SMSes of the day : Tuesday

* LIFE is a gift from God, that’s why we are all not the same, therefore those who are given the opportunity to lead others should not use it to colonise others. I am referring to those top dogs who enrich themselves. Stop that and be faithful to your nation as you have sworn. – Sean E

* MR Hakaye (Jhonny, National Council member) hasn’t read the manual. The people and Constitution have created both the Government and The Namibian’s SMS forum. The Government is a product of the people, not vice versa. * IT’S absurd that Unam would cancel Prof John Makumbe’s lecture ostensibly to avoid offending our Zim “friends” yet in Zimbabwe he is a fully fledged lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe itself a State university which pays his salary etc. Really weird Whose Democracy?* WHEN you have law makers spending time trying to table a bill to ban SMSes in The Namibian, there is a severe encroachment on democracy! Law makers need to act cautiously not impulsively! – Joe.* THE Namibian newspaper contributed immensely for supporting Swapo before and after Independence. Their offices where even burnt down for telling the truth, they had done a good job in promoting democracy, educate us to know our rights, that’s why they are popular. Now Swapo Cabinet wants to regulate it – who’s fooling who? This is not socialist country.* OUR lawmakers should make laws to fight crime rather than MEDIA. Journalists do not make NEWS, they collect news. We must stop blaming the media for our own deeds. It’s us who make news and not the newspapers.* MR Jhonny Hakaye stated “we will not disappoint who we are representing” in the National Council. I must remind him that the people he is “representing” are not just Swapo or its supporters. He also represents individuals who are not Swapo supporters. He represents all Namibians and their freedoms. But it does seem like he is ignorant of what and who he truly represents. So let’s make this clear to him: You represent Namibians – not only your party and not only your supporters. If Swapo wants war, then try to take away our freedoms. We fought oppressors before, we will do it again. VIVA A FREE NAMIBIA!Politics in General* OUR MPs only remember we exist when elections are coming then they disappear until the next election. They make promises and nothing is ever done. A time will come when people get wise and stop voting for you. – Americo* THE DEATH OF DEMOCRACY? During Heroes Day, Minister Nangolo Mbumba read a message from The Tanganyika Group as saying, “Sam Nujoma is ours. We, The Tanganyika Group, know how to put our (military) uniform. So Comrade Nujoma, you are in good hands,” assured Mbumba. So, the bazookas, machine guns, barrel and ‘pack and go’ are a tradition of Nujoma loyalists. Mr Mbumba, do you have any idea of the ‘enforced disappearance’ or ‘missing persons’?* I AM very impressed with Fluksman Samuehl’s article. It is sad that people of his calibre had to quit politics. We are only left with politicians engaging in belly politics.* HONOURABLE Speaker: Please draw the attention of the National Assembly to the fact that Namibia needs a written policy of national reconciliation. 17 years are enough for a nation to deceive itself and the world! Pull up your socks and act on it now!* DR Sam Nujoma, I wonder why you’ve wasted your years for fighting for a country that doesn’t deserve you at all. You fought for their freedom of speech but that’s a mistake you’ll regret. If history could be repeated I would have advised you not to go to war. Mr Nujoma some Namibians are not enjoying the Independence and peace you fought for.* THE enemies of African states are not their colonial masters, it’s their brothers and sisters. So, Namibians, let’s watch out our actions. – G-Martin, Karasburg* COMMENT on civilian casualties in Namibia’s liberation struggle. Were there no liberation struggle casualties in southern Namibia? From the Regions* A DUSK to dawn curfew has been declared for the villagers in Caprivi because of elephants. How will this work out? Learners have to start early for school some five to seven kilometres away and farmers also need to prepare their fields some seven to 10 kilometres away from their homesteads. Does this mean that villagers and their school going children must be moved into a refuge camp till its safe for them to return. – MK SILIMWE* PLEASE do something about the doctor shortage at Engela hospital. Ohangwena is one of the most populated regions but we feel we are being neglected compared to other regions. Engela hospital staff please keep up the good work.