SMSes for Tues 23 Dec 08

Food For Thought * IT was the scramble for Africa in the past and today it is the scramble for Namibia. Our leaders please inform the nation about your silent sale of our land to China! It saddens us the youth that you are apparently concerned about how our wealth is exploited and we go hungry. Our leaders, one day you will answer to the children of the soil!

* ANOTHER air crash? Some of these companies should be closed down! They cut costs by employing inexperienced pilots who get low salaries and we question the pre-check and service of the aircraft. Don’t blame the age of the aircraft, rather the age of the pilots!

Referees can make or break it.

Bouquets And Brickbats

* MR Boy Boy (Ndjadila) you proved to us that we have good referees like this weekend in Tsumeb. It was very good. Keep it up with good match officials. – Sports Lover, Otavi.

* I WOULD like to praise the officials at Mata Mata border post in the South for their friendliness and their very helpful attitude to the tourists. To the person in charge please keep up the good work, because your border is one of cleanest in the south. – MM

Politics

* CAN the Swapo Party explain to the nation what freedom of association means before I make a decision to join other political parties. – Patricia Nahambo, Ombalantu

* I WOULD like to remind my fellow Namibians to open our eyes. We must ask ourselves why every time when we move toward elections we are promised good things? But these promises are never fulfilled and after the elections, they keep quiet and ignore us until the following election. – Sacky, Okahao

President Robert Mugabe.

Zimbabwe

* I AM ashamed to be living in Robert Mugabe Avenue. I am also ashamed to be living in a city where the municipality suffers from a total absence of foresight to mindlessly name a street after this person.

* VERWOERD was born in Holland, and came to South Africa to fine-tune legally entrenched apartheid with disastrous socio-economic consequences. Hitler came from Austria to destroy Europe/Germany. Stalin was a Georgian in USSR. Mugabe came to Southern Rhodesia from Nyasaland (Malawi). He calls himself a Zimbabwean ‘Zimbabwe is mine’. He is an impostor. History has already judged these emotionally starved dictators. – Ubuntu

* LIFE over the fear of death. The United States must maintain its confidence to lead in this agenda. Condi Rice, I say the US has failed when it comes to Zimbabwe.

* WHO owns this world? I’m urging all world leaders to stand firm and say enough is enough over power hungry Robert Mugabe and his corrupt regime. He is taking advantage of problems he himself created for the people of Zimbabwe. Now Zimbabweans are victims of man-made problems. They are busy sourcing their own food, mostly from neighbouring countries. However, this is giving an extra burden over their lives. Rise and shine SADC, AU and UN to say go down Mugabe.

Raising The Roof

* IF the Government gives 12 per cent increases to those who already get over N$50 000, what about those who earn less than N$30 000 a year? Is that really fair?

* THIS Government helps the rich become richer and the poor become poorer. How can the President approve the salary increments of ministers and deputy ministers and leave out the poor soldiers? Please increase the salaries of soldiers.

* MR President do you know that you have failed the nation, how can you give 28% increases to your ministers who are non-performers

* 28 PER CENT self-enrichment for the big guns! How can they give themselves such a big cake and forget the voters? How can they give a mere five per cent to the workers? Oh (President Hifikepunye) Pohamba must be recalled…

* MR (Evilastus) Kaaronda start making noise, 28 per cent is far too much…

* THE public office bearers got a 24 per cent salary increase. But what about the ordinary civil servants?

In And From The Regions

* WHY doesn’t Coca-Cola want to collect our (competition entry) forms in Aus? We also want to win. Please collect the forms, the time is nearly up.

* Delay of newspapers in Katima Mulilo. We are receiving newspapers very late, almost two days after they are published. Can you look at this matter? – Duyu – WE have passed your query on to the distribution department. Thank you for pointing this out so we can rectify the situation. – Newsdesk

* WE kids from the North are always linked to education but have no entertainment. Why don’t we open our own radio station? All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

Medicines as needed.

* IF you need to get medicine in Aranos, you can be left waiting for hours to be helped. Please chief clerk of Aranos health care look into this.

General

* PLEASE don’t confuse Unitrans with TransNamib. They are two different companies. A TransNamib driver cannot drive a Unitrans truck. The writer should get his facts correct.

