SMSes Of Tuesday 17 November 2009

* FOR any country to get ahead, the ruling party needs a strong opposition. And it is something African countries are failing to understand.

Food For Thought* IT is hard not to conclude that the Government’s attitude to reserve entry-level vacancies for ‘exile kids’ demonstrates official contempt for people who remained inside the country and faced the wrath of apartheid head-on. I shudder to think what will happen when the latter group decides to borrow the tactics of war veterans and exile kids to escape the vicious circle of being violated daily by perplexed liberation heroes.Election Fever* THE ECN made the first results known – is this legal?- The ECN did not make the results known. The results were posted at various polling stations, etc, and as a result were in the public domain. The ECN declined to formally make the results known. – News Editor* LIKE it or not, ethnicity/tribe determines who we vote for!* THE whole Sunday news (20h00) on NBC consisted only of Swapo meetings, what about the other parties?Bouquets And Brickbats* SINCERE thanks to the Police at Karibib for their dedication and relentless search for the men who attacked Tannie Lottie. A job well done. – Karibib resident.* WE were very impressed with the friendly and efficient service we received at Swakop Home Affairs recently. A special thanks to Lydia. Keep up the good work and have a great day.* MANY thanks to the security and car guards at the Craft Centre for helping to retrieve and return many of the important contents of my snatched handbag this weekend. Keep up the good work!* ABOUT the church ad on page 32 claiming condoms have 20+ per cent failure rate. Is this misinformed rubbish what our youth needs? Check your ads please.* I WOULD like to ask some taxi drivers to try and take customer care classes because some treat their customers like dirt. All they care about is the money!* HENGARI’S ‘Post Scriptum’ of last Friday was ill-conceived, misdirected and just out of place. His writing about Omusati Region is inciteful, provocative and in bad taste. As an academic he was supposed to draw lines between politics and other facets of a state. But alas, to him, Omusati is a bad region and an enfant terrible for our electoral and democratic processes, full stop. Why, if we are to ask? Is it because of a standoff between Swapo and RDP supporters? Was the whole region at Outapi on that day for him to label the whole region as intolerant? What a pathetic and idiomatic analysis. He demonstrated a nasty hatred towards the region and its inhabitants. Whose agenda is he serving by trying to describe Namibia and Omusati as two different things? Let me refer Hengari to a letter by Salom ya Nambinga in the same paper, The Namibian November 13 2009, page 29. That is the way to put it.- He-wolf, OkalongoCity Fathers Please …* THE Windhoek Municipality is in conflict with the law. My question is: Why do municipal buses state they have capacity for 60 people seated and 15 standing but they keep crowding people in until you find even 100 people. What a shame and what if an accident happens. Please obey the law.- B ShaanikaGeneralIs an apology enough?* READING about those children from Britain who were sent to Australia makes me ashamed to be British. I’m the same age, my parents were stone poor, but we survived despite rationing. My dad never had an involuntary day off work in 40 years. Is an apology enough for the ones not as ‘lucky’ as me? The Germans still pay for what the Nazis did.* AIR Namibia please show the nation the figures for the total passengers that were flown on the Lusaka route and also how many passengers are booked on the Ghana route.Education* MINISTER of Education what if we change the huge High Technical School in Windhoek into a varsity for all engineering fields of study? There are many open hostels.- Concerned Health Matters* CHIEF Ribebe, it would be advisable if you get your kidney transplant done in South Africa because post-transplant complications can be well attended to if the team that did it is close to you like in South Africa. Or will have the money to go back to USA should any complication arises?* ATTENTION Doctor Kamwi. We female doctors are afraid to work at night at Katutura State Hospital, simply because some male doctors are sexually harassing us. We are even afraid to share the same lifts or be driven in the same doctors’ cars from hospitals to doctors’ quarters. We brought this to the medical superintendent’s attention but nothing happened. Sometimes we are called at night as there are patients to be seen at casualty and when we go there are no patients at all. We are harassed and left stranded with no transport to go back to the doctors’ quarters. Please Dr Kamwi something has to be done.Health Minister Richard Kamwi* MINISTER Richard Kamwi, are you aware that nurses in Primary Health Care clinics in Khomas Region have been without uniforms for two years now?- Twalulilwa* DOCTORS at Katutura Hospital are taking patients for a ride. An accident victim complains of severe pain, the doctor is alerted and can only come the next day. Sadly the woman passed away. Children Of The Struggle* ENTRY posts for struggle kids? I could not believe my eyes when I read a passage on this subject in The Namibian of Friday, November 13. Until when will our leaders realise that they are there for everyone residing in this country? Do leaders need all the unemployed and the downtrodden in Namibia to secure employment by following the more convincing tactics, like camping at strategic places for months, to get work? Now non-struggle kids with all sorts of problems will still be left in the cold. Those most qualified Namibians should be taken care of. What a mockery! Yet elected leaders do not see this division, they simply give a nod to everything! Which way Namibia now?NBC* I WAS watching ‘The week that was’, but I’m disappointed by those people who were on the programme when they were discussing the Outapi issue. Both were misinformed that the weapons were only on the RDP supporters. Weapons were confiscated from both the RDP and Swapo. Please Namibians we must not blame only one side, this was very clear to me. I was there.- Twalulilwa
* MAY I use my democratic right to condemn NBC’s programme ‘The week that was’. It does not need a rocket scientist to see that the so-called editors/media specialists are strategically and selectively selected to condemn the opposition parties. Everyone can see where their allegiance is hence ‘high positions for comrades only’. NBC, although an entity being run and bailed out by taxpayers, has failed dismally to inform this nation in an unbiased way. Luther once said: ‘Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere’.* I HAVE enjoyed few things on the NBC television and complained frequently for the past years. But since the current acting DG came in, I can’t find things to complain about. On the contrary, I can only smile. Beautiful broadcasting of the news, NBC on DStv, and much local stuff. I pray that the acting DG’s contract will be extended forever.- JSLabour Issues* TO the Pick n Pay general manager, please look into your Okahandja branch where we have been casuals for about four years now.In And From The Regions* WHY can One Africa TV not work at Arandis? Please tell us.* ANNA Kufu of Omulonga constituency, please do something about the Ohamboyomuve village tap. We are dying of thirst. Please talk to the Ministry or Rural Water Supply to come and open the tap.- HTJ* OKAHAO Hospital registered nurses are resigning. Hospital DCC open your eyes and look at why the nurses leaving the hospital. Every year you have new nurses on probation, until when? – Concerned staff.ACC Alert* THE ACC needs to investigate Forestry for failure to prosecute those responsible (for cutting down Leadwood trees). The excuse is weak and smacks of defeatism or something more sinister. Lost And Found* ON Friday a plastic bag fell from a vehicle which was travelling on the Windhoek-Rehoboth road. I picked it up. Please call 081-269-6055* OLIVIA Amadhila has lost her passport. If found please call 081-350-3401.Sporting* TO the person who wants to get in touch with the BA Supporters Club, please contact Mr Laka Goagoseb, 081-127-9217 or Mr Sidney Narib, 081-298-3338.* STOP complaining about the NBC only showing the EPL. If you want to watch La Liga and Serie A get yourself DStv. We are becoming a nation of cry babies!