SMSes of the Day : Thursday

**-THE fact that the country is experiencing a shortage of nursing staff has resulted in some nurses developing a don’t-care attitude.

They are very much aware that they are in demand, so everybody must dance to their tune. They are hardly disciplined or held accountable for their actions.If you want to experience the brutality of our nurses, go to the hospital when they are about to change shifts.They will leave you unattended for the incoming nurses, even when they have a whole hour before they knock off.The fact that the baby’s mother went to the hospital around 18h00 already put her child’s life at risk. **- I AM truly horrified that the Government continues to issue prospecting licences for uranium.Australia has far bigger reserves and better grade ore than we do and they only allow three uranium mines to operate at any one time.So what do they know that we don’t? We destroy scenic areas vital to our tourist routes and promise electricity and water we don’t have.What on earth are we going to tell our grandchildren? Perhaps that we used to have tourism and uranium but now only Australia and Canada have them? **- IT is high time that all import tax and VAT are dropped from solar power equipment so that we can afford to install it and stop paying the high electricity tariffs Food for thought **- OUR history shapes our worldview, our interpretation of events and our actions! If there are aspects of Ovakwanyama history I have misrepresented, point that out! – The Citizen **- ‘HOSPITAL under fire over baby’s snake-bite death’ – The whole community is guilty because of the first-come-first-serve culture.Anywhere you go it is the same mentality of our society.Please don’t victimise the health workers for the bad habit of first-come-first-serve irrespective of last person’s problem.May Almighty God help us to use common sense where needed.- Mubasen Tsibeb **- THE media’s effort to raise funds for flood victims is laudable.To use a picture of a luxury lodge being flooded because the idiots built it in a riverbed defeats the object.Just because the picture is visually appealing doesn’t justify its use.This is a humanitarian plea so use appropriate visuals.- Peter **- IT seems to me some people are really enjoying the fruits of freedom.This guy is a former minister, current Director General of National Planning Commission, commercial farmer, shareholder in diamond mining, shareholder in a granite mining company and I don’t know what else.Please Sir, live and let live.We have to share the cake, it is too small and we are too many.- Moss **- SEEING Tanzanian women welcoming George W Bush dressed in cloth with Bush’s photo on their buttocks made me feel sick.What is wrong with us Africans? What other race will insult its women to be abused like that all in the name of so-called African hospitality? Where are the women’s liberation groups? Thank you **- MRS Bracht and the Cat Protection Society you are doing a great job.Thank you for your dedication! – A cat lover Politics in general **- ALL the political parties in Namibia which are formed based on ethnic or tribal origin will find it hard to rule Namibia.Namibia needs a national party like Swapo. **- ACC and your proponents be informed that although Namibians want speedy investigations of corruption cases, they also know the difference between genuine investigation and lightning speed exoneration engineered to allow influential politicians to go around insulting RDP politicians as if they were holy cows.The question was, and still is: how did the Attorney General get the contract from her former PA? **- WHAT happened to the decent, dignified and most loved Hage Geingob? Nowadays he is reduced to a political lapdog, with confrontational and confusing utterances everywhere he goes, about anyone.Is he perhaps being groomed for a certain position and thence has to toe the line? Talk of politics of the belly? **- I WISH to advise Dr Geingob to keep the “house/field nigger” talk he picked up in the USA there.One wonders why the former and the current PM are politically excited.Are they jealous after a long reflection and soul searching.Please get this: Most if not all those 18 years and older youth at Eenhana, as elsewhere, particularly in the North need not hear obsolete lectures on the struggle for Independence since they either lived through it all, or they got first-hand information from the former fighters.They want you guys to tell them how the misery presided over by Swapo such as inequalities, poor education, intellectophobia, corruption, nepotism, poverty, unemployment, scary health system, grand waste of scarce public resources, name callings and vilifications will end. **- A NEW ambassador, another man again from the North.President Hifikepunye Pohamba are there no able women or men from other ethnic groups in Namibia to be appointed in these positions? **- THE elections will be held next year and l will only vote for the party that is prepared to revolutionise the banking sector.Eighty per cent of the land is owned by commercial banks and the politicians see no problem with that.When are we going to pay off our houses in five years’ time? ln reality we don’t own the houses but renting them for a ludicrous 20 years’ rent.Politicians do something to liberate us from these bloodsuckers called commercial banks. **- THE RDP members, supporters and sympathisers in Omundaungilo constituency in the Ohangwena Region are intimidated, ridiculed, belittled and threatened by Swapo members.What is disturbing is that the people behind all these provocations are high-ranking and responsible officials in Government such as teachers, a nurse and some principals in the vicinity of Omundaungilo village who buy gallons of home-brewed tombo for mobs, whom they command to terrorise everybody who is believed to have connections with RDP.Strangely, the police at Omundaungilo are aware of all these provocations, but don’t do anything about it.Believe me or not if nothing is done to address this situation, the blood of innocent Namibians is likely to be spilled unnecessarily.- Concerned citizen.Education **- IT’S not just HoDs who are not fluent in English, principals are also not.It’s a total disgrace up here in the North.It’s just a competition about cars, houses and fences, things that are not really relevant or stimulating to a small child’s brain.Their nails are so long and dirty, with dirty artificial hair, sometimes they just drive around instead of teaching.A total revamp is needed here. **- UNAM is making nursing students suffer.What are you doing with our NSFAF (Government study loan scheme) refund? We need that money while it’s early so that we can buy prescribed books, because not all of us can afford them.Please respond immediately! **- MINISTER Of Education I know you went into the shoes of your predecessor, who planned that learners who are overage should not be allowed to repeat any grade, but only allowed the young ones to repeat a phase once.As a result they will be called Grade 10 failures, while they have failed throughout and just get automatic promotion.Can you please change this. **- THE idea of schools for repeaters for both grade 10 and 12 makes sense! The teachers who are unemployed both newly qualified and experienced as well as retired teachers will get a job and put their skill and talents to good use.The learners will have a formal fulltime school and be off the streets.Special emphasis will be on remedial classes to cater for learners with difficulties due to various reasons.Let’s not plan to fail nor fail to plan. **- CAN’T we adopt the education system used in other African countries such as Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe? Their students studying at our tertiary institutions are performing better than Namibians.I guess something is wrong with our foundation, the lower grades. **- KHOMAS Regional Education office, please reveal the results of the investigation about the irregularities and corruption practices at Khomastura High School in 2007.Some of us left but the said irregularities continued and still continue as if there was no investigation.Madam Tjikuua we hope to hear from you before things get out of control.Health woes **- WE live in an unsafe nation.A doctor is assaulted by a patient and sustains a skull fracture but it’s not newsworthy.A nurse is choked by a patient that is also not newsworthy as they were doing their work.Health workers live in perpetual fear of being attacked on duty and the nation turns a blind eye.- Perhaps it’s because these incidents have not been brought to the public or media’s attention.- Newsdesk **- WHAT kind of people take the “To serve and to protect” oath and leave the vulnerable to their mercy? What more must happen before we can act. **- MR Richard Kamwi (Health Minister) and Ms Petrina Haingura (Deputy Minister), you better resign from your positions or compensate in full for the life of the snake-bitten baby.The nation has never seen such rotten attitude and incompetence before. **- I FULLY agree with those who condemn the behaviour of nurses at Katutura Hospital.But you Namibians are funny.The day you come to realise that one of the nurses responsible is your relative, your girlfriend or your husband you will want to quieten the complainants.Why are you like that? It is correct that they deserved to be blamed, but blame them even when you know their identities.Proper socialisation is also important to prevent such behaviour, which some Namibian parents neglect. **- I CAN’T say the nurses and doctor killed the baby but I’m touched by the way these people are colonising and oppressing the people in our country.If it was money we would have asked for a commission of enquiry.We must remember that our lives are also dear no matter how poor we are. **- IT is a shame that Richard Kamwi pronounced the snake-bite incident where the baby died as unfortunate as reported by the NBC.President Pohamba please sack him, there is no room for incompetence. **- PLEASE Nanu, we nurses are tired of being overworked at Katutura State Hospital casualty.As our union we want you to solve this issue.That’s why terrible things are happening.Why is the Windhoek Central Hospital casualty closed? **- IF you go to a clinic or a Police station the queues are extremely long but the nurses are very slow