SMSes of the Day : Tuesday

* MR AJAM’S article has reference (The Namibian, November 2 2007). The general public is made to believe that State-Owned Enterprises are there to benefit us. The Social Security benefits are dwarfed by the high salaries of staff, the recent 30 per cent bonus of the MVA chiefs totalling about N$2 million compared to the peanuts paid to accident victims, inaccessible NWR to the majority of Namibians, NamPower, NamWater, the list goes on. It is time for a strong civic society to not only stand up for the current social retrogression but fight for mere survival. Politics have failed us.

* I WANT to ask the Chief Medical Officer of Opuwo and the PMO of Khorixas whether one needs to attach a copy of your party membership card on an application form for Government jobs. I have reliably learned that the Personnel Office staff at Opuwo asked candidates for jobs as cleaners at recent interviews to which party they belonged. I think ACC must start to investigate these corrupt practices. * THIS goes out to the matrons of the Noabe Primary School in Okahandja. Please matrons, stop eating Government food meant for hostel children. You got your own monthly salaries and our kids don’t have that and solely depend on Government for food. Please stop doing this, our kids are starving.Food for thought* COMRADE Speaker, can you please establish a Parliamentary Portfolio Standing Committee for each ministry to investigate, summon any official, including the minister, to answer to any allegations and matters of national interest e.g. the falling down of public health. The minister and his team should be called to explain why hospitals are dirty and cleaners only work for two hours on full pay. Surprise visits and roll calls will help.* MINISTER of Education, Nangolo Mbumba, I salute your effort for the implementation of national standard and performance indicators in Namibian schools. That’s indeed a great effort towards the realisation of Vision 2030! However, will rural schools with no permanent classroom structures, electricity, water, lack of textbooks, stationery, desks and chairs and lack of support staff be excluded in this effort? If not, deploy all those resources to all schools in the country equally, not only to the former whites-only schools i.e. in Windhoek and Swakopmund. We also want to contribute towards this effort!* ELIPHAS Khaoseb and his king J //Garoëb only call the Damaras for 10 November but forget to talk about events such as the war of 1904 and the history of the Damaras in general, such as the issue of the Damaras who were sold as slaves in 1710 by the British . We want to hear the history of the Damaras and not the closed-door meeting of UDF in Okombahe where J //Garoëb’s term as UDF president will be extended by another five years.Politics in general* MR Nyamu you are a true leader. A visionary son of the soil who should be followed and honoured for the new party that will help us to challenge the Swapo Party.* LET all unhappy Swapo members rally behind Nyamu and his new party. This a party for disgruntled Swapo members – Nelson* IT’S official. Welcome Rally for Democracy and Progress to the political fold. That is democracy at work. Comrade Jesaya Nyamu, you are a democrat and a hero. What you did is the right thing to do. Let them talk while you are acting! I’m supporting you Comrade. Fear no one.* ALL the Damaras are not UDF and UDF must know not all the Damaras support UDF. Meeting on November 10 under the flag – blue, white and green – is used by UDF in a wrong way. We can’t talk about the unity of the Damaras on a platform where we cannot bring together all the Damara traditional leaders and I think we should start next year.* OUR motto is: One Namibia, One Nation. One People, One aim. No colour differences. There was no Damara or Oshiwambo Swapo, for Swapo is meant to be one. If you are a Damara Swapo, please play by the rules and not along tribal lines. Swapo hates tribalism. The choice is yours to join the liberal minded Damaras at the upcoming Damara annual festivals at /Â #gomes. Other non-Damara personalities will be there notwithstanding the flag and its colours. Be there you too.