SMSes Of The Day : Monday

* NAMIBIA should go slow on wanting to aim for big projects like nuclear power, which are not a priority at all at the moment, and should rather address matters that are pertinent and doable.

* GAMMAMS Water Works staff, you people are truly making us suffer! What on earth are you putting in that water? Our faces, after washing, are drying up as if one has facial mask on! The body, is another story. It itches non-stop, whether creamed or not, eyes gets irritated, etc! Please control those chemicals! – Tymie, Windhoek. Food For Thought* CAN the Ministry of Health set up a toll-free number where we can report retailers that are selling expired food.* THE current labour unrest in our country denotes a need to employ labour relations officers. Public and private employers please do something as unions have lost focus. – Concerned taxpayer, WindhoekBouquets And Brickbats* THANKS to Namcol, the 11 learners of Berseba will write Grade 10. Thank you Mr Minister.* MAYBE The Namibian must submit a paper on citizen journalism because of the SMS service you provide us. Thank you for the great service.* NAMIBIAN newspaper, why don’t you terminate your biased SMS page in your daily editions? You are quick to place only SMSes against Swapo or ministers, but not against the opposition parties. – PAPS – Swapo and the ministers represent the Government, which has a big majority in Parliament, and plays the major role in running Namibia. As such they receive the largest number of comments and messages, both positive and critical. – Newsdesk* KEEP up the good work of telling it like it is, especially on the SMS Of The Day because not only are they highly informative, they also trigger more action from different community leaders. There is no need to tune from one radio station to another because most of the important events will be surely be on the SMS of the Day. – Ndaafetwa* PEOPLE have turned this page into a war zone. Can we name the last SMS headline “a point to ponder” and write something positive for the day? – We hear you! See Tailender at the end of this page. Hope we will get regular contributions. – Newsdesk* THE Weekender is serious, it’s not the same anymore. Maybe you have a shortage of creativity. Spice it up more.* BIG compliments to the Walvis Bay Police. Crime has dropped sufficiently.In And From The Regions* FROM Katima: NSHR please assist us, are you observing a free trial in the Caprivi treason trial?* OUTAPI Police please try being on the road on Fridays. Those taxi drivers race like maniacs, putting the passengers’ lives in danger. – Nsungwe* PLEASE make Vaalgras a village. That is the place where the first Swapo office was built in this country, but they have become marginalised.* MAY the Ministry of Safety and Security improve the nature of the public toilet at Ondangwa Police Station. It has a very bad smell, it may cause some serious sickness to a human being. – Shamukolondo* THE Ministry of Home Affairs workers at Ondangwa please do your job. Where were you on September 27? After lunch you came to the office at 14h30 instead of 14h00. You are being paid for that time you wasted. There are many jobless people in need of the same position to serve the nation better than you.* I’M calling on the Swapo leadership to start instructing or evaluate the activities of their local authority councillors. I’m a Swapo card-carrying member at Ondangwa but our own Swapo councillors are letting our party down. How long will the residents live in this town without street names, without street lights and those that are there are not maintained. Those are simple things that do not need a lot of money. There are no tarred roads, just dust everywhere which is a health hazard for our kids.* WE at Dam-a-tsaus have a serious water shortage. We took it up with Rural Water Supply Karibib and even with the Regional Councillor, but nothing happened. Please we need help* KARIBIB Rural Water Supply what’s so difficult? We are just 35 km away but we are suffering without water for two months now. Please water is life. Provide a service. Dam-a-tsaus please do something. We are suffering without water.Politics* PEOPLE who are constantly complaining about no development, no water and electricity, etc, after 18 years are really making me sick. Your vote, which is only your secret, counts and can make a difference. So stop complaining and start with changes yourself.* I REGULARLY read whatever on political parties. One question: why are those least performing at work the most vocal against their comrades in Swapo? I never heard Dr Amadhila or Iyambo (both), Kawana, Meme Ndaitwah, Mrs Sara Amadhila, Mr Toivo, Mutorwa, … advising to cut tails of their countrymen! But listen to Hon Ekandjo, Mungunda, Com Kaaronda, Ngurare whose bad performance has cost billions! Is the hate speech linked to low performance? Please help.* I WAS very ashamed to hear the Speaker of the National Assembly refusing to speak his Damara/Nama language (saying he is a servant of the GRN ) at a Damara/Nama festival. Other politicians speak their language in their place.* I AM very disappointed with the Namibian Government lawmakers! It is totally irresponsible of them not to turn up for important sessions and that meetings are cancelled because of no quorum!! That is shameful.* HERE in Tobias Hainyeko Constituency we RDP members are called ‘Omaama’ an Omusati word meaning ‘Cannibal’.