and some are even aggressive and mistreating people.The Government is paying them and if they feel that their salaries are low then they should complain to the authorities.From the regions **- WE the learners of Okanimekwa thank the Outapi Town Council for donating computers to the school.But our question is – when will the electricity be connected for us to use our computers? Please Mr Shileka do your work as a councillor of the whole Outapi constituency. **- WHEN was the price for Government forms determined? At Walvis Bay, Kuisebmond Police Station in particular, Government officials are selling the Government employment application forms for N$2,60 to apparently compensate for the use of copy papers and the maintenance of the copy machine! **- CAN THE Okaku constituency councillor tell us when the electricity at Oneshoko village and Omulumba will be connected? The electricity poles that were put up sometime ago are just decorations for the community.We want electricity. **- I WANT an answer from the Oniipa councillor on when the pipeline of Onandjokwe-Oshigambo is going to benefit all people.Some of us have been waiting since 2006 for our taps to be connected but every time we go to the councillor’s office we are told to wait. **- I WANT an answer from the councillor of Ongwediva constituency on when Omaalala village will get electricity.Please help us – we are tired of making fire everyday because the electricity is just at the shebeens.Mr Fikameni please do something. **- OMATAKO council, please we are sick and tired of the shebeens that are operating 24 hours, especially the one close to the school.Learners don’t sleep because of the loud music.Please do something.General **- I AM deeply disappointed in our City Police for locking up innocent children.It’s a violation of their rights.They are not capable of putting the real criminals behind bars. **- THE Namibian newspaper was there, is here and will be there.Your contribution to the disaster fund is once again testimony to your true patriotism.I have never doubted your commitment to the social upliftment of all Namibians.Truly our relationship with The Namibian cannot be dictated to us by whoever.Keep on telling it like it is, we are with you. **- YES to media freedom.No to ‘guided’ Media Council.No media control or veiled censorship.Lift the ban on The Namibian newspaper, now.Enough is enough!! **- THE taxi fare will increase by 8% from N$6,50 to N$7.Will the civil servant’s transport allowance remain N$198 (which is already not enough), or will it similarly increase by 8% to $214, which is still too little still? Why can’t Government match income with the living standard? That’s why it loses people to the private sector.—-They are hardly disciplined or held accountable for their actions.If you want to experience the brutality of our nurses, go to the hospital when they are about to change shifts.They will leave you unattended for the incoming nurses, even when they have a whole hour before they knock off.The fact that the baby’s mother went to the hospital around 18h00 already put her child’s life at risk. **- I AM truly horrified that the Government continues to issue prospecting licences for uranium.Australia has far bigger reserves and better grade ore than we do and they only allow three uranium mines to operate at any one time.So what do they know that we don’t? We destroy scenic areas vital to our tourist routes and promise electricity and water we don’t have.What on earth are we going to tell our grandchildren? Perhaps that we used to have tourism and uranium but now only Australia and Canada have them? **- IT is high time that all import tax and VAT are dropped from solar power equipment so that we can afford to install it and stop paying the high electricity tariffs Food for thought **- OUR history shapes our worldview, our interpretation of events and our actions! If there are aspects of Ovakwanyama history I have misrepresented, point that out! – The Citizen **- ‘HOSPITAL under fire over baby’s snake-bite death’ – The whole community is guilty because of the first-come-first-serve culture.Anywhere you go it is the same mentality of our society.Please don’t victimise the health workers for the bad habit of first-come-first-serve irrespective of last person’s problem.May Almighty God help us to use common sense where needed.- Mubasen Tsibeb **- THE media’s effort to raise funds for flood victims is laudable.To use a picture of a luxury lodge being flooded because the idiots built it in a riverbed defeats the object.Just because the picture is visually appealing doesn’t justify its use.This is a humanitarian plea so use appropriate visuals.- Peter **- IT seems to me some people are really enjoying the fruits of freedom.This guy is a former minister, current Director General of National Planning Commission, commercial farmer, shareholder in diamond mining, shareholder in a granite mining company and I don’t know what else.Please Sir, live and let live.We have to share the cake, it is too small and we are too many.