* TALKING, talking and more talking, this is how I describe the Pohamba and Angula administration. Please tell us how do we access the N$600 million from Germany, we are hungry and angry for you leaders. For God sake stop talking and smooth talking, please let us know when we can get help. Put up community banks, turn Nampost into a bank and give us soft loans, we want to do something for ourselves, the banks are not helpful, they are South Africans.From the regions* SOCIAL behaviour of the youth in Outjo town is really out of control. Three youths were involved in alcohol-related crime at the weekend. One was run over by a car, one stabbed with a knife, one almost lost one of his eyes, his face cut to pieces. Now my question is what are parents, church leaders, councillors and the Police doing? It seems there is no consultation between these institutions regarding this social evil of alcohol abuse. Why is it a normal thing to see a group of Damara/Nama-speaking boys walking down the street with a five-litre box of wine with okapi knives bulging from their pockets? While I’m wondering about my tribesmen’s upbringing, it’s inevitable not to call for a review of laws pertaining to alcohol availability, especially to the youth. As for Outjo things aren’t right with the youth, socially.* ARE the Okathitu/Elondo people not part of the nation? Why should they not have road infrastructure like others, whom the writer of the SMS who took Mr Katoma to task for talking about the construction of a road from Ondukuta, Okathiu and Elondo because this road “will not serve the nation” at large. As a resident of this area I feel this writer wants to deprive us of a basic service that we asked our counsellor Mr Katoma to plan for. People in these areas during the rain season find it difficult to go to hospitals or clinics for that matter.* CONGRATULATIONS to the RCC. The roads between Outjo, Khorixas, Kamanjab and Okaukojo are clean as well as the rest sides. Let us keep our environment clean.Keep it up!* I AM disturbed by the naked corrupt practices still taking place in Namibia. There is a research station in Caprivi at Sachinga, which resorts under the Ministry of Agriculture. The recruitment process at this institution is confusing. Just imagine the sons and daughters of the indunas are given preference when it comes to employment opportunities. To make matters worse all wives of senior staff members at this development centre are employed as cleaners without any interviews conducted as required. It is time that the Government steps in and fire these quarks who are running this centre or rather transfer them somewhere. Mr Noa, send your investigators to this centre to establish if these allegations are not true and if you give employment to your wives it is not tantamount to corruption in the public service.* COUNCILLOR of Mpungu constituency, we are tired of your favouritism. How can you give one person two farm portions whilst others did not even get a bit. We are tired of this corruption, please tell us what criteria you used for dishing out these farm portions. If not you should stop telling people to move from the land on which they live. – LSH* WHY is the Ministry of Environment and Tourism ignoring some of its employees? Most of its employees have been 20 to 30 years’ service, a lot of practical and theoretical experience, but still holding positions they obtained before Independence. Policies are tightened to prevent any promotion for the staff under the management cadre, while other ministries such as Police, Defence and Health who deal with the nation’s wellbeing and human lives promote their members based on experience. Our call go straight to State House as it is long overdue. MET should change its outdated policies. The disgruntled staffs are from RANGER position downwards. They are the ones confronted by the communities on a daily basis when wild animals come in conflict of any nat
ure with a man.* I AM a resident from Etope, Ohangwena Region and very concerned about the water in the Omulonga constituency. The water is very unhygienic because it comes from waterholes and it is unsuitable for human and animal consumption. Therefore I would like to ask our councillor, Anna Kufu when the Onambutu pipeline is going to reach us at Etope Village. The pipeline was supposed to reach us this year in April, but it stopped at Ombango Village. Please we urgently need clean water.General* MR Shopati and your Nanu president, we want you to explain to all nurses why it takes Nanu two years to resolve the overtime issue. Because sources told us that you and your president were promised high positions in Government in exchange for you to drag this issue for as long as possible. Is this not corruption?* IT’S not surprising at all to hear that Colonel Iyambo of 125 Battalion treating his subordinates inhumanely, because he recently got promoted and given a unit without attending any leadership course like staff courses. Please NDF commanders give a chance to those who can work better and make progress.* IN response to an article by the writer who challenged the abilities of traditional doctors. My friend, traditional healers can do miracles. Simply convince the Government to enact a law that will allow them to practise like any modern doctor. I trust that they can trace the serial killer who is taking innocent lives in our country.