Smses For Wed 20 May 09

SMS Of The Day

* DO not assume that all foreigners are rich tourists. There is a large group of us who are here as volunteers, and we are treated very poorly. Some Namibians try to trick us, lie to us, and overcharge us.

NamPost employees rip open our packages. Drivers charge us double or triple the fair rate. We are here to help Namibia and share our skills as teachers, doctors and more. We are volunteers! We have very little money and left our jobs, families, and homes to come here. No one should be treated like this, even if they are rich tourists. Many Namibians are kind and friendly. Don’t let Namibia get a bad name. If you see these things happening, stand up and say something! Thank you to those who do welcome us and help us. You make Namibia a nicer place to live. – Lindsey Radachy
Food For Thought* DR (Richard) Kamwi why are there no HIV-AIDS ads on TV especially during the soapies (‘Camilla’)? We want more ads on HIV-AIDS than MTCs ads. I’m sure ads will save lives. – ProtaPolitics In General* MANY a time politicians can give very excellent lip service, but it’s a greater problem to put it into action. – BAB, Karas!* GOVERNMENT should not treat the German Special Initiative as if it was meant to address the plight of marginalised people. The GSI was meant to address the still visible scars of German atrocities. The San suffering for example is just assumed. The mass killing of Ovaherero and Namas is real. So, (Deputy Prime Minister) Doctor Libbie (Amathila) the GSI is not for San as it looks now.Bouquets And Brickbats* THE promised Post-Settlement Financing, for which application forms are now available from Agribank, is highly appreciated. Question now is the possible delay with processing of applications! We are appealing to Agribank and JTC to urgently please attend to our applications. * A WARM thank you to the Keetmanshoop Hospital, and a special thank you to the staff who were on duty on April 22 in the maternity ward. I received excellent service.- Shandy* CITY of Windhoek head office accounts section is a mess. I was put on hold for one (1) hour. Please Mr CEO take action. * TATE Dumbo, she (Lady May) is a talented musician, and we enjoy her music and performance. * MR Kahembe, you give good service at Bank Windhoek, Oshakati. Keep it up. * WHY do people criticise the City Police? It is because they (the critics) are friends of those criminals? General* CAN the Government of Namibia please implement one principle of educative teaching by showing the treason suspects and supporters elsewhere some of the gruesome pictures about the bitter end of the Tamil Tigers rebellion. The lessons and experiences that can be learnt are easy to understand, professional, practical and a reality. It is less expensive to enjoy peace and stability than being thrown in a bottomless pit of violence and endless sufferings.- Twabushalila* IT’S funny how people go on about kwaito. Kwaito, who’s the king and who should be the queen in Namibia. Are we so out of fashion that till now we go on about kwaito. Wake up!! Even where kwaito originated, it is hardly heard. House is the music to listen to even in Namibia. If these two guys are so talented let them do house then. * WHO is responsible for animal control in the City of Windhoek? n PLEASE dear Editor tell me what the National Youth Service programme is, who is allowed to apply, how can I apply, the benefits, everything regarding it please. – Can anyone help here please? – NewsdeskEducation* REOPEN the schools after June 2? Are you kidding me? Most schools in the North have already lost time with the floods! Teachers and parents had enough time to prepare, almost a whole month! What were the teachers doing for most of it? As for the parents: It’s all about organising yourself, they knew the holidays were around surely to ensure they don’t ‘deplete resources’? Don’t ask the rest of the country to suffer for your lack of preparation!* ACCORDING to the law, vocational students should do industrial training. But companies don’t want to take them. We need Government to act on it. * SHORTAGE of textbooks in our school for all the years. Who is the responsible person? That is a serious issue.* IS SI Gobs SS not part of the GRN schools? It’s my first year at SI Gobs SS and I haven’t received a single textbook. How can the GRN expect us to pass? Please help before it’s too late.ACC Alert* WHY is some of the cement that was intended to build the Endola bridges also for sale at a local shebeen? Please ACC take action.- Concerned taxpayerRoad Hogs* I’VE just witnessed how a taxi passed a red traffic light right in front of a traffic police car standing at the same light with absolutely no reaction from the traffic officer. Would anyone care to comment? Any hope something could change in this area?
In And From the Regions
