The sound of a boekmakirie, a familiar bird of Southern Africa, on radio, especially on the short wave bands into the southern parts of Africa, with spill overs to the rest of the continent and other parts of the globe, has over the years, signalled the Radio RSA broadcasts. The bird itself is especially found in the Southern Africa especially in South Africa, parts of southern and western Namibia and south-western Angola. Zimbabwe and Mozambique have isolated population of boekemakiries.

In ‘This Day In the Jubilee 3’ – a third episode in the special series of celebratory programmes within Our Heritage programme, we hear how a young man left Namibia to pursue a career that came through listening to Radio RSA in that country. Was he lured by propaganda?