*** *** : SMS OF The Day MANY vacant positions are published daily, but most, if not all, require many years of experience. My day will obviously be more positive because of reading something beautiful about our Land of the Brave. Our country should do more to create good news daily to have a positive influence. This needs a serious intervention! *** *** : SMS OF The Day THANK you The Namibian for covering Lewis Hamilton as a lead story on your cover page. Why do they keep releasing robbers to terrorise us? Namibia will slowly and surely be declared an unsafe country for tourists, which will affect our economy. In most cases, the police can easily identify them on footage.
Most robbers in Windhoek are the usual suspects. *** *** : SMS OF The Day THE video circulating of a tourist being attacked in Windhoek West by well-known suspects who are out on bail for other offences, shows how far our justice system has to go. And, for that matter, fishing legislation was amended to facilitate the corruption that became known as Fishrot. It is precisely because national political leaders are answerable to the party and not constituencies that the ward system was not adopted. Except that he failed to apply the same logic to the national level. *** *** : SMS OF The Day CITIZEN, Nahas Angula's comment Friday 29 July was spot on. Labour minister Utoni Nujoma must also just resign, he is not doing anything in that office. They keep complaining through different platforms but nobody hears their cries. Employees in most if not all private companies and factories, are not happy with their working conditions. All these years Namibians have been suffering, mostly at the hands of foreign businesses, yet the so-called unions never detected any wrongdoing. They are just there to enrich those in charge.
*** : SMS Of The Day NEFF is exposing the uselessness of all labour unions. He also blamed increased water use by upstream South African grape farmers without the knowledge of the relevant authorities for the drying up of the lower Orange River. Grape farmer Ben du Toit said the current plight of the lower Orange River users has an adverse impact on the country's table grape industry. “The water crisis is hurting us.it has financial implications,” he stressed. “All we want is the sustainable management of the Orange-Vaal river system to prevent the lower Orange River from running dry,” Van der Merwe said, adding that the water crisis hurts about 23 farmers cultivating grapes and vegetables on land measuring 2 680 hectares along the lower Orange River near Aussenkehr and Noordoewer. He said water in the lower Orange River near Sendelingsdrift has been flowing at the rate of between one and four cubic metres per second for the past three weeks. If this is applied, the lower Orange River would not have run dry. Van der Merwe said a weir was built at the Namibia/South Africa border crossing at Sendelingsdrift to regulate the flow of water at the rate of 20 cubic metres per second for the sustainability of the ecosystem at the mouth of the Orange River near Oranjemund. New Era last week reported that Cabinet had authorised the minister of agriculture to sign the revised Orasecom agreement on behalf of Namibia, and then table it in parliament for ratification. The agreement regulates how these nations should use the water of the Orange River. The Orasecom was established by the governments of Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia and South Africa through the agreement for the establishment of the Orange-Senqu Commission on 3 November 2000 in Windhoek. It seems they are simply ignoring our water needs,” he stated.Īccording to him, it is the third consecutive year that the lower Orange River has run dry, and called for government intervention to ensure that the Orange-Senqu Watercourse Commission (Orasecom) agreement is honoured. “We (grape farmers) believe South African grape farmers upstream are pumping out more water than their quotas, causing the lower Orange River to run dry. Van der Merwe is of the view that a lack of proper control over water use in areas upstream of the river had caused the lower Orange River's predicament. “This year, there is 14% more water in the Orange-Vaal river system,” he added. The Namibia Grape Farmers Association's chairperson, Nico van der Merwe told The Namibian on Friday that the lower Orange River is not supposed to run dry as there is enough water in the Orange-Vaal River system following good rains in its catchment areas. Namibian grape farmers downstream of the Orange River suspect that increased water use upstream by South African grape farmers was the root cause of the lower parts of the river running dry. THE mighty Orange River has run dry at Aussenkehr and Noordoewer because of suspected mismanagement of water in the Orange-Vaal river system.
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