SMSes of Monday 23 November 2009

* ARTHUR Gotz’s letter in Friday’s paper brought tears to my eyes. It’s so true. But the powers that be turn a blind eye. Don’t throw this pearl of a country to the swine please!

Food for Thought* POLITICIANS are poisoning the children. Children are easily manipulated, they should be left alone until they are mature enough to make their own decisions. Politics is distracting children from their studies and it will ruin their dreams. No one under the age of 16 should be allowed to attend a political rally. Please leave the children alone, don’t use them to achieve your political ambitions. Why should the children attend political rallies if they are not going to vote? Stop the indoctrination of the children, they are too innocent to be taken for a ride. They might be our children but we can’t decide for them because they have their own minds. That is an abuse of children’s rights. If you are a politician it does not mean that your children are also politicians.- ShilongoBIG* ONCE again somebody stood up for the voiceless. Thanks Bishop Kameeta for speaking about the evil corruption in Namibia as well as the BIG. PM Nahas Angula we need answers on this issue. We beg you to come out and respond to what Bishop Kameeta suggested.- Concerned Brave Warrior* POVERTY in Namibia is indeed a scandal! Thank you Bishop Kameeta for bringing to the fore, issues of poverty, and the core problem in Namibia, selfishness and greed. Thank you also for calling for a change of heart, mind and attitude. – FNK* VIVA tate Kameeta! You are an inspiration, you think ahead and you thoroughly assessed the needs of the poor. Shame on our politicians for being selfish!- Lea* WE need the BIG to help us with our lives. We are poor.- Imelda, Otjiwarongo * I WISH BIG was a political party, I wouldn’t have a doubt in my mind voting for them!* GOVERNMENT of Namibia please implement the Basic Income Grant. It will help us with buying food, paying our school and hospital fees and more* BISHOP Kameeta I wish you could be the next president.- JK Kisting* BISHOP Kameeta, that’s what we the poor want to hear. You should have been in the race for the presidency!Dr Zephania Kameeta* DR Kameeta is a true redeemer. I remember how he and other church leaders and the then progressive movements, defied brutal apartheid forces (while others were in exile) and led protest marchers against injustices. Thank you for reminding the ruling class that absolute power, greed and entitlement corrupts even more. Our diamonds, gold or uranium only benefit guerrilla investors and well-connected individuals. BIG must be the priority Cde Nahas (Angula), so that no one accuses you, Cde Hage (Geingob) or Cde (Elijah) Ngurare of the ‘PHD Syndrome’ when it comes to poverty alleviation. At least BIG works. Rev Kameeta is one of the few voices of sanity still left and for me he’s the spiritual leader of Namibia. May God Bless him.Election Fever* FIRST allow me to congratulate the ECN on a job well done, as I’ve seen a lot of disabled people at training. However to my dismay I would like to know what criteria were used to recruit the extra people that were not part of the registration process. As I’ve noticed that a lot of our supervisors and co-ordinators have their immediate family, wife and children at the training. * THANK you ECN for recruiting the unemployed. But how can you invite them to attend training very far from their homes without giving them any daily allowances or S & T? Some of them don’t have relatives in the towns where training is taking place. I’m sure the trainers are getting these allowances.-NPH* THE ECN is a failure. It has names of old people I know on its voters’ roll whom we buried four years ago. Wake up ECN and redo the whole registration please Victor Tonchi.* MR (Elijah) Ngurare, you and your party could have just informed the ECN that you have this number of votes abroad, counting all the people in the mission. What a waste of taking elections there if you are questioning people’s right of political choices today? God save Namibia, you the Almighty are the only hope left.- Nelago* WITHOUT shame, Elijah Ngurare of the SPYL is calling for Ambassador K Mbuende to be recalled because there was no (alleged) voter rigging at the Namibian embassy in New York. This statement is an insult to the entire Namibian nation. President (Hifikepunye) Pohamba or Information Minister Joel Kaapanda should respond to such moral bankruptcy, in defence of the Constitution.Politics* WHAT is an opposition party? RDP is not an opposition but a new political party. Opposition is when a party contests an election and loses.