* DEAR victim from Omuthiya! ETSIP is meant to address those problems in Education! – Nahas* “HOW can we help you” – FNB. Please help us with an ATM at Kuisebmond. We have only one ATM. We are tired of standing in the queues for two hours. – Yours truly FNB customer* PLEASE help, we need Bank Windhoek to give us one ATM at LUEDERITZ. We customers of this bank are suffering. – N Andreas* STANDARD Bank Namibia, I believe the time and weather is correct to provide a service similar or even better than IN-CONTACT, currently used by FNB customers. I believe that u can do it. Yes,we appreciate you.* I WANT to comment on the Bergsig-Palmwag road. The road has very bad turn-offs and steep sides which have taken many lives. I think lives will be saved if that road is widened or if something is done for more safety. – Natasha from Kamanjab.Thanks* THANK you for publishing a story on the common origin of humankind and our movements across the globe (The Weekender, Friday, August 24). The study should be required reading for all our leaders. I look forward to a follow up on some Namibians who have taken National Geographic’s DNA test, and what it revealed. – Hugh Ellis* I CONGRATULATE the Ministry of Environment and Tourism for a job well done all over the country. This is a very important Ministry. Please consider places where we are understaffed like Mariental, Otjiwarongo and others to fill vacancies and promoting long serving personnel for more effective and efficient service delivery. Our tourists need a friendly environment and a peace of mind while investing in our country. The establishment of conservancies, lodges. Rest camps, NWR, NTB, Makalani, Arts and Gemstone sellers are all for self employment through tourism. Let us embrace our tourists instead of harassing or killing them. They are our lifelong valuable monetary assets. We need each other in good and bad times. – M.T.* I REALLY enjoy Dudley’s cartoons in The Namibian. They are very humorous and so informative! Keep it up! – Joe* THANK you very much comrade President for emphasising in detail the national issues which every Namibian need to know and understand during your keynote address to the nation at Eenhana on the 26 August of the country’s Heroes Day. – W JohnGeneral* PLEASE Mr Kandetu think of deaf citizens when broadcasting national events such as Heroes Day because they’re also TV licence holders and want to benefit the full service and not only boring news and useless Talk of Nation. – LH Ubiteb* THE Government needs to institute performance appraisals for the senior staff. One can’t help but wonder what the so called financial adviser in the Ministry of Health is doing.* IS it really fair to evict farmworkers from farms if they spent already more than half a century there like the people of Marburg and others and what about church farms? Are those farms an exemption to the law?* EVEN though Namibia’s Rugby Team is full of whites, I love it because it puts Namibia on the world map. The management should continue with hard work. – Sir Silas Nande, Eenhana* DOES the Government have the intention of having 99 per cent of all sea going personnel being Namibians by 2010? Why do they allow fishing companies to recruit foreigners, while there are Namibians with the same qualification.ICC issue* DEMOCRATIC Namibians can we watch the words that we say to our leaders. Who are you to tell the President to also pack if he can’t stand criticism? Can you throw back words to your father in the house or why do you have to answer back to the President like that? Every country has leaders and they are respected by their fellow countrymen and women. Let us keep our cultural respect that our parents taught us, so that we can pass them to our children.* HAS anyone noticed how quiet the opposition has been on the ICC issue? I reckon Ya Nangoloh should start his own party. At least he has the balls to take on the big guns. – Edwin B* SWAPO did the usual thing to suppress the truth. You will regret another lost opportunity to settle the detainee issue once and forever.* I JUST want to say that the Unam SRC doesn’t speak for the majority of students when it comes to the ICC issue. The same leadership of the SRC is afraid to address real issues affecting students like the compulsory breakfast!* I WANT to raise a complain about the bad things people say of the Founding Father. Why do we have to forget what he did for us. Remember the good things he did for us. Nujoma will not go down no matter what people say.