* CITY Police are nowhere to be found when needed. Are the City Police not supposed to patrol the city in the evening till early morning hours? Katutura is not safe after seven in the evening. Please do something, we are even unsafe in our own houses. Young men own the streets at this time, walking in small groups, with pangas and guns and their mission is: “You give cash and cellphones, and if you don’t you are dead.”* MTC must stop robbing people! If it costs 40 cent to send an SMS, then why is 90 cents credit insufficient to send an SMS? MTC is milking us. – Joe Mukwahepo* I WOULD like to know why one can’t cancel studies at UOL and even when you cancel they keep deducting from your salary.* I AM an Okahandja resident and am unhappy with the way in which the Ministry of Defence conducted its recruitment last month. No advertisements for vacancies were placed. If you don’t have relatives there forget about getting job in Government. There is corruption in the way people are recruited into Government, only the sons, daughters and relatives of those in the system are recruited into the service.* PLEASE Mr Kahuure come with Mr Paulus Noa and your auditors to Windhoek Central Hospital, the highest level of corruption is taking place there. Overtime, racism, unfairness, spending thousands of public funds on ordinary meetings outside WHK, etc. Seniors are never in the offices during normal working hours from eight to five, they only start working after five to work overtime, seniors are claiming overtime on their original notches, while they were budgeted as juniors just to be approved by the PS. One senior who is on probation is not confirmed yet, but she is working overtime and orders new furniture, while the people that were on the original budget list of overtime are not. Where is her overtime coming from? Bus tickets went missing a few months ago but no one was found guilty, case is closed.* PUBLIC advertisements: When is NAMIBIA BEVERAGES going to announce the winner(s) for the cash for numbers competition? It is sickening how corporate entities are allowed to rob us of our hard-earned cash, yet nobody says anything.On the ball* NATIONAL team soccer players who worked hard to qualify for the African Nations Cup are capable of delivering the desired results. Why are those who performed poorly and those who even abandoned the team now want to come back after they saw the team qualified. They should stay away and do what they can do best. The national team is for hard workers and those ready to fight till the last minute, but not for showing faces. Please, the so-called big names must not destroy soccer in the country.* IS Barry Rukoro the new coach of the Brave Warriors? If not, leave comments on the team’s performance to the coach.* THIS goes out to the matrons of the Noabe Primary School in Okahandja. Please matrons, stop eating Government food meant for hostel children. You got your own monthly salaries and our kids don’t have that and solely depend on Government for food. Please stop doing this, our kids are starving.Food for thought * COMRADE Speaker, can you please establish a Parliamentary Portfolio Standing Committee for each ministry to investigate, summon any official, including the minister, to answer to any allegations and matters of national interest e.g. the falling down of public health. The minister and his team should be called to explain why hospitals are dirty and cleaners only work for two hours on full pay. Surprise visits and roll calls will help.* MINISTER of Education, Nangolo Mbumba, I salute your effort for the implementation of national standard and performance indicators in Namibian schools. That’s indeed a great effort towards the realisation of Vision 2030! However, will rural schools with no permanent classroom structures, electricity, water, lack of textbooks, stationery, desks and chairs and lack of support staff be excluded in this effort? If not, deploy all those resources to all schools in the country equally, not only to the former whites-only schools i.e. in Windhoek and Swakopmund. We also want to contribute towards this effort! * ELIPHAS Khaoseb and his king J //Garoëb only call the Damaras for 10 November but forget to talk about events such as the war of 1904 and the history of the Damaras in general, such as the issue of the Damaras who were sold as slaves in 1710 by the British . We want to hear the history of the Damaras and not the closed-door meeting of UDF in Okombahe where J //Garoëb’s term as UDF president will be extended by another five years.Politics in general * MR Nyamu you are a true leader. A visionary son of the soil who should be followed and honoured for the new party that will help us to challenge the Swapo Party.