* DEAR Editor. Would you please be so kind and run a series on what inland revenue is and the importance thereof. It is hard and difficult for the newly employed to fill in and often take them for granted. It is one part that schools have left out when preparing people for the job market.

* WHAT is the use of giving marriage certificates to couples if our Government’s law is not strong? Women are suffering from many girlfriends and men get more children outside marriage. Please make the law very strong. Women are suffering if a man is in love with girlfriends.

A feature of all churches.

* NOT only Elcin uses a prayer book, all churches do for them to have uniformity in prayers, but still the chance is there for own prayers. Even the Roman Catholic which to me is a mother church does. We at Elcin we are comfortable with our prayer book. Viva Elcin!

* SHOULDN’T the Police have a reasonable suspicion that a person had consumed alcohol before asking him or her to blow in the breathalyser? Aren’t such actions of the Police, where there exists no reasonable suspicion, a serious invasion of a person’s right to dignity? Can the Police inform us in terms of what legislation they justify their actions!

* GOOD news: if you earn N$3 000 or less per month no tax is payable! If your employer has deducted tax contact Ministry of Finance to get your money back. – R Tyson

* DEAR Editor, are security guards allowed to have war weapons such as AK47s? – Concerned Tsumeb resident

Message Of Condolence

* YOU will always have a special place in my heart. I will never for get your friendliness and the respect you had for me, for the late Patrick Jagger. – Nelson M Damaseb

Education

* KUNENE Region senior educationists please do something to motivate higher level teachers especially at Outjo SS. They are really doing a great job but they must also try to encourage more learners to do higher level. I would like to thank the economics, history, English and accounting teachers.

* I AM worried about the way Caprivi College of Education is selecting candidates. Learners who obtained more points are not selected. Failures are admitted.

* PLEASE allow me to vent my frustration on the way the DNEA is running the exams. As a teacher I invigilated last and this year’s exams and have noticed a deteriorating trend. Firstly most of the exam papers had a lot of errors. Even though erratum notices were provided they were useless for they only corrected punctuation errors but blindly leaving out conceptual errors. This caused a lot of confusion and obviously cost our students a lot of marks. Why don’t they seriously edit those papers or is it because incompetent people are involved? Pathetic. Secondly the payment of invigilators had a lot of discrepancies. Some have been paid while others have been partly paid or not at all. Efforts to enquire have been thwarted by the unfriendly staff who just brush you aside by telling you to wait for next year. Christmas fever. – Penyando.

* MR (David) Namwandi, the chairman of IUM, we need a branch co-ordinator who knows how to manage. A person who will create a good image for IUM.- IUM Student, Walvis Bay

* SMSes for
Grade 10 and 12 are robbery because a person sends an SMS and they send wrong results with a wrong name and charge for every SMS. But is their mistake to SMS wrong results.

Service Please

* THIS must be the worst Namibian record ever. I enter Oshakati Standard Bank around 11h00 and leave about 15h20 on December 22 when there were about 15 people in front of me. What a nightmare it was.

* NEDBANK why are you letting us suffer so much at Henties Bay. Please we need a ATM or temporary branch and a cell phone banking system. Come on you are in business. – Worried Henties Bay Client

* WHAT’S wrong with Air Namibia? The flight from CT via Walvis Bay is now also added to the list of delays every day! Please wake up! It’s Christmas.

* BANK Windhoek in Outapi when are you going to be independent in financial assistance to your clients about loans, overdrafts. We are tired of being referred to Oshakati.

Taxi Talk

* N$230 from Windhoek to Ondangwa with one bag, plus fuel has decreased? Nabta is this correct?

* IT’S unfair the km from Windhoek to Grootfontein and from Windhoek to Khorixas and we are paying N$130 to Grootfontein and N$190 to Khorixas, and N$110 from Windhoek to Otjiwarongo and from Windhoek to Otavi N$ 110. Please Nabta, we are not the same in the pocket. Give us the right prices please. Happy Christmas to all The Namibian readers. Salute.

ACC Alert

* ACC, please investigate the Ohangwena Regional Council ASAP.

The famous legal landmark.

And Justice For All

* THIRTY years for raping a girl! That is as much as a cattle-thief gets for stealing a goat! It’s inhuman, folks! What is this country coming to? Where is NSHR?