- Moss **- SEEING Tanzanian women welcoming George W Bush dressed in cloth with Bush’s photo on their buttocks made me feel sick.What is wrong with us Africans? What other race will insult its women to be abused like that all in the name of so-called African hospitality? Where are the women’s liberation groups? Thank you **- MRS Bracht and the Cat Protection Society you are doing a great job.Thank you for your dedication! – A cat lover Politics in general **- ALL the political parties in Namibia which are formed based on ethnic or tribal origin will find it hard to rule Namibia.Namibia needs a national party like Swapo. **- ACC and your proponents be informed that although Namibians want speedy investigations of corruption cases, they also know the difference between genuine investigation and lightning speed exoneration engineered to allow influential politicians to go around insulting RDP politicians as if they were holy cows.The question was, and still is: how did the Attorney General get the contract from her former PA? **- WHAT happened to the decent, dignified and most loved Hage Geingob? Nowadays he is reduced to a political lapdog, with confrontational and confusing utterances everywhere he goes, about anyone.Is he perhaps being groomed for a certain position and thence has to toe the line? Talk of politics of the belly? **- I WISH to advise Dr Geingob to keep the “house/field nigger” talk he picked up in the USA there.One wonders why the former and the current PM are politically excited.Are they jealous after a long reflection and soul searching.Please get this: Most if not all those 18 years and older youth at Eenhana, as elsewhere, particularly in the North need not hear obsolete lectures on the struggle for Independence since they either lived through it all, or they got first-hand information from the former fighters.They want you guys to tell them how the misery presided over by Swapo such as inequalities, poor education, intellectophobia, corruption, nepotism, poverty, unemployment, scary health system, grand waste of scarce public resources, name callings and vilifications will end. **- A NEW ambassador, another man again from the North.President Hifikepunye Pohamba are there no able women or men from other ethnic groups in Namibia to be appointed in these positions? **- THE elections will be held next year and l will only vote for the party that is prepared to revolutionise the banking sector.Eighty per cent of the land is owned by commercial banks and the politicians see no problem with that.When are we going to pay off our houses in five years’ time? ln reality we don’t own the houses but renting them for a ludicrous 20 years’ rent.Politicians do something to liberate us from these bloodsuckers called commercial banks. **- THE RDP members, supporters and sympathisers in Omundaungilo constituency in the Ohangwena Region are intimidated, ridiculed, belittled and threatened by Swapo members.What is disturbing is that the people behind all these provocations are high-ranking and responsible officials in Government such as teachers, a nurse and some principals in the vicinity of Omundaungilo village who buy gallons of home-brewed tombo for mobs, whom they command to terrorise everybody who is believed to have connections with RDP.Strangely, the police at Omundaungilo are aware of all these provocations, but don’t do anything about it.Believe me or not if nothing is done to address this situation, the blood of innocent Namibians is likely to be spilled unnecessarily.- Concerned citizen. Education **- IT’S not just HoDs who are not fluent in English, principals are also not.It’s a total disgrace up here in the North.It’s just a competition about cars, houses and fences, things that are not really relevant or stimulating to a small child’s brain.Their nails are so long and dirty, with dirty artificial hair, sometimes they just drive around instead of teaching.A total revamp is needed here. **- UNAM is making nursing students suffer.What are you doing with our NSFAF (Government study loan scheme) refund? We need that money while it’s early so that we can buy prescribed books, because not all of us can afford them.Please respond immediately! **- MINISTER Of Education I know you went into the shoes of your predecessor, who planned that learners who are overage should not be allowed to repeat any grade, but only allowed the young ones to repeat a phase once.As a result they will be called Grade 10 failures, while they have failed throughout and just get automatic promotion.Can you please change this. **- THE idea of schools for repeaters for both grade 10 and 12 makes sense! The teachers who are unemployed both newly qualified and experienced as well as retired teachers will get a job and put their skill and talents to good use.The learners will have a formal fulltime school and be off the streets.Special emphasis will be on remedial classes to cater for learners with difficulties due to various reasons.Let’s not plan to fail nor fail to plan. **- CAN’T we adopt the education system used in other African countries such as Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe? Their students studying at our tertiary institutions are performing better than Namibians.I guess something is wrong with our foundation, the lower grades. **- KHOMAS Regional Education office, please reveal the results of the investigation about the irregularities and corruption practices at Khomastura High School in 2007.Some of us left but the said irregularities continued and still continue as if there was no investigation.Madam Tjikuua we hope to hear from you before things get out of control. Health woes **- WE live in an unsafe nation.A doctor is assaulted by a patient and sustains a skull fracture but it’s not newsworthy.A nurse is choked by a patient that is also not newsworthy as they were doing their work.Health workers live in perpetual fear of being attacked on duty and the nation turns a blind eye.