SMSes of the Day : Thursday

* ‘CATCH the train. Be on time’ reads the advertisement on page 6 of yesterday’s The Namibian. What happened to truth in advertising? * DID you know that a dog is a human being’s best friend and protects you day and night and it deserves a proper burial – Julia Doeses Food for thought

* IF the Minister (Jerry Ekandjo) is still an emerging farmer, I would like to know how long one is an emerging farmer … five, 10, 15 years? – K2 * STOCK the river (Kavango) with crocodiles. That’ll stop the illegal fishing!* HOW is the present process of globalisation different from the process of colonisation?The answer is simple. During the colonisation, the colonisers kept themselves in power mainly on the basis of their military power. In the era of globalisation the same colonisers are once again evident but this time their hold on power is based mainly on their control of global finance, trade, politics, media and advancements in science and technology. Therefore,despite the fact that the present process of globalisation looks like the outgrowth of neo-colonialism, in reality it is a process of ‘recolonisation’.* ONLY governments without any vision like the one in Namibia or in Zimbabwe can heavily tax their farmers and make them to give up their business.Congratulations and thanks* Thanks THE DOGG for being SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE. Paying the education fees of an ORPHAN is an exceptional deed that can benefit the nation at large. Long live THE DOGG, Long live MSHASHO. – Beckham, Polytech, Whk* THANK you Nored for supplying us with electricity at Ompundja. We will now be able to do some welding projects to bring development. – Benedictor N Shikongo* I JUST want to congratulate the under-16 Namibian Hockey team for their excellent performance during the hockey games against Botswana and Zimbabwe. Keep making us proud, especially to Angeline Kuvare. – Vitjitua Katjimune, OTT* Thank you The Namibian for continuing to tell it like it is. We will always support you even when those NC members who don’t want you, and we know they read The Namibian because they want to know what’s in there. They are shy to admit defeat – keep it up! General* DEAR Madam Justice Minister, the reason why the courts are in the terrible state is because young talented Magistrates are leaving because incompetent and under qualified senior magistrates have reached their ceiling and can no longer be promoted. As a result all others below them remain at that level irrespective of qualifications with no prospect of promotion.* WHERE are our musicians? The guys who founded Ndilimani in Angola are musical maestros. They composed sweet melodies of a high standard. After Independence they resurfaced and called themselves Minus 4 but disappeared again. We are suffocating with copied music. Pamo, Amos, Banana, Cheeta, Danny if you don’t have instruments, we’ll raise funds for you. Please can someone bring them together. – Nostalgia* WHY do the big corporate companies like MTC and others keep on pouring millions into sports when some of that money could be used for social welfare for the poor ie shelters for the homeless, soup kitchens etc?* UNAM Radio, why are you no longer linking to Voice of America? What is going on? You are only playing music. Since this week we haven’t been able to listen to our favourite programme ‘Daybreak Africa’. What is your problem? Please tell us. – Lahya* TO the young recruits of City Police Crime Prevention and Traffic divisions, please change your attitude because you guys don’t have respect at all. Do your job but show respect to the public.* WHY are soldiers forced to stay in the base. Those guys have kids and families to look after. Give them rent and housing allowance to work from home. Military chiefs live in military guest houses, what about us? Think of others.* TELECOM Namibia cleaners’ jobs hang in balance. So I call upon Napwu to do the same as they had done in the case of one individual worker, certain Ms Klein. I strongly believe that those cleaners are all members of Napwu like Ms Klein.