* COMRADE (Jerry) Ekandjo do you know that the apartheid regime also armed and gave chiefs vehicles? In the end they achieved nothing and lost the support of their subjects because they represented the interest of the regime. – Kakola Kekulye* POLITICS today is trying to take the upper hand in Namibia. It pushes away our dignity and it slowly fades the unity of the proud Namibians! The heads of parties must gather together for a live interview by several journalists! Politicians must bear in mind that this is not a battlefield nor a competition, but a visualisation towards Vision 2030.* OMBUDSMAN, please explain to Mr E Kaaronda, Dr E Ngurare and others, that a civil servant (a person working for the Government) must be impartial/objective and not promote politics during duty!Bouquets and Brickbats* DV8 Saatchi Saatchi’s job advert in Friday’s paper was funny. A welcome breather for a change with all the dreary news nowadays. Thanks for the smile!- Natalia* CONGRATULATIONS to Arthur Götz and his letter. He is telling it like it is! * I NEED to share my experience with the whole world. I just purchased a vehicle from a second-hand dealer in Windhoek and the service I got is astonishing. It took me less than a week to sit behind the wheel of my new toy, or should I say Merc. That is of course with a weekend in between and a cracked windscreen replacement. But Wouter and Patricia from Spes Bona, you guys are great. I really enjoyed the idea of the red carpet when climbing into my new purchase. And Wouter, the flower thing? Not bad. Thank you Spes Bona.* I LIKE the cartoon drawings in your newspapers, but the tales are so boring. (I don’t get the picture most of the time.)* ‘CHIEFS and Cleaners’ was a brilliant piece. I agree wholeheartedly.* I AM happy with Alfredo Tjiurimo Hengari’s column in your newspaper but please Alfredo write simple English. What you are writing is good but it is not media language. You are sending us a dictionary. Hope for change next Friday.- Rodman* WHO is writing our traffic signs, asked my one-year-old old daughter. At Bahnhof Strasse TransNamib, the sign reads ‘keer clear’ instead of ‘keep clear’.- Concerned taxpayerEducation* HELP! Another farm school is going to close its doors! Please, teachers’ unions, politicians, where are you? The next on the list is Toko Koopman Primary. What about the small, innocent kids with their poor parents? Taxpayers’ money down the drain. Somebody help please. * THE end of any year is an absolute nightmare to any teacher: the inhumane workload of marking and marks, the ill-mannered learners to be supervised, the policing principals and inspectors waiting for marks for scrutiny while having tea and goodies in their offices, always having meetings during school hours! The poor Heads of Departments are the ones working themselves half dead! No wonder most of them look so run down, exhausted and sick all the time! Please, these people are working with our precious kids.City Fathers Please…* WHEN is the City of Windhoek coming to demarcate our erven and allocate us numbers before 8ste Laan (informal settlement) loses its current good structures? Why vote if our voices are not heard?* WE want police to watch the riverbeds around Windhoek permanently (shifts) to avoid rapes and murders.- JKIn and From the Regions* VILLAGE councillor Mr Bantam we want electricity in Grünau please. Do something to help us. – Disappointed* LET me air my problem to Eenhana Town Council. Please we residents have a problem with mosquitoes. We are afraid of malaria. Please do something to help our people, especially the small kids who are helpless.- Twaloloka* WE are farmworkers at this Kamanjab constituency. We don’t know the new law for farmworkers and we need to know it. Please labour officials in Kunene, try to do your job. We are treated badly by our farm manager.- Farmworker
