what they have, Windhoek, so that it does not go down the drain though corrupt Namibians.*ROBIN Tyson I would really love to thank you for expressing your emotions the way you did in Tuesday’s paper. What you stated is really true and I support you fully. We should avoid people like Hengari who tend to look down on our own motherland and Windhoek in particular. – Razikua KauraClear skies over Paris*WELL done Tyson. By the way is the sky over Paris clear and the air cleaner then Windhoek?*ALAS there’s one thing where Windhoek cannot match Europe and that’s service. I have travelled the world and Namibian service is the grim nadir with staff behaving as if their paid job entails doing the customer a massive favour. Yes Windhoek has its charms Robin Tyson but good manners and prompt or happy willing service are not included. Running the Show*WHY are CEOs of parastatals being paid performance bonuses while the companies are asking for bail outs with taxpayers’ monies?Power to the People*AN 18.2% electricity tariff price hike! Mr S Simasiku at a media briefing you said that NamPower is going to use the revenue for future projects and rehabilitation, but nothing was said about the termination dates or time frame where we the citizens get to reap the rewards on our investments. You’re too vague and clearly haven’t worked on the details. We need accountability.- V ColmanCity Fathers Please…*CAN the City of Windhoek please help? In in Omuaha Street people buy sugarcane and eat it on the way to their location and mess up our street. Surely we are also entitled to a clean environment. – Concerned resident, JJIn and From the Regions*STATION Commander of Otjiwarongo please close the clubs and bars at 24h00. The crime is high and the music is disturbing us. Some clubs are close to our houses and we cannot sleep because they play their music too loud.*OTJIWARONGO Home Affairs and Immigration staff must be trained to work with customers. Not everyone who comes there can read and write. Except for two ladies, it seems that most the staff don’t know their work. *TO the lawmakers, the Government please explain how it happened that Kronlein, one of the first residential areas that forms part of the town of Keetmanshoop, falls under Aroab Rural Constituency? Keetmanshoop is a town and Aroab a village 170 km away under a village council. Does it make sense?- Neville Plaatjies, KeetmanshoopGeneralMuch help needed*WHAT is Namibia doing to help drought-ravaged Somalia? It was fast to give US1 million to Japan (am not against that). MTC please create an SMS donation line.- Lady AnnEducation*NAMIBIAN people let us wake up. If a teacher does not want to be approached by the Minister, why disappear from work without proper leave? Parents are paying fees for their kids to be educated and not for what some lazy teachers are doing. Dr Iyambo you did well by assessing the situation on the ground.Health Matters*CAN our Minister of Health help Outjo Hospital with a generator? If the electricity goes off patients are left in the dark. If there is an emergency and a patient needs oxygen, there is no way they can wait 8 or 9 hours till the power comes on.*MR. Kamwi what’s going on with your ministry? First the oxygen now cobalt-60. There is lot of corruption at the ministry. What will be next? *WHAT a shame! The Ministry of Health doesn’t have the materials to provide patients with false teeth, especially at Katutura State Hospital. Labour Issues*EVERY now and then we hear the unemployment rate in Namibia is 51.2% but lawmakers just turn a blind eye. I think lawmaker must revisit the different companies’ and Government’s constitutions and policies, so that it must be compulsory for 60 to be the retirement age for every Namibia. Then we can minimise the unemployment rate.- J Kangameni, KaribibNBC*WE have not watched NBC in Outapi since Tuesday. Madam Helena Shiimbi, please dispatch your team of technicians to Outapi to verify the problem.Sporting*OUR local football is in dire need of strategic direction with the well documented age cheating clearly showing us that the association is allowing this to happen. If you have proof of players and you are actually selecting them for youth teams and telling the nation there is nothing you can do, something is truly lacking in our leadership. Why do they simply not go to schools where the selected players started their schooling? The one thing that Namibians are renowned for is at least more than 65 per cent start school.Service PleaseAn eye on the time*JUST wondering what time Katutura Post Office opens? Cleaner is busy cleaning and clients waiting at the entrance. Time is 08h30. No sign or board displaying office hours.* CAN Nampost furnish the number where complaints can be formally voiced? I have a burning issue I want to take up formally and through the right channels.*FIRST National Bank. How can we abuse you? Early in the morning of July 27 I was woken up by a message on my cell. Twas FNB reminding me that my Visa Electron Card expires next month, August, and I should walk into any branch to renew it. After reporting at work I went to my branch, Windhoek Main. There, after standing in a queue for more than an hour, I was told that I was too early and if they were to renew my card then I would be charged a fee because I was only supposed to come in August. Why didn’t they remind me in August? Why should they send me an early morning message if it was not that urgent? I feel abused and I wasted my precious time in that queue! – PinehasLost and Found*MR D Durand I found your ID, driving licence and other cards in the streets of Okahandja. Please contact 081-409-6910 or 081-728-8119.*I, IVOR Beukes lost my black and white Quicksilver wallet with all my cards in a Windhoek Taxi on Friday 22 July between Ausspannplatz and Dorado valley. If anyone found it please call 081-343-9477.