* CITY of Windhoek we need electricity in Otjomuise Extension 8 because three houses burnt down recently by candle light. We will thank you. – J Vries From the regions* FIRE AT OMAUNI: I was listening to NBC Oshiwambo Radio (Tuesday) announcing urgent news that a fire has erupted in Omauni Community Forest. I’m not surprised to hear that news. On August 30-31 2007, I was at Okanyandi. I met farmers complaining about tigers (eengwe) killing their cattle. One farmer suggested that they burn the veld to scare tigers away. I tried to encourage them to kill predators rather than burning. Tigers, hyenas and wild dogs are said to be breeding in the Omauni quarantine area. Others are across from the Namibia-Angolan borders. Hon Governor, your farmers know of two options: keeping grass or burn it to scare predators? Why not hunting down the beasts rather than turning arsonists? It is not the first time that fire break out. Are there fire belts? Are they prohibited to hunt and kill predators? Try to find a solution. Farmers must be aware of their acts and options available. – Nakashimba* LIVESTOCK farmers in areas where flood victims were relocated need to be assisted. The relocation puts pressure on grazing. Now the locals have to buy supplements, an unfamiliar practice. Some animals have already died due to the shortage of grazing. Thanks for the new drought resolution. But please subsidise the purchase of supplements here because most of the animals cannot make it to quarantine camps. – Sinvula* A MINISTRY with phones cut off for months (Whk)? Customers must bring telecards if their services need inter-offices communication. No customer service skills i.e. answering phone(Eenhana). Processing of birth certificates take three months or more. This is The Ministry of Home Affairs. What is going on with my GRN?* CRIME rate in the North (Ongwediva and Oshakati) has been increasing rapidly. What is being done about it? Or is this a new culture in the North? I’ve witnessed people getting shot, stabbed, attacked with all sorts of weapons and in all this incidents I had never seen the Police. Do they even exist? Does one have to buy a gun for protection? I’m fed up. We can’t continue like this.* BECAUSE 60 per cent of the population live here in the North there is a great need for an international airport at Eenhana or Ondangwa for people to travel easily to and from the outside world. Such a facility will increase trade and interaction. Therefore as a Christmas gift this year, uplift one airport here to international status.* PAY your TV licence it’s the right thing to do. Mr Kandetu are you aware that we don’t get NBC reception at Usakos for the past about two months? If its like that why are we paying TV licences in Usakos? We don’t even listen to the radio can anybody tell me what is going on in Usakos? – Ndeshi* MAIL Boxes at EENHANA. I request our Eenhana post office master to put more post boxes at Eenhana town, because there’s a shortage of PVT Boxes. We want to have our own mail boxes but they are never available when we enquire. This is very urgent! – ‘JH’ (Eenhana)* I FEEL so sorry for local fishermen at Walvis Bay. Please wake up and smell AIDS! AIDS is real and it kills! Use condoms when visiting brothels. Open your eyes!* IT’S pathetic. Young ladies at Opuwo go to clubs without money and they exchange sex for beer. – Guluva ‘Tsotsi’ S’gebengu.Politics in general* FOR far too long, people in our beloved country have voted for political parties based on nostalgia and not on the content of the party’s aims or the actions whilst in power. Do you really believe Swapo regulating all forms of media is good for our political system and will help us achieve Vision 2030, it is not. So I cannot stand OUR political climate where the NSHR is threatened to be regulated, where freedom of speech may be regulated, where the elected leader forgets those who elected him.* THE Combatants: dear Editor, please allow me a space in your newspaper. I’m straight to my point concerning the former combatants of Plan. All of us know the bitter, hard work, and more over the physical injuries, wounds and life sacrifices made by our sons and daughters. Those still alive amongst us are reeling under poverty. Is it because of jealousy that people are blocking the compensation we are suppose to get. Money is everything in this world. Please give them money now! Namibia will not be the first to compensate its fighters. Even Britain, Germany and America, whom you fear and love praised their fighters and rewarded them with money, but here we are just jealous, greedy and just talk about democracy. Money will never be enough please leaders hurry up – do it!* The incompetence and brutality of some of the Swapo Plan generals and many other over ambitious leaders of the Party during the liberation struggle are what brought it’s leader Sam Nujoma into trouble today. The generals and some political leaders are the ones to answer.- Binga* ARE the Hereros not part of Namibia? Why are they having their own Heroes Day at Okahandja.