* LET all unhappy Swapo members rally behind Nyamu and his new party. This a party for disgruntled Swapo members – Nelson * IT’S official. Welcome Rally for Democracy and Progress to the political fold. That is democracy at work. Comrade Jesaya Nyamu, you are a democrat and a hero. What you did is the right thing to do. Let them talk while you are acting! I’m supporting you Comrade. Fear no one.* ALL the Damaras are not UDF and UDF must know not all the Damaras support UDF. Meeting on November 10 under the flag – blue, white and green – is used by UDF in a wrong way. We can’t talk about the unity of the Damaras on a platform where we cannot bring together all the Damara traditional leaders and I think we should start next year.* OUR motto is: One Namibia, One Nation. One People, One aim. No colour differences. There was no Damara or Oshiwambo Swapo, for Swapo is meant to be one. If you are a Damara Swapo, please play by the rules and not along tribal lines. Swapo hates tribalism. The choice is yours to join the liberal minded Damaras at the upcoming Damara annual festivals at /Â #gomes. Other non-Damara personalities will be there notwithstanding the flag and its colours. Be there you too.* TALKING, talking and more talking, this is how I describe the Pohamba and Angula administration. Please tell us how do we access the N$600 million from Germany, we are hungry and angry for you leaders. For God sake stop talking and smooth talking, please let us know when we can get help. Put up community banks, turn Nampost into a bank and give us soft loans, we want to do something for ourselves, the banks are not helpful, they are South Africans.From the regions * SOCIAL behaviour of the youth in Outjo town is really out of control. Three youths were involved in alcohol-related crime at the weekend. One was run over by a car, one stabbed with a knife, one almost lost one of his eyes, his face cut to pieces. Now my question is what a
re parents, church leaders, councillors and the Police doing? It seems there is no consultation between these institutions regarding this social evil of alcohol abuse. Why is it a normal thing to see a group of Damara/Nama-speaking boys walking down the street with a five-litre box of wine with okapi knives bulging from their pockets? While I’m wondering about my tribesmen’s upbringing, it’s inevitable not to call for a review of laws pertaining to alcohol availability, especially to the youth. As for Outjo things aren’t right with the youth, socially.* ARE the Okathitu/Elondo people not part of the nation? Why should they not have road infrastructure like others, whom the writer of the SMS who took Mr Katoma to task for talking about the construction of a road from Ondukuta, Okathiu and Elondo because this road “will not serve the nation” at large. As a resident of this area I feel this writer wants to deprive us of a basic service that we asked our counsellor Mr Katoma to plan for. People in these areas during the rain season find it difficult to go to hospitals or clinics for that matter.* CONGRATULATIONS to the RCC. The roads between Outjo, Khorixas, Kamanjab and Okaukojo are clean as well as the rest sides. Let us keep our environment clean.Keep it up! * I AM disturbed by the naked corrupt practices still taking place in Namibia. There is a research station in Caprivi at Sachinga, which resorts under the Ministry of Agriculture. The recruitment process at this institution is confusing. Just imagine the sons and daughters of the indunas are given preference when it comes to employment opportunities. To make matters worse all wives of senior staff members at this development centre are employed as cleaners without any interviews conducted as required. It is time that the Government steps in and fire these quarks who are running this centre or rather transfer them somewhere. Mr Noa, send your investigators to this centre to establish if these allegations are not true and if you give employment to your wives it is not tantamount to corruption in the public service.* COUNCILLOR of Mpungu constituency, we are tired of your favouritism. How can you give one person two farm portions whilst others did not even get a bit. We are tired of this corruption, please tell us what criteria you used for dishing out these farm portions. If not you should stop telling people to move from the land on which they live. – LSH * WHY is the Ministry of Environment and Tourism ignoring some of its employees? Most of its employees have been 20 to 30 years’ service, a lot of practical and theoretical experience, but still holding positions they obtained before Independence. Policies are tightened to prevent any promotion for the staff under the management cadre, while other ministries such as Police, Defence and Health who deal with the nation’s wellbeing and human lives promote their members based on experience. Our call go straight to State House as it is long overdue. MET should change its outdated policies. The disgruntled staffs are from RANGER position downwards. They are the ones confronted by the communities on a daily basis when wild animals come in conflict of any nature with a man.