* TOBIAS Hainyeko by-election is around the corner. I am suggesting that any political party which makes uncalled-for statements, uses intimidation tactics or tries to buy votes by slaughtering six cattle should be chased away from the election. – Kamati* HOW can Swapo justify why RDP members are not allowed to move in Tobias Hainyeko without intimidation and harassment. Why do we have to go under police escort at all times in the country of our birth and for which we equally fought and our own relatives died.Shebeens* ON alcohol abuse and lawlessness in Karas. Name and shame the barons who feed our youth with alcohol.* NO one is forced to go for alcohol, you can close the shebeens but we can still go to clubs or legal bars and drink with the same behaviour. Please Reverend Kameeta go and close Namibia Breweries and stop them from supplying alcohol to the nation. The Church is part of your job and you get bread and money from it, we are getting a living from shebeens. If you’ve got other jobs for us, then you are free to close our shebeens. – KMGeneral* I AM calling upon whoever’s responsible for noise pollution. We residing in Okuryangava suffer badly from noise made by my party members, Swapo to be specific, at late hours of the night. We need to rest at night. – Alvin* HOW sad to have had Xmas decorations up in the shops in September! By Xmas they will be dusty and spoilt and not even noticed anymore. Why not wait until December so that Xmas can have the sparkle it deserves instead of jaded commercialism?A Street By Any Other Name* OMURAMBA Street: No problem naming new streets after African heroes, but big problem ignoring cities’ own procedures and re-naming established streets without consulting affected residents and ratepayers.* NAMIBIANS you have more than enough heroes and non-heroes named after streets and the like here. Ai! This freedom of speech, especially when exercised for the sake of it. I’m worried about our citizens scavenging dustbins, empty slogans, the poor losing houses, the elderly walking to GIPF or else….Nature’s Call* IT beats me how Government wants to construct toilets along roads while towns such as Aus still have the bucket system.* MR President please do us a favour and fire the minister who wants to put toilets on the roadside. Appoint a new minister who can put toilets at Okahandja Park and Havana.* TOILETS along the National Road Network: Those who are criticising Minister Helmut Angula of Works and Transport for transparently consulting the public on the possibility of erecting toilets along the National Road Network as directed by Cabinet should think before attacking him as a single Minister and in his personal capacity. What he is doing is implementing a Cabinet directive task to him by Cabinet in his capacity as the Minister responsible for transport that includes the National Road Network. For toilets in Okahandja Park or other locations suggested by some SMSes as the ideal places that the Minister should have considered, in this case the Cabinet would have directed the Minister of Regional, Local Government, Housing and Rural Development to engage Local Authorities, Municipalities and Village Councils. In the case of the toilets along the National Road Network, the Minister of Works and Transport has engaged the Roads Authority which has a mandate of managing the National Road Network on behalf of the Ministry of Works and Transport.Education* MINISTRY of Education, please do research at schools such as Dagbreek and Môreson and see how many kids are on the waiting list. Our kids are left out every year because of limited place. – Christy, Concerned Parent* MINISTRY of Education! Please pay teachers for all what they do. The responsibility for a teacher is to ‘teach’ and nothing else.Hear it please.Otherwise these additional tasks must be remunerated too.* I REALLY wonder why the entry age for Grade 1 is seven years. For an example, my daughter’s date of birth is in February, so it means she’ll have to wait another full year and then be enrolled at the age of eight years, and finish school at 20. What a waste of time. I started Sub A at six and matriculated at 17 years. Ministry of Education please use common sense.* COULD the MoE give the statistics on the Grade 10 repeaters before the end the academic year? Or where did the money go?* THE Ministry of Education must change the style of setting an English exam! They only ask those things from overseas (articles). We are Namibians and we know it as a whole. Please we don’t want to fail any more. – Grade 12 learner* AT Eembahu Combined School in Ohangena Region, Eenhana Circuit learners who cannot pay school development funds have their names read at assembly so that other learners can laugh!Health Matters* THE term “life-prolonging” has always been used even before HIV came. It has been largely, widely used for HIV treatment given the epidemic nature, high death rates and stigmatisation associated with the disease. It is not the doctors attempting to mislead anyone, because anyone can use it.- Dr MService Please!* OSHIKANGO Pick ‘n Pay please do something. You are selling spoiled food, especially bread and eggs. – Concerned Regular CustomerLabour Issues* UNFAIR recruitment in the South. Let me view my point when it comes to us the youth in the south. We who schooled here are on the streets, but the youths coming from the central and northern parts are the ones who are employed in the mines here. So we will just remain on the streets of Luederitz. What about us who schooled here in the south. Once we apply for employment in the north, there is no response to the application.