* SKOONHEID overstocked. Special initiative is causing land degradation. The opposite of ‘well done’ is ‘well meant’. Why should the beneficiaries not be allowed to sell? What do they get the cattle for? To keep them until they die a natural death? Or should they try to multiply them to overstock the farm even more? If the San are supposed to learn the weird game of market-oriented cattle farming, it would need other special initiatives rather than giving them more cows than they can feed. What about creating a genuinely free and fair market for beef? What about giving them some few cattle and pay them a fair price for those cows they deliver to the market – if that is the intention? The problem is that some politicians and donors play with people’s lives and livelihoods just to gain a short-term propaganda gimmick in the upcoming elections. All those years nobody cared about the plight of the people there, now suddenly we read a bout ‘good-doers at work’. Nothing against helping the San community! But that would mean to give them space, time and resources such as land to develop their own culture in the way they think is should be done – not to throw money at the problem and hope it will go away. Experience shows that it comes back even bigger than before – but that will of course be after the election.* PLEASE the CEO of Outapi town and the mayor of the same town you should know that you are failing the Swapo Government, because there has been no primary school nor secondary since Independence.* AT the Okahandja Magistrate’s Court building the Namibian flag is upside down and at the half mast, the men’s toilet is broken and overflowing.n THE CDC for Omuthiya Constituency is a dead body. For over two years now no single meeting took place. Where do you think development will take its course, dear Chairman if you keep CDC members at bay? * MR Director of Education in the Kavango Region are you aware that the finance section is refusing to give payslips to the teachers. Many teachers are busy writing exams in town and after all you know many teachers have houses in town. I see this as short sighted and irresponsible to tell teachers to travel 200 km to collect payslips instead of giving to them since they are already in town. Labour Issues* MINISTRY of Labour please check into the cases of domestic workers. Many don’t get annual raises. Don’t they qualify? Please find out for me.* UNEMPLOYED graduates. From the CVs that were submitted to the Ministry of Labour’s Job Seekers Directorate, how many graduates have been placed so far. There were qualified teachers also, yet the ministry of education is still searching for qualified teachers. We are desperate and are willing to start any day, anywhere. * I WONDER where the labour inspector and Farmworkers Union are here in Tsumeb. There is a story at Namfo Farm. There is no difference between permanents and casuals. Casuals also work long hours and on holidays but there is no increase. Please Minister of Labour protect us from poverty. – Employees.* I CLEAN yards at people’s houses and water the garden. Apart from feeding dogs I also take kids to school and I have kind of enjoyed myself lately. So I can’t just camp at the Swapo headquarters and lose my job and wait for money we aren’t aware of. Tax Talk* ‘You have successfully recharged with N$10. VAT is N$1.30…’, MTC Tango. Thanks MTC, now I know it is this Government that sucks my purse dry whenever I buy a recharge voucher. It does the same to my income, buying bread, sweets or clothes and or saving/withdrawing at banks or post offices.- Taxpayer * CAN someone from Ministry of Finance please inform us civil servants when you are going to reduce the tax as promised by the Finance Minister.- TsautagoHealth Matters* WHO is supposed to reveal another person’s HIV status! Nurses in Oshakati reveal patients’ status. Some people make life tough for those infected then. Service Please* AN appeal to FNB card division; ATM deposits save time. Please provide envelopes at the ATMs. So far you’re outstanding among other banks, because they don’t provide the facility of ATM deposits!- FNB client in Windhoek* MTC, please upgrade your 3G coverage at Oranjemund because if you move 1 km south of the tower then you are out of range of 3G coverage. We need service, not only promotions. – Racco* WHAT can we do in the new Namibia to improve the service of the Ministry of Home Affairs and Immigration? I called their office from 15h00 until 16h30 but I didn’t get the right person. Can the honourable person in charge do something? I am so disappointed, I wasted my telephone costs and yet no information. Why can’t the GRN implement a help desk in that ministry? – Disappointed Citizen Sporting* CAN ‘Offside’ presenters explain how that person won that ticket? It appears he called back to explain why his phone was not reachable, correct me if I am wrong. * CAN the NFA and Cell One please explain! Why did they force smaller teams like New Castle United and Bingo FC to play away games in the Cell One Cup and far from home? These two teams played five games each to be in the quarter-final while big teams like Eleven Arrows and SKW only played three games and found themselves there. Why were so-called big guns given more advantage than the small teams? Well done New Castle and Bingo.