* I AM a resident from Etope, Ohangwena Region and very concerned about the water in the Omulonga constituency. The water is very unhygienic because it comes from waterholes and it is unsuitable for human and animal consumption. Therefore I would like to ask our councillor, Anna Kufu when the Onambutu pipeline is going to reach us at Etope Village. The pipeline was supposed to reach us this year in April, but it stopped at Ombango Village. Please we urgently need clean water.General * MR Shopati and your Nanu president, we want you to explain to all nurses why it takes Nanu two years to resolve the overtime issue. Because sources told us that you and your president were promised high positions in Government in exchange for you to drag this issue for as long as possible. Is this not corruption? * IT’S not surprising at all to hear that Colonel Iyambo of 125 Battalion treating his subordinates inhumanely, because he recently got promoted and given a unit without attending any leadership course like staff courses. Please NDF commanders give a chance to those who can work better and make progress.* IN response to an article by the writer who challenged the abilities of traditional doctors. My friend, traditional healers can do miracles. Simply convince the Government to enact a law that will allow them to practise like any modern doctor. I trust that they can trace the serial killer who is taking innocent lives in our country.* CITY Police are nowhere to be found when needed. Are the City Police not supposed to patrol the city in the evening till early morning hours? Katutura is not safe after seven in the evening. Please do something, we are even unsafe in our own houses. Young men own the streets at this time, walking in small groups, with pangas and guns and their mission is: “You give cash and cellphones, and if you don’t you are dead.”* MTC must stop robbing people! If it costs 40 cent to send an SMS, then why is 90 cents credit insufficient to send an SMS? MTC is milking us. – Joe Mukwahepo * I WOULD like to know why one can’t cancel studies at UOL and even when you cancel they keep deducting from your salary.* I AM an Okahandja resident and am unhappy with the way in which the Ministry of Defence conducted its recruitment last month. No advertisements for vacancies were placed. If you don’t have relatives there forget about getting job in Government. There is corruption in the way people are recruited into Government, only the sons, daughters and relatives of those in the system are recruited into the service.* PLEASE Mr Kahuure come with Mr Paulus Noa and your auditors to Windhoek Central Hospital, the highest level of corruption is taking place there. Overtime, racism, unfairness, spending thousands of public funds on ordinary meetings outside WHK, etc. Seniors are never in the offices during normal working hours from eight to five, they only start working after five to work overtime, seniors are claiming overtime on their original notches, while they were budgeted as juniors just to be approved by the PS. One senior who is on probation is not confirmed yet, but she is working overtime and orders new furniture, while the people that were on the original budget list of overtime are not. Where is her overtime coming from? Bus tickets went missing a few months ago but no one was found guilty, case is closed.* PUBLIC advertisements: When is NAMIBIA BEVERAGES going to announce the winner(s) for the cash for numbers competition? It is sickening how corporate entities are allowed to rob us of our hard-earned cash, yet nobody says anything.On the ball * NATIONAL team soccer players who worked hard to qualify for the African Nations Cup are capable of delivering the desired results. Why are those who performed poorly and those who even abandoned the team now want to come back after they saw the team qualified. They should stay away and do what they can do best. The national team is for hard workers and those ready to fight till the last minute, but not for showing faces. Please, the so-called big names must not destroy soccer in the country.* IS Barry Rukoro the new coach of the Brave Warriors? If not, leave comments on the team’s performance to the coach.