* IS freedom of association only on paper? Why do Napwu and the Ministry of Finance not want nurses to resign from Napwu claiming that there is a system that cannot be changed. Nanu increased the monthly contribution fee from N$20 to N$40 last year, but till now its only subsidised institutions such as Catholic Health Services who have implemented the Nanu directive, but the Ministry of Finance does not want to. Who is fooling who now? Are the nurses not included in section 6 of the Labour Act , Freedom of Association? – Concerned Nurse, Ongwediva.Tailender* WHY is the light always at the end of the tunnel?Food For Thought * CAN the Ministry of Health set up a toll-free number where we can report retailers that are selling expired food. * THE current labour unrest in our country denotes a need to employ labour relations officers. Public and private employers please do something as unions have lost focus. – Concerned taxpayer, Windhoek Bouquets And Brickbats * THANKS to Namcol, the 11 learners of Berseba will write Grade 10. Thank you Mr Minister. * MAYBE The Namibian must submit a paper on citizen journalism because of the SMS service you provide us. Thank you for the great service.* NAMIBIAN newspaper, why don’t you terminate your biased SMS page in your daily editions? You are quick to place only SMSes against Swapo or ministers, but not against the opposition parties. – PAPS – Swapo and the ministers represent the Government, which has a big majority in Parliament, and plays the major role in running Namibia. As such they receive the largest number of comments and messages, both positive and critical. – Newsdesk * KEEP up the good work of telling it like it is, especially on the SMS Of The Day because not only are they highly informative, they also trigger more action from different community leaders. There is no need to tune from one radio station to another because most of the important events will be surely be on the SMS of the Day. – Ndaafetwa * PEOPLE have turned this page into a war zone. Can we name the last SMS headline “a point to ponder” and write something positive for the day? – We hear you! See Tailender at the end of this page. Hope we will get regular contributions. – Newsdesk * THE Weekender is serious, it’s not the same anymore. Maybe you have a shortage of creativity. Spice it up more.* BIG compliments to the Walvis Bay Police. Crime has dropped sufficiently.In And From The Regions * FROM Katima: NSHR please assist us, are you observing a free trial in the Caprivi treason trial? * OUTAPI Police please try being on the road on Fridays. Those taxi drivers race like maniacs, putting the passengers’ lives in danger. – Nsungwe * PLEASE make Vaalgras a village. That is the place where the first Swapo office was built in this country, but they have become marginalised.* MAY the Ministry of Safety and Security improve the nature of the public toilet at Ondangwa Police Station. It has a very bad smell, it may cause some serious sickness to a human being. – Shamukolondo * THE Ministry of Home Affairs workers at Ondangwa please do your job. Where were you on September 27? After lunch you came to the office at 14h30 instead of 14h00. You are being paid for that time you wasted. There are many jobless people in need of the same position to serve the nation better than you.* I’M calling on the Swapo leadership to start instructing or evaluate the activities of their local authority councillors. I’m a Swapo card-carrying member at Ondangwa but our own Swapo councillors are letting our party down. How long will the residents live in this town without street names, without street lights and those that are there are not maintained. Those are simple things that do not need a lot of money. There are no tarred roads, just dust everywhere which is a health hazard for our kids.* WE at Dam-a-tsaus have a serious water shortage. We took it up with Rural Water Supply Karibib and even with the Regional Councillor, but nothing happened. Please we need help * KARIBIB Rural Water Supply what’s so difficult? We are just 35 km away but we are suffering without water for two months now. Please water is life. Provide a service. Dam-a-tsaus please do something. We are suffering without water.Politics * PEOPLE who are constantly complaining about no development, no water and electricity, etc, after 18 years are really making me sick. Your vote, which is only your secret, counts and can make a difference. So stop complaining and start with changes yourself.* I REGULARLY read whatever on political parties. One question: why are those least performing at work the most vocal against their comrades in Swapo? I never heard Dr Amadhila or Iyambo (both), Kawana, Meme Ndaitwah, Mrs Sara Amadhila, Mr Toivo, Mutorwa, … advising to cut tails of their countrymen! But listen to Hon Ekandjo, Mungunda, Com Kaaronda, Ngurare whose bad performance has cost billions! Is the hate speech linked to low performance? Please help.* I WAS very ashamed to hear the Speaker of the National Assembly refusing to speak his Damara/Nama language (saying he is a servant of the GRN ) at a Damara/Nama festival. Other politicians speak their language in their place.* I AM very disappointed with the Namibian Government lawmakers! It is totally irresponsible of them not to turn up for important sessions and that meetings are cancelled because of no quorum!! That is shameful.* HERE in Tobias Hainyeko Constituency we RDP members are called ‘Omaama’ an Omusati word meaning ‘Cannibal’.* TOBIAS Hainyeko by-election is around the corner. I am suggesting that any political party which makes uncalled-for statements, uses intimidation tactics or tries to buy votes by slaughtering six cattle should be chased away from the election. – Kamati * HOW can Swapo justify why RDP members are not allowed to move in Tobias Hainyeko without intimidation and harassment. Why do we have to go under police escort at all times in the country of our birth and for which we equally fought and our own relatives died.Shebeens * ON alcohol abuse and lawlessness in Karas. Name and shame the barons who feed our youth with alcohol.