* PLEASE people of Namibia let the truth prevail. Allow Ya Nangoloh to be free. We are tired of corruption. – Helao from Rehoboth* FOR the American human rights first organisation telling our President to withdraw statements made about Phil Ya Nangoloh. Just a piece of advice, tell your imperial government to stop with the massacres in Afghanistan and Iraq. Also stop with your efforts to destabilise peaceful countries by sponsoring conflicts worldwide.* THE time has come for Africa to start doing the right things, yes with history of the past in mind. Let’s not give our leaders the chance to hang on to the power of the state by using propaganda like racist remarks that only a fool can believe, e.g. the problems in Zim are caused by the west. The time has come for Africans to be able to run their affairs with honesty, integrity and with ethnic impartiality. This is but one way people of this great continent can prosper to greater heights of economic growth and development. SADC leaders need to condemn what is happen in Zim because it is going to affect our economic growth as a region. – Myles Logan, SADC citizen* DEAR Deputy Prime Minister, could you please assist our Hai //om San people with free and fair elections. The majority of us don’t like Mr Dawid Khamuxab as our chief. He was not fairly elected and this issue will create conflicts in the planned resettlement farms.Herero Mall* HERERO mall: Words of thanks to the Windhoek Municipal for taking us out of the dark through lighting up the mall.* HERERO mall: Why should someone expect our mall to be like Maerua Mall, while you know there is no such development? The mall is a business place during the day and entertainment at night, so let it be so and we will keep on enjoying our free time there as long as the municipality keeps our lights on.Security Guards* SECURITY guards are not respected and earn the lowest of wages. When are we going to get a salary of over N$900 a month? We are just stuck at six hundred bucks. We have mothers and fathers who need our help. How can we assist them if we are suffering as well? Employers buy new cars every month but they do not want to pay us. They say if you give dog more food it can not bark.* HERE at a Tsumeb security services company we are only paid N$500 month, and we have schoolgoing children for whom we have to pay school fees. What do the managers of security think? Guards stand together, we pay membership fees. – Rubicon workers.* VIVA the unions – don’t give up the fight for us. We work many hours for little money. What is 41 cents (an hour) increase. Make it N$1,41 we also want to smile like domestic workers.* STOCK the river (Kavango) with crocodiles. That’ll stop the illegal fishing! * HOW is the present process of globalisation different from the process of colonisation?The answer is simple. During the colonisation, the colonisers kept themselves in power mainly on the basis of their military power. In the era of globalisation the same colonisers are once again evident but this time their hold on power is based mainly on their control of global finance, trade, politics, media and advancements in science and technology. Therefore,despite the fact that the present process of globalisation looks like the outgrowth of neo-colonialism, in reality it is a process of ‘recolonisation’.* ONLY governments without any vision like the one in Namibia or in Zimbabwe can heavily tax their farmers and make them to give up their business.Congratulations and thanks * Thanks THE DOGG for being SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE. Paying the education fees of an ORPHAN is an exceptional deed that can benefit the nation at large. Long live THE DOGG, Long live MSHASHO. – Beckham, Polytech, Whk * THANK you Nored for supplying us with electricity at Ompundja. We will now be able to do some welding projects to bring development. – Benedictor N Shikongo * I JUST want to congratulate the under-16 Namibian Hockey team for their excellent performance during the hockey games against Botswana and Zimbabwe. Keep making us proud, especially to Angeline Kuvare. – Vitjitua Katjimune, OTT * Thank you The Namibian for continuing to tell it like it is. We will always support you even when those NC members who don’t want you, and we know they read The Namibian because they want to know what’s in there. They are shy to admit defeat – keep it up! General * DEAR Madam Justice Minister, the reason why the courts are in the terrible state is because young talented Magistrates are leaving because incompetent and under qualified senior magistrates have reached their ceiling and can no longer be promoted. As a result all others below them remain at that level irrespective of qualifications with no prospect of promotion.