SMSes for Tue 14 Apr 09

* IF Swapo wants only Swapo members in the civil service, then only Swapo members in Namibia should pay taxes.
 * WE the flood victims cry for food, GRN asks for international assistance while at the same time it rejects food supplies from the World Food Programme saying it needs funds instead to feed the flood victims.

* IF Swapo wants only Swapo members in the civil service, then only Swapo members in Namibia should pay taxes.
* WE the flood victims cry for food, GRN asks for international assistance while at the same time it rejects food supplies from the World Food Programme saying it needs funds instead to feed the flood victims. Don’t we know that the GRN is going to waste that money if the humanitarian agencies assist with funds? GRN please ask for food aid among other needs instead of money. The USA assisted with N$5 million to NRCS for the flood victims. Let’s wait and see. – Flood victim

Food For Thought
* IT’S quite shameful to learn how many millions of dollars (N$1,5 million) are being spent on S&T in Namibia daily. Why should we be obliged to pay huge taxes if this is how the haves treat our money? Reduce the practice to enable the Namibian economy to last a bit longer instead of ruining it this way. Please accept my advice!

Politics
* An SMS on President Obama on Friday refers. If you are a Namibian and political parties in Namibia mean nothing to you because your President is Obama, you live in delusion. Namibian political parties and leaders have direct impact on you whether you like it or not. Maybe you mean Obama is your role model, which seems more logical. – Maybe the writer is an American living in Namibia? – Newsdesk
* HOW can Minister Jerry Ekandjo prolong the term of the Keetmans Town Council that does not deliver any progress at this town. They think nothing of the taxpayers or the municipal workers. Elections now please!
* WE older Namibians (50 plus) would like to see Swapo govern this country till we are no more. But we don’t want the Party to have a 2/3 or filibuster proof majority, as this leads to arrogance and loss of focus. For the first time in my voting life I will spoil my vote.
* WE Namibians are tired of empty rhetoric and lack of accountability coupled with unacceptably low levels of service delivery for over 19 years now. – Kamati

Old Soldiers
* HON Minister of War Veterans, we respect the contribution made by our brothers and sisters. They are suffering, you’ve been enjoying the fruits of Independence since 1990. Please don’t threaten people with reality. If it’s difficult, resign. They are adults. Don’t divide. Swapo is for all!
* I JUST want to say something about the problem of war veterans. I see this issue will bring a very big problem if we do not solve their problems in time. I am here with high respect to request the Father of the Nation (President Sam Nujoma) and the current President (Hifikepunye Pohamba) to stand up and talk to the ex-fighters because they are their problems. Please, we need peace we do not need war in this country. – Elayii Olamwene Iita.

Bouquets And Brickbats
* THE Namibian is of high quality in terms of news and reports. However your headline on April 9 left me with lots of doubts about whether you are serious about quality. A guy gets out of prison after a sentence for culpable homicide. The Namibian splashes a headline portraying a released convict as a boy wonder. Did you even think how the families of the dead tourists feel when they read your headline? Your article was totally in bad taste and insensitive. I am no journalist but I would have put that article at the back page. Otherwise keep up the good work. – Sir Geoff – It was not our intention to portray Harry Simon as a ‘boy wonder’! Not at all. It was intended to be an exclamation. We hold no special brief for Simon. – News Editor
* (HARRY) Simon is not a free man! He will be free when he finds the strength to reverse his attitudes, become humble and modest, learn how to drive a car without taking the risk of putting others in danger and devote the rest of his life to compensate all victims of his previous behaviour. – Fellow man.
* WELL done to the Municipality of Walvis Bay for tarring the road to Tutaleni.
* WELL done to the man in uniform who responded to our cry for help at Ehawalo Uupindi. Keep it up sons and daughters of our soil!
* GWEN Lister is Namibia’s best. She promotes one nation by bringing all the regions together. Politicians are selfish. They have failed. The Namibian Newspaper Cup is the best.
* THANK you Ms Gwen Lister for The Namibian soccer tournament. We know the newspaper is banned by the GRN, but the ministers and all GRN officials can’t live without reading The Namibian newspaper. – Pius
* HATS off to The Namibian. You kept a lot of people out of the streets this Easter weekend, especially in Windhoek. It was also clear that many people love soccer. – Ndeshi-pewa
* THE Namibian, four days without reading your paper is like going for four hours without oxygen. Please have a sister paper which keeps on updating us on Sundays and public holidays. – PDS
* I URGE all Namibians to buy The Namibian newspaper. We were entertained freely for the Easter weekend. Not even the GRN can do that. That’s great giving back to the public to the maximum.
* ON a weekend when ‘Christians’ are commemorating the death and resurrection of Jesus, the NBC deems it necessary to play things that portray the opposite of what Christ came for. God created Adam & Eve and not Adam & Steve! Two men kissing? Let’s honour the Lord if we are truly Christian!