* NO one is forced to go for alcohol, you can close the shebeens but we can still go to clubs or legal bars and drink with the same behaviour. Please Reverend Kameeta go and close Namibia Breweries and stop them from supplying alcohol to the nation. The Church is part of your job and you get bread and money from it, we are getting a living from shebeens. If you’ve got other jobs for us, then you are free to close our shebeens. – KM General * I AM calling upon whoever’s responsible for noise pollution. We residing in Okuryangava suffer badly from noise made by my party members, Swapo to be specific, at late hours of the night. We need to rest at night. – Alvin * HOW sad to have had Xmas decorations up in the shops in September! By Xmas they will be dusty and spoilt and not even noticed anymore. Why not wait until December so that Xmas can have the sparkle it deserves instead of jaded commercialism? A Street By Any Other Name * OMURAMBA Street: No problem naming new streets after African heroes, but big problem ignoring cities’ own procedures and re-naming established streets without consulting affected residents and ratepayers. * NAMIBIANS you have more than enough heroes and non-heroes named after streets and the like here. Ai! This freedom of speech, especially when exercised for the sake of it. I’m worried about our citizens scavenging dustbins, empty slogans, the poor losing houses, the elderly walking to GIPF or else….Nature’s Call * IT beats me how Government wants to construct toilets along roads while towns such as Aus still have the bucket system.* MR President please do us a favour and fire the minister who wants to put toilets on the roadside. Appoint a new minister who can put toilets at Okahandja Park and Havana.* TOILETS along the National Road Network: Those who are criticising Minister Helmut Angula of Works and Transport for transparently consulting the public on the possibility of erecting toilets along the National Road Network as directed by Cabinet should think before attacking him as a single Minister and in his personal capacity. What he is doing is implementing a Cabinet directive task to him by Cabinet in his capacity as the Minister responsible for transport that includes the National Road Network. For toilets in Okahandja Park or other locations suggested by some SMSes as the ideal places that the Minister should have considered, in this case the Cabinet would have directed the Minister of Regional, Local Government, Housing and Rural Development to engage Local Authorities, Municipalities and Village Councils. In the case of the toilets along the National Road Network, the Minister of Works and Transport has engaged the Roads Authority which has a mandate of managing the National Road Network on behalf of the Ministry of Works and Transport.Education * MINISTRY of Education, please do research at schools such as Dagbreek and Môreson and see how many kids are on the waiting list. Our kids are left out every year because of limited place. – Christy, Concerned Parent * MINISTRY of Education! Please pay teachers for all what they do. The responsibility for a teacher is to ‘teach’ and nothing else.Hear it please.Otherwise these additional tasks must be remunerated too.* I REALLY wonder why the entry age for Grade 1 is seven years. For an example, my daughter’s date of birth is in February, so it means she’ll have to wait another full year and then be enrolled at the age of eight years, and finish school at 20. What a waste of time. I started Sub A at six and matriculated at 17 years. Ministry of Education please use common sense.* COULD the MoE give the statistics on the Grade 10 repeaters before the end the academic year? Or where did the money go? * THE Ministry of Education must change the style of setting an English exam! They only ask those things from overseas (articles). We are Namibians and we know it as a whole. Please we don’t want to fail any more. – Grade 12 learner * AT Eembahu Combined School in Ohangena Region, Eenhana Circuit learners who cannot pay school development funds have their names read at assembly so that other learners can laugh! Health Matters * THE term “life-prolonging” has always been used even before HIV came. It has been largely, widely used for HIV treatment given the epidemic nature, high death rates and stigmatisation associated with the disease. It is not the doctors attempting to mislead anyone, because anyone can use it.- Dr M Service Please! * OSHIKANGO Pick ‘n Pay please do something. You are selling spoiled food, especially bread and eggs. – Concerned Regular Customer Labour Issues * UNFAIR recruitment in the South. Let me view my point when it comes to us the youth in the south. We who schooled here are on the streets, but the youths coming from the central and northern parts are the ones who are employed in the mines here. So we will just remain on the streets of Luederitz. What about us who schooled here in the south. Once we apply for employment in the north, there is no response to the application.* IS freedom of association only on paper? Why do Napwu and the Ministry of Finance not want nurses to resign from Napwu claiming that there is a system that cannot be changed. Nanu increased the monthly contribution fee from N$20 to N$40 last year, but till now its only subsidised institutions such as Catholic Health Services who have implemented the Nanu directive, but the Ministry of Finance does not want to. Who is fooling who now? Are the nurses not included in section 6 of the Labour Act , Freedom of Association? – Concerned Nurse, Ongwediva. Tailender * WHY is the light always at the end of the tunnel?