* MR Ya Nangoloh please stop digging in the past. Don’t try and open old wounds – it’s of no use. The main issues in Namibia are peace and stability, nation building and striving for Vision 2030. What you are doing is dividing the nation.* IT’S absurd that Unam would cancel Prof John Makumbe’s lecture ostensibly to avoid offending our Zim “friends” yet in Zimbabwe he is a fully fledged lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe itself a State university which pays his salary etc. Really weird Whose Democracy? * WHEN you have law makers spending time trying to table a bill to ban SMSes in The Namibian, there is a severe encroachment on democracy! Law makers need to act cautiously not impulsively! – Joe.* THE Namibian newspaper contributed immensely for supporting Swapo before and after Independence. Their offices where even burnt down for telling the truth, they had done a good job in promoting democracy, educate us to know our rights, that’s why they are popular. Now Swapo Cabinet wants to regulate it – who’s fooling who? This is not socialist country.* OUR lawmakers should make laws to fight crime rather than MEDIA. Journalists do not make NEWS, they collect news. We must stop blaming the media for our own deeds. It’s us who make news and not the newspapers.* MR Jhonny Hakaye stated “we will not disappoint who we are representing” in the National Council. I must remind him that the people he is “representing” are not just Swapo or its supporters. He also represents individuals who are not Swapo supporters. He represents all Namibians and their freedoms. But it does seem like he is ignorant of what and who he truly represents. So let’s make this clear to him: You represent Namibians – not only your party and not only your supporters. If Swapo wants war, then try to take away our freedoms. We fought oppressors before, we will do it again. VIVA A FREE NAMIBIA! Politics in General * OUR MPs only remember we exist when elections are coming then they disappear until the next election. They make promises and nothing is ever done. A time will come when people get wise and stop voting for you. – Americo * THE DEATH OF DEMOCRACY? During Heroes Day, Minister Nangolo Mbumba read a message from The Tanganyika Group as saying, “Sam Nujoma is ours. We, The Tanganyika Group, know how to put our (military) uniform. So Comrade Nujoma, you are in good hands,” assured Mbumba. So, the bazookas, machine guns, barrel and ‘pack and go’ are a tradition of Nujoma loyalists. Mr Mbumba, do you have any idea of the ‘enforced disappearance’ or ‘missing persons’? * I AM very impressed with Fluksman Samuehl’s article. It is sad that people of his calibre had to quit politics. We are only left with politicians engaging in belly politics.* HONOURABLE Speaker: Please draw the attention of the National Assembly to the fact that Namibia needs a written policy of national reconciliation. 17 years are enough for a nation to deceive itself and the world! Pull up your socks and act on it now! * DR Sam Nujoma, I wonder why you’ve wasted your years for fighting for a country that doesn’t deserve you at all. You fought for their freedom of speech but that’s a mistake you’ll regret. If history could be repeated I would have advised you not to go to war. Mr Nujoma some Namibians are not enjoying the Independence and peace you fought for.* THE enemies of African states are not their colonial masters, it’s their brothers and sisters. So, Namibians, let’s watch out our actions. – G-Martin, Karasburg * COMMENT on civilian casualties in Namibia’s liberation struggle. Were there no liberation struggle casualties in southern Namibia? From the Regions * A DUSK to dawn curfew has been declared for the villagers in Caprivi because of elephants. How will this work out? Learners have to start early for school some five to seven kilometres away and farmers also need to prepare their fields some seven to 10 kilometres away from their homesteads. Does this mean that villagers and their school going children must be moved into a refuge camp till its safe for them to return. – MK SILIMWE * PLEASE do something about the doctor shortage at Engela hospital. Ohangwena is one of the most populated regions but we feel we are being neglected compared to other regions. Engela hospital staff please keep up the good work.