NORTHERN
14 November - 20 November 2013
NamPost burdens
pensioners
Ileni Nandjato
PENSIONERS that receive their
pensions at Otjiwarongo NamPost
are complaining about the atrocious
service they receive.
According to some of the elderly no
proper queues are formed, and younger
customers force them out of being serviced. Also, customers have to wait for
hours before they are assisted.
“Some of us are just excused at work
to rush here, but the office is very full
and there is no proper order as to who
came first. At least, they must make a
provision for pensioners to have their
own counter,” said a customer who is
employed in the retail sector.
A prominent businessman at the
town said that NamPost needs to separate postal services from banking services. “Let them have separate queues
for those want stamps and envelopes,
and those that need financial services.”
Vilho Tjeriko, 89, said he was
dropped off at 04h00 in the morning,
and he found only two other pensioners, but was going to be the last to be
assisted. “I was brought here by my
child, but now that I don’t have much
power to be standing and forcing myself in, I am going to be the last one.
Those younger than me but came after
me will be assisted first, because there
is no proper order as to first come first
served. Every payday is just like this.”
General Manager: Marketing and
Business Development of NamPost,
Berlindi van Eck, did not respond to
queries put to her.
INFORMANTÉ |15
Cancer screening a must - Vicar-General
William J. Mbangula
THE Vicar-General of the
Roman Catholic Church,
Father Werner Afunde, has
implored men and women to
go for cancer screening in order to ensure early detection
and facilitate appropriate
and timely treatment.
He made the appeal against
the background of increasing
incidents of prostate, breast and
cervical cancer in Namibia.
Afunde was speaking during
the funeral of the former Director of Education in Oshana
Region, Gervasius Tshiguuo,
himself a victim of prostate
cancer. He died on 1 November
and was laid to rest at his home
village of Omeege in Oshakati
East Constituency last Saturday, 9 November.
Afunde’s appeal follows a recent march in Ongwediva town
spearheaded by the Medipark
Private Hospital and the Cancer
Association of Namibia (CAN)
which was aimed at creating
cancer awareness in the community. The walk will now become an annual event.
The late Tshiguuo is one of
the pioneer educationists in
Oshana Region, having started
teaching at Omeege in 1967.
He later became the principal
at Omeege and Oniimwandi
respectively. In 1975, he was
promoted to Inspector of Education at Outapi in Omusati
Region until he was promoted
to the position of the Director
of Auxiliary Services in 1990.
In 1994, he became the Director of Education in Oshana Region.
He retired in 2002 and be-
LEFT BEHIND: Tshiguuo’s children. Photo: William J. Mbangula
came a fulltime commercial
farmer. The late Tshiguuo, 71,
is survived by his wife Mansueta and 14 children.
Among the mourners who
flocked to Omeege from near
and far were the Minister of
Mines and Energy Isaac Katali,
a former subordinate of the deceased at Ondangwa.
Others were fellow educationists throughout the country.
Tshiguuo’s former students,
amongst them Patrick Nandago,
permanent secretary of the
Ministry of Home Affairs and
Immigration, Frans Ndoroma,
Telecom managing director, and
Police Commissioner Des Tshilunga were also in attendance.
The funeral was jointly directed by Tshiguuo’s successor
Dutte Shinyemba, and Oshana
chief regional officer Johannes
Kandombo.
INSET: The late Gervasius Tshiguuo.