* I THINK all the residents in and around Rundu are aware of the power problems we are experiencing. Every time there are a few raindrops the power goes off. Can Nored please improve their power supply system, because that problem is damaging our TVs, radio, and so on. We are really tired of replacing our electrical appliances. Please Nored do something. – Rundu resident * WE need public toilets in Mariental please.- JKKGeneral* IN response to the SMS on November 18 about what should happen to the old State House: it should be turned into a boarding school for street kids.- H Talaska* NATIS, which book must we use? The new one or the old one?- Mr Worried* MARIETJIE Pottas’s comment could be acceptable to her but I stay in Namibia, where does she stay? Maybe the time has come for a change. I will be disappointed if things carry on the way they have.* I’M shocked! The Government doesn’t open shops! Someone in Oranjemund doesn’t know that shops are opened by private people or companies! * PLEASE relocate Eros airport outside the city of Windhoek. What if a plane ploughs through somebody’s house? Plane accidents are too many.- Cimbebasia residentHealth Matters* TWO weeks ago I was at Katutura Hospital. The security gate at entrance was broken. At least 500 potholes in the driveway. Five lifts not working. You can smell the toilet down the passage and if you’re not careful, the cockroaches will carry you away. The patient I was there to visit was not registered at the nurses’ station and we had to go through every ward to find her. Does The Namibian ever get real enough to tour the hospital with cameras and invite Minister Kamwi to come along? Never mind politics, the Katutura hospital is a horror story! Never mind all the political hot air! Get real.* PLEASE my fellow patients, even if we are sick at least we must try to wash our bodies and brush our teeth. We are smelling like we last took bath some months ago. Let us improve!* MINISTRY of Health, please install air-conditioners in Katutura Health Centre. We patients are suffering. Just imagine what it is like when the clinic is full with us all inhaling the same stale air.Labour Issues* I JUST want to ask the Ministry of Defence when the names of those who applied for the Defence Force, and were successful, will be out.* WHY did the Namibian Agronomic Board give the tender to an RSA company while Namibians can also do the job?Service Please* I WOULD like to refer to the Telecom Press Release on page B7 (on Friday) on 3G EVDO products. I personally don’t have an issue with the extra costs, however, when we were buying these products we didn’t have to worry about additional costs and exceeding limits. In fact it was never explained to us. Telecom should have waited for those contracts that we acquired before 1 August 2009 to expire then institute these charges. At the moment we walk into Teleshops and find inflated accounts that most people can’t afford. In fact Telecom should have offered us free upgrade options. In addition we have a huge problem with Teleshop Rundu. The staff there are so quick to dismiss customer queries. They don’t seem to know their products and are forever selling the wrong products to clients. Even if you go in to query accounts you are told one thing but when you come in to make payments the next day then you will be told something completely different. Telecom needs to train its staff or find people who know their job! We cannot be ill treated like this yet we pay their salaries!* PLEASE GIPF try to pay our pension and disability grants to Nampost a week before the state pensioners get their pensions. Then the money will be transferred to our banks in time for end of the month debit orders.Please slice my bread* SHOPRITE Stores in Ondangwa, Ongwediva and Oshakati why don’t you cut your bread. How can you expect the customers to do it themselves. Other Shoprites they have the bread cut and ready to go. Please change this.- Frustrated Customer
* WE need the MTC service very urgently at Eheke area in Ondangwa Consituency, Oshana Region please! – Concerned resident* WE are struggling with the MTC network in this part of the far North, especially in Ohungumure 17km west of Opuwo. Please MTC do something.- Mabullo K J* ONE AFRICA TV we need sport back please. Why are you not repeating the English Premier League?* THIS message goes out to the NBC please show us the Premier Soccer League for South Africa.Lost and Found* SELMA Ruben has lost her ID. If found please call 081-302-5907.* I FOUND an ID card belonging to Getrud Mpingana Panduleni Uugwanga. Please call 081-203-2739. * I FOUND some items belonging to Mr NT Iiyambo who was a labourer at Oamites Military Base but now he is an NDF Soldier. Please call or SMS me urgently to: 081-349-9347.* I AM Katrina Chikumu, I have lost my ID. If found please call at 081-361-0109 or 081-345-3593.