* WHERE are our musicians? The guys who founded Ndilimani in Angola are musical maestros. They composed sweet melodies of a high standard. After Independence they resurfaced and called themselves Minus 4 but disappeared again. We are suffocating with copied music. Pamo, Amos, Banana, Cheeta, Danny if you don’t have instruments, we’ll raise funds for you. Please can someone bring them together. – Nostalgia * WHY do the big corporate companies like MTC and others keep on pouring millions into sports when some of that money could be used for social welfare for the poor ie shelters for the homeless, soup kitchens etc? * UNAM Radio, why are you no longer linking to Voice of America? What is going on? You are only playing music. Since this week we haven’t been able to listen to our favourite programme ‘Daybreak Africa’. What is your problem? Please tell us. – Lahya * TO the young recruits of City Police Crime Prevention and Traffic divisions, please change your attitude because you guys don’t have respect at all. Do your job but show respect to the public.* WHY are soldiers forced to stay in the base. Those guys have kids and families to look after. Give them rent and housing allowance to work from home. Military chiefs live in military guest houses, what about us? Think of others.* TELECOM Namibia cleaners’ jobs hang in balance. So I call upon Napwu to do the same as they had done in the case of one individual worker, certain Ms Klein. I strongly believe that those cleaners are all members of Napwu like Ms Klein.* CITY of Windhoek we need electricity in Otjomuise Extension 8 because three houses burnt down recently by candle light. We will thank you. – J Vries From the regions * FIRE AT OMAUNI: I was listening to NBC Oshiwambo Radio (Tuesday) announcing urgent news that a fire has erupted in Omauni Community Forest. I’m not surprised to hear that news. On August 30-31 2007, I was at Okanyandi. I met farmers complaining about tigers (eengwe) killing their cattle. One farmer suggested that they burn the veld to scare tigers away. I tried to encourage them to kill predators rather than burning. Tigers, hyenas and wild dogs are said to be breeding in the Omauni quarantine area. Others are across from the Namibia-Angolan borders. Hon Governor, your farmers know of two options: keeping grass or burn it to scare predators? Why not hunting down the beasts rather than turning arsonists? It is not the first time that fire break out. Are there fire belts? Are they prohibited to hunt and kill predators? Try to find a solution. Farmers must be aware of their acts and options available. – Nakashimba * LIVESTOCK farmers in areas where flood victims were relocated need to be assisted. The relocation puts pressure on grazing. Now the locals have to buy supplements, an unfamiliar practice. Some animals have already died due to the shortage of grazing. Thanks for the new drought resolution. But please subsidise the purchase of supplements here because most of the animals cannot make it to quarantine camps. – Sinvula * A MINISTRY with phones cut off for months (Whk)? Customers must bring telecards if their services need inter-offices communication. No customer service skills i.e. answering phone(Eenhana). Processing of birth certificates take three months or more. This is The Ministry of Home Affairs. What is going on with my GRN? * CRIME rate in the North (Ongwediva and Oshakati) has been increasing rapidly. What is being done about it? Or is this a new culture in the North? I’ve witnessed people getting shot, stabbed, attacked with all sorts of weapons and in all this incidents I had never seen the Police. Do they even exist? Does one have to buy a gun for protection? I’m fed up. We can’t continue like this.* BECAUSE 60 per cent of the population live here in the North there is a great need for an international airport at Eenhana or Ondangwa for people to travel easily to and from the outside world. Such a facility will increase trade and interaction. Therefore as a Christmas gift this year, uplift one airport here to international status.