- Perhaps it’s because these incidents have not been brought to the public or media’s attention.- Newsdesk **- WHAT kind of people take the “To serve and to protect” oath and leave the vulnerable to their mercy? What more must happen before we can act. **- MR Richard Kamwi (Health Minister) and Ms Petrina Haingura (Deputy Minister), you better resign from your positions or compensate in full for the life of the snake-bitten baby.The nation has never seen such rotten attitude and incompetence before. **- I FULLY agree with those who condemn the behaviour of nurses at Katutura Hospital.But you Namibians are funny.The day you come to realise that one of the nurses responsible is your relative, your girlfriend or your husband you will want to quieten the complainants.Why are you like that? It is correct that they deserved to be blamed, but blame them even when you know their identities.Proper socialisation is also important to prevent such behaviour, which some Namibian parents neglect. **- I CAN’T say the nurses and doctor killed the baby but I’m touched by the way these people are colonising and oppressing the people in our country.If it was money we would have asked for a commission of enquiry.We must remember that our lives are also dear no matter how poor we are. **- IT is a shame that Richard Kamwi pronounced the snake-bite incident where the baby died as unfortunate as reported by the NBC.President Pohamba please sack him, there is no room for incompetence. **- PLEASE Nanu, we nurses are tired of being overworked at Katutura State Hospital casualty.As our union we want you to solve this issue.That’s why terrible things are happening.Why is the Windhoek Central Hospital casualty closed? **- IF you go to a clinic or a Police station the queues are extremely long but the nurses are very slow and some are even aggressive and mistreating people.The Government is paying them and if they feel that their salaries are low then they should complain to the authorities. From the regions **- WE the learners of Okanimekwa thank the Outapi Town Council for donating computers to the school.But our question is – when will the electricity be connected for us to use our computers? Please Mr Shileka do your work as a councillor of the whole Outapi constituency. **- WHEN was the price for Government forms determined? At Walvis Bay, Kuisebmond Police Station in particular, Government officials are selling the Government employment application forms for N$2,60 to apparently compensate for the use of copy papers and the maintenance of the copy machine! **- CAN THE Okaku constituency councillor tell us when the electricity at Oneshoko village and Omulumba will be connected? The electricity poles that were put up sometime ago are just decorations for the community.We want electricity. **- I WANT an answer from the Oniipa councillor on when the pipeline of Onandjokwe-Oshigambo is going to benefit all people.Some of us have been waiting since 2006 for our taps to be connected but every time we go to the councillor’s office we are told to wait. **- I WANT an answer from the councillor of Ongwediva constituency on when Omaalala village will get electricity.Please help us – we are tired of making fire everyday because the electricity is just at the shebeens.Mr Fikameni please do something. **- OMATAKO council, please we are sick and tired of the shebeens that are operating 24 hours, especially the one close to the school.Learners don’t sleep because of the loud music.Please do something. General **- I AM deeply disappointed in our City Police for locking up innocent children.It’s a violation of their rights.They are not capable of putting the real criminals behind bars. **- THE Namibian newspaper was there, is here and will be there.Your contribution to the disaster fund is once again testimony to your true patriotism.I have never doubted your commitment to the social upliftment of all Namibians.Truly our relationship with The Namibian cannot be dictated to us by whoever.Keep on telling it like it is, we are with you. **- YES to media freedom.No to ‘guided’ Media Council.No media control or veiled censorship.Lift the ban on The Namibian newspaper, now.Enough is enough!! **- THE taxi fare will increase by 8% from N$6,50 to N$7.Will the civil servant’s transport allowance remain N$198 (which is already not enough), or will it similarly increase by 8% to $214, which is still too little still? Why can’t Government match income with the living standard? That’s why it loses people to the private sector.—-