SMSes for Wednesday 27 October 2010

* I NEED to know why a Member of Parliament has to be forced to withdraw a true statement. Is it because the public does not need to hear the truth or the truth must not be spoken in Parliament by someone from the competing political parties? I have observed this issue several times. Please allow the truth to be spoken.
– From Omundaungilo wa Shiweda

* WHEN are the traffic police going to do something about the blatant disregard the taxis have for the road rules in Windhoek. I almost have two or three accidents on a daily basis. Have a look where they are now picking up their passengers outside Wernhil Shopping Centre. Someone is going to lose their life if something is not done.Food for Thought* WHO are the Government trying to fool with this so-called GIPF investigation. Nothing will come from it. The Social Security Commission and others were investigated. What happened to those reports? GIPF members, wake up and smell the corruption and act before it is to late!Bouquets and Brickbats* MVA Fund. I would like thank the switchboard operator for picking up on time and being so friendly unlike at the Government where you have to hold for hours. Keep up the good work gentlemen.- Van Wyk, Rehoboth!Good for you* THUMBS up to Avera Resources Namibia for the sponsorship of Erich Goeieman.-Donald !Goraseb* MR Ndangi Katoma of the Bank of Namibia, you have it wrong here. Holidays and Cash is not a pyramid, I’m enjoying my earnings from it. What’s not a pyramid these days? Even there where you are, you earn much more than the people who are doing the job. Keep your concerns to yourself. I’m not going to stop putting bread on the table because of the BoN. Unemployment of 51,2 per cent is too high and you can’t add on by stopping my H & C. BoN, Ndangi don’t mind us, we can take care of ourselves. Leave H and C alone!* HOLIDAY & Cash: How can a person tell me that it’s a false scheme while I got paid today. BoN must tell us why we must stop and how we can be victims?* BANK of Namibia send the Governor and Ndangi back school so that they can learn the difference between a pyramid and not a pyramid.- Walvis Bay, Walvis Bay* WE thought this TVI Express scheme was genuine since its major promoters recruiting people are FNB main branch managers in Windhoek and that it was an FNB initiative.* BON must also protect the nation against the loss of millions from various companies like GIPF and bailing out of ill-managed parastatals and not only be against pyramid schemes* AM doubting the veracity of PS Erastus Negonga’s submissions in Uganda re ‘recall of parliamentary rep, and health spending of U$700 per person in Namibia’.* CHARLES Namoloh, leave the education system for the Education Ministry and concentrate on your underpaid soldiers’ problems.* WHEN did Mr Charles Namoloh become a Minister? His comment on Education is way too late. Can’t The Namibian interview all the ministers to hear their thoughts about the education system. Not all of them are aware of the system.* ‘NDESHI and Jakes’ ever making fun of black people! Are there no funny non-black people in Namibia?* PLEASE, the person is not Ferdinand Mulale. He is Ferdinand Molale (One on One interviewer on NBC-TV). Thanks.GIPF Saga* TO Monica Kalondo and company, I understand you are business people who want to make money through investment but please remember that the Government Institutions Pensions Fund is not a bank. We the public servants are underpaid and have low income houses. Mr Eliott at least invest that money in us the teachers.- Plato* ‘THE vuvuzelas will get quiet’- Monica Kalondo. How right she is. Nothing will come out of GIPF – DCP loans as usual.- Nado* MR Gordon Eliot, you are a long-serving trustee of GIPF. At the recent stakeholders conference you asserted that GIPF remains as transparent as ever in the Namibian financial sector. Never insult our intelligence with your well articulated but desperate and hollow rhetoric. It is under your guidance, as co-trustee of the GIPF, that millions were dished out for a two-page business plan. You, like your colleagues, chose to remain quiet about it until the matter was otherwise made public. What light and transparency are you talking about?- G Maletzky* GIPF Saga: Who is fooling who? Page 20 of The Namibian of October 19 2010 on GIPF Comprehensive Overview and DCP refers. Eighty per cent of the people use either of the law firms that are appointed to investigate the recipients, of DCP funds, as their legal representatives. Why doesn’t GIPF instruct an independent foreign firm to do the job?* REPORTS about the GIPF debacle have been discussed by all and sundry. It is only our Minister of Finance who remains dead silent! Why?* WHY, as civil servants, can we not be given bursaries from our pension money to pursue our careers?Election Fever* SOMEBODY with knowledge in law and its proceedings please help me. I feel like I’m losing it. I’m doubting my own ability to think. It’s hard for me to comprehend that the Electoral Commission of Namibia is yet again organising another election while having a pending case of questionable conduct. Is it really that normal? – NadoFrom the House* HAGE Geingob goes to Parliament to talk about how people want to destroy his political ambition. This man just cares about himself. Sir, Parliament is there for issues of national interest in order to bring changes that Swapo promised us. Sort out your personal matters outside of the august House and get real.* I WONDER why the Government is still banning the purchase of the The Namibian newspaper if they quote the newspaper and each other in Parliament. Can MPs act maturely and stop calling each other names. It’s evident the multi-party state is still not fully embraced. Diversity is our strength. Work it, live it and everyone will feel it.- LR Magano* I READ in The Namibian newspaper of Monday, October 25, about MPs attacking each other. I want to ask them if they are in Parliament to make laws or to insult each other?