President Pohamba said the civil service had to improve, be more efficient and if it needed a reform, then a complete change of the civil service should take place. Addressing all permanent secretaries of each ministry this week, Pohamba said, he wondered if Namibia could reach the development goals set out in Vision 2030 or if they would only be reached 20 years later, by 2050. There was a lack of implementation of all the good policies produced by the government, Pohamba said. Permanent secretaries should this year set priorities for projects; liase with their ministers so that informed decisions could be made at Cabinet level. Government would set up the Namibian Institute for Public Service Administration to streamline training of civil servants and "bring about a corporate culture" in the civil service. Permanent secretaries should cut done on unnecessary local and foreign travel, Pohamba urged. From now on, the Cabinet Secretariat would submit reports to the Cabinet in progress made on ministries’ programmes. The government would in 2006 concentrate on education, health issues and support to rural communities and vulnerable groups, especially people living with Aids, the president noted. Education needed re-planning so that desperate pupils looking for a place in schools would not be repeated in 2007, Pohamba said.

Calle Schlettwein, permanent secretary in the ministry of finance called for unity of purpose at all levels and "that scarce resources" allocated for new classrooms would not be redirected to "bail out failed government agencies".