* DEAR victim from Omuthiya! ETSIP is meant to address those problems in Education! – Nahas * “HOW can we help you” – FNB. Please help us with an ATM at Kuisebmond. We have only one ATM. We are tired of standing in the queues for two hours. – Yours truly FNB customer * PLEASE help, we need Bank Windhoek to give us one ATM at LUEDERITZ. We customers of this bank are suffering. – N Andreas * STANDARD Bank Namibia, I believe the time and weather is correct to provide a service similar or even better than IN-CONTACT, currently used by FNB customers. I believe that u can do it. Yes,we appreciate you.* I WANT to comment on the Bergsig-Palmwag road. The road has very bad turn-offs and steep sides which have taken many lives. I think lives will be saved if that road is widened or if something is done for more safety. – Natasha from Kamanjab.Thanks * THANK you for publishing a story on the common origin of humankind and our movements across the globe (The Weekender, Friday, August 24). The study should be required reading for all our leaders. I look forward to a follow up on some Namibians who have taken National Geographic’s DNA test, and what it revealed. – Hugh Ellis * I CONGRATULATE the Ministry of Environment and Tourism for a job well done all over the country. This is a very important Ministry. Please consider places where we are understaffed like Mariental, Otjiwarongo and others to fill vacancies and promoting long serving personnel for more effective and efficient service delivery. Our tourists need a friendly environment and a peace of mind while investing in our country. The establishment of conservancies, lodges. Rest camps, NWR, NTB, Makalani, Arts and Gemstone sellers are all for self employment through tourism. Let us embrace our tourists instead of harassing or killing them. They are our lifelong valuable monetary assets. We need each other in good and bad times. – M.T.* I REALLY enjoy Dudley’s cartoons in The Namibian. They are very humorous and so informative! Keep it up! – Joe * THANK you very much comrade President for emphasising in detail the national issues which every Namibian need to know and understand during your keynote address to the nation at Eenhana on the 26 August of the country’s Heroes Day. – W John General * PLEASE Mr Kandetu think of deaf citizens when broadcasting national events such as Heroes Day because they’re also TV licence holders and want to benefit the full service and not only boring news and useless Talk of Nation. – LH Ubiteb * THE Government needs to institute performance appraisals for the senior staff. One can’t help but wonder what the so called financial adviser in the Ministry of Health is doing.* IS it really fair to evict farmworkers from farms if they spent already more than half a century there like the people of Marburg and others and what about church farms? Are those farms an exemption to the law? * EVEN though Namibia’s Rugby Team is full of whites, I love it because it puts Namibia on the world map. The management should continue with hard work. – Sir Silas Nande, Eenhana * DOES the Government have the intention of having 99 per cent of all sea going personnel being Namibians by 2010? Why do they allow fishing companies to recruit foreigners, while there are Namibians with the same qualification.ICC issue * DEMOCRATIC Namibians can we watch the words that we say to our leaders. Who are you to tell the President to also pack if he can’t stand criticism? Can you throw back words to your father in the house or why do you have to answer back to the President like that? Every country has leaders and they are respected by their fellow countrymen and women. Let us keep our cultural respect that our parents taught us, so that we can pass them to our children.* HAS anyone noticed how quiet the opposition has been on the ICC issue? I reckon Ya Nangoloh should start his own party. At least he has the balls to take on the big guns. – Edwin B * SWAPO did the usual thing to suppress the truth. You will regret another lost opportunity to settle the detainee issue once and forever.* I JUST want to say that the Unam SRC doesn’t speak for the majority of students when it comes to the ICC issue. The same leadership of the SRC is afraid to address real issues affecting students like the compulsory breakfast! * I WANT to raise a complain about the bad things people say of the Founding Father. Why do we have to forget what he did for us. Remember the good things he did for us. Nujoma will not go down no matter what people say.* MR Ya Nangoloh please stop digging in the past. Don’t try and open old wounds – it’s of no use. The main issues in Namibia are peace and stability, nation building and striving for Vision 2030. What you are doing is dividing the nation.