General
* WINTER time is here. This is the real time for Namibia.
* YOU won’t believe this but on the Government’s annual orphans and vulnerable children forms, teachers are told to classify children with one deceased parent as orphans.
* IN March there was an article in The Weekender about the Goth subculture and they interviewed a few Goth people in Namibia. Can they or any Goth person please contact me: 081-302-4932.
* I KNOW NBC puts their schedule in the newspaper, but when can I watch the likes of Hitman & Ali on TV?
* WHY is it only that Mariental Prison and Walvis Bay Prison have released prisoners with a presidential amnesty? What is wrong with Windhoek Central Prison? And the president gave notice to all prisons in Namibia but what about the Windhoek Central Prison? – Windhoek Central prisoner
* THE artists in Namibia are not part of those who benefit from our country’s Independence. Government resources don’t filter through to the masses. The previously advantaged are still controlling and benefiting from the resources. Only some artists are benefiting from resources, workshops and international trips. – An oppressed and frustrated artist

City Fathers Please
* PLEASE City of Windhoek, you are doing a good job but failing us by allowing botsotsos to hang around the streets pretending to look for jobs yet watching soft targets to rob and break into homes. Women and children are regular targets in Pionierspark’s Riverside. Yesterday two girls and a boy were robbed of their phones by two boys at knifepoint. Remove these so-called job seekers from our streets please.

Education
* I’M a concerned civil servant and very much dissatisfied with the performance of the Ministry of Education regarding the dissemination of ministerial information to its employees regarding personnel’s personal information on the pay structure i.e. how each individual is going to be paid. We really want to see this in black on white soon.
* MR Toivo Mvula, when are all the school principals (primary, combined and senior secondary) going to be paid on the same scale as approved by the Prime Minister’s office ?
* HONOURABLE Nangolo Mbumba, the nation is crying over the due date for the examination fees for Grade 10 and 12. Please extend it even up to July when the poor will have something.
* THE good thing: the Government has converted some junior secondary schools to senior secondary schools by giving them Grade 11 and 12 respe
ctively. But, learners’ education is hampered by many factors, e.g. accommodation. They are forced to let some nearby flats, or be accommodated in nearby houses, which is not good. The ones in flats are disturbed by all strangers of the community and tempted in many ways. The ones in nearby houses sometimes sleep on an empty stomach, get a lot of work and have no time to study. The Government must start planning to give such schools hostels to ensure the success of these learners. – MN

In and From the Regions
* THE Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources has pronounced itself on not considering the entire Namibian nation for fish consumption. Another point to consider is that the fish prices are much higher than they should be in a fish-producing country. Also the horse mackerel is, in most cases, the only type on the market here in the North. What about other types? Are they perhaps for certain people? We want to know the secret. Let’s all be one and if our wallets cannot allow it then we go for the other option.
* TO the Government: Can we, as drivers between Oshakati and Ruacana, decide ourselves to shoot and kill all animals we find on the tar road at night? Please we lose our families and cars so much. Especially at the village Onampila in the Etayi constituency.
* MUNICIPALITY of Gobabis. How is it possible that a big town like Gobabis does not have outlets to sell prepaid electricity after hours and over the weekends? Whoever is responsible, please make a change. Small towns like Outjo are doing it. Please.
* HOW is it possible that the Electoral Commission of Namibia only gives jobs to people that already have jobs instead of giving the jobs to people who don’t have work. And the ECN asks for a Grade 10 qualification with experience. But how do they expect us to have experience if they keep giving these jobs to the same people that already have jobs. Us people with Grade 10 are also human, start considering us.

Service Please
* CAN Shell or Total or BP bring us a new fuel service station at Omuthiya, at the only one in town – Gerry Service Station – the 95 fuel pump is forever broken. They do not care that there are many customers in this new town.
* ONE Africa television your reception is poor at Walvis Bay please adjust your transmitters!