- Leonard* CAN the National Assembly members discuss the high prices of houses in Windhoek. I wonder if 60 per cent of civil servants can afford to acquire a house.Politics* I FIRMLY believe that a one-party state is the our best option to take the country forward and to achieve national unity among different tribes. We need one Namibian party. That’s it. Multi-party democracy is just a moneymaking business invented by the West to divide the people and make it easier to rule over them – internally and externally. A one party state does not mean dictatorship. Forget about communists, democrats, nationalist … let’s all be under one umbrella. Aluta continua!- S FilipovicRoad Hogs* MORE people are dying in car accidents in Namibia than those with HIV. Can the MVA please give statistics of people who have died in car accidents, please. It is really shocking that I see accidents on the news every day. Why should the traffic controllers only put roadblocks during the festive season, why not through the year. People are dying like flies. The roadblocks must be there permanently. – Julia NdaraIn and From the Regions* CAN the Rundu Town Council please clear the bush near the dam between Millennium Park and Ndama location. People are using it as a toilet and criminals are also hiding there. Now that it is the rainy season, residents can’t stand the smell and when heavy rain starts, the same contaminated rain water flows to our houses leaving our children’s health at risk as they play outside. Mr Haironga, please come and see this area and kindly do something before our kids suffer from serious health problems. People using this bush should be assisted with latrine materials. Thank you.* MINISTRY of Home Affairs? The state of affairs at Rundu on Monday makes it more like a Ministry of Horrible affairs to me! Counters were unattended while poor citizens were waiting for hours! Windows were closed and fans were off and it was extremely hot after 12h00! Seriously, when will service improve in this ministry?
Health Matters* DR (Richard) Kamwi, people are very sick in the North and I don’t understand why we are not being injected like in the South. There are no learners in classrooms, teachers are also sick and lives are lost. Please do something before many lives are lost especially at Otamanzi CS in Omusati Region. Education* ARE we going to have all schools in Namibia named after people? I see a trend has developed countrywide where many schools are all being renamed after people. I do not think it’s sensible to rename all schools, let alone after people.* POLYTECHNIC Finance Department, please issue 300 claim forms. One hundred forms is not enough. Imagine how many people stand in line every second week and there are only 100 forms?.City Fathers Please* PLEASE City of Windhoek, there are people who empty and overturn our dirt bins during the night in the suburbs before your refuse removal truck arrives to collect the wheelie bins. Can the City Police not warn or arrest these people for littering that is against the law. We do not want out city to resemble Kampala, Uganda. We are proud of our capital.- Proud Windhoek resident, ErosNBC* WHO is dressing our female news presenters. They look terrible. Please NBC, do something.- Concerned viewerSporting* PLEASE The Namibian, can you find out for us what is going wrong with the Southern First Division. We are tired of training for nothing. Go and ask John Muinjo please.Service Please* PLEASE help! We need a Standard Bank ATM at Karibib as we are being charged a lot by using another ATM. – N Kwedhi* NBC discounts subscriptions for pensioners. Why can’t MultiChoice? The monthly subscription is more than the total pension paid to a pensioner.- Poor pensioner* WHY are we in Otavi unable to view the One Africa TV channel while surrounding towns like Tsumeb, Grootfontein and Otjiwarongo are receiving the signal. Help please!Labour Issues* PLEASE Ministry of Labour, we the workers of Purity are starving and our kids have not paid their school fees. Please, we the workers of Purity Manganese are still waiting for your decision please.Responses to recent SMSes From the Ministry of Lands and Resettlement WE refer to your SMS, page 8, of Tuesday, October 26.With regard to illegal occupation of commercial farms or communal areas, there are procedures to be followed if one needs to be resettled or apply for allocation of new customary land rights, anything to the contrary is illegal and the law of the land will apply.Farmers resettled and involved in subletting, first of all the lease agreement stipulates that the Lessee shall not assign, sublet or mortgage the farm, neither shall the Lessee enter into partnership for the working of such property except with the prior written consent of the Minister. Failure to comply with any provision of the relevant Act may result in the cancellation of the lease. Upon cancellation of the lease, the right to occupy the farm and all improvements thereon shall vest in the state subject to the payment of compensation of all improvements effected on the property after occupation.Farming Units allocated but not occupied, in most cases the non occupation is normally a result of non-availability of water infrastructure on such farming units, before any beneficiary is allocated, the Ministry should make sure that the basic components of a farm, such as water is readily available for the sustenance of both the fauna and flora.Farms purchased and demarcated, why it takes time to advertise them? Again the author should understand that before you advertise a farming unit, all the necessary improvements (water, fencing, etc) before occupation must be rehabilitated.Regarding the issue of theft and plundering on some farming units, the Ministry of Lands and Resettlement has entered into agreement with the Ministry of Youth, National Service, Sport and Culture for the latter to make available caretakers who are being deployed at Government farms in order to safeguard those assets.Let me thank the author for the constructive criticism. I must also invite the public to kindly always direct their queries to my office for prompt response and information sharing. Chrispin MatongelaPublic Relations OfficerTel 061-2965318 or 0811223321

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