* PAY your TV licence it’s the right thing to do. Mr Kandetu are you aware that we don’t get NBC reception at Usakos for the past about two months? If its like that why are we paying TV licences in Usakos? We don’t even listen to the radio can anybody tell me what is going on in Usakos? – Ndeshi * MAIL Boxes at EENHANA. I request our Eenhana post office master to put more post boxes at Eenhana town, because there’s a shortage of PVT Boxes. We want to have our own mail boxes but they are never available when we enquire. This is very urgent! – ‘JH’ (Eenhana) * I FEEL so sorry for local fishermen at Walvis Bay. Please wake up and smell AIDS! AIDS is real and it kills! Use condoms when visiting brothels. Open your eyes! * IT’S pathetic. Young ladies at Opuwo go to clubs without money and they exchange sex for beer. – Guluva ‘Tsotsi’ S’gebengu.Politics in general * FOR far too long, people in our beloved country have voted for political parties based on nostalgia and not on the content of the party’s aims or the actions whilst in power. Do you really believe Swapo regulating all forms of media is good for our political system and will help us achieve Vision 2030, it is not. So I cannot stand OUR political climate where the NSHR is threatened to be regulated, where freedom of speech may be regulated, where the elected leader forgets those who elected him.* THE Combatants: dear Editor, please allow me a space in your newspaper. I’m straight to my point concerning the former combatants of Plan. All of us know the bitter, hard work, and more over the physical injuries, wounds and life sacrifices made by our sons and daughters. Those still alive amongst us are reeling under poverty. Is it because of jealousy that people are blocking the compensation we are suppose to get. Money is everything in this world. Please give them money now! Namibia will not be the first to compensate its fighters. Even Britain, Germany and America, whom you fear and love praised their fighters and rewarded them with money, but here we are just jealous, greedy and just talk about democracy. Money will never be enough please leaders hurry up – do it! * The incompetence and brutality of some of the Swapo Plan generals and many other over ambitious leaders of the Party during the liberation struggle are what brought it’s leader Sam Nujoma into trouble today. The generals and some political leaders are the ones to answer.- Binga * ARE the Hereros not part of Namibia? Why are they having their own Heroes Day at Okahandja.* PLEASE people of Namibia let the truth prevail. Allow Ya Nangoloh to be free. We are tired of corruption. – Helao from Rehoboth * FOR the American human rights first organisation telling our President to withdraw statements made about Phil Ya Nangoloh. Just a piece of advice, tell your imperial government to stop with the massacres in Afghanistan and Iraq. Also stop with your efforts to destabilise peaceful countries by sponsoring conflicts worldwide.* THE time has come for Africa to start doing the right things, yes with history of the past in mind. Let’s not give our leaders the chance to hang on to the power of the state by using propaganda like racist remarks that only a fool can believe, e.g. the problems in Zim are caused by the west. The time has come for Africans to be able to run their affairs with honesty, integrity and with ethnic impartiality. This is but one way people of this great continent can prosper to greater heights of economic growth and development. SADC leaders need to condemn what is happen in Zim because it is going to affect our economic growth as a region. – Myles Logan, SADC citizen * DEAR Deputy Prime Minister, could you please assist our Hai //om San people with free and fair elections. The majority of us don’t like Mr Dawid Khamuxab as our chief. He was not fairly elected and this issue will create conflicts in the planned resettlement farms.Herero Mall * HERERO mall: Words of thanks to the Windhoek Municipal for taking us out of the dark through lighting up the mall. * HERERO mall: Why should someone expect our mall to be like Maerua Mall, while you know there is no such development? The mall is a business place during the day and entertainment at night, so let it be so and we will keep on enjoying our free time there as long as the municipality keeps our lights on.Security Guards * SECURITY guards are not respected and earn the lowest of wages. When are we going to get a salary of over N$900 a month? We are just stuck at six hundred bucks. We have mothers and fathers who need our help. How can we assist them if we are suffering as well? Employers buy new cars every month but they do not want to pay us. They say if you give dog more food it can not bark.* HERE at a Tsumeb security services company we are only paid N$500 month, and we have schoolgoing children for whom we have to pay school fees. What do the managers of security think? Guards stand together, we pay membership fees. – Rubicon workers.* VIVA the unions – don’t give up the fight for us. We work many hours for little money. What is 41 cents (an hour) increase. Make it N$1,41 we also want to smile like domestic workers.