Unfortunately the results of their efforts are more funny than substantial.

The daily Jack-in-the-Box of the show repeats on the radio for more than 12 years the same unrealistic and misleading request: That the 'whites' should transfer, together with the land, their knowledge to the 'blacks'.

This would require something like the "Funnel of Nuremberg" which is a legendary device of a forgotten ancient time in southern Germany in which a teacher holds the funnel on top of the head of a pupil.

Then knowledge is poured directly into the brain of the learner.

However, a look at the curriculum from an agricultural college in Rendsburg (Germany) for young women - after their formal education - who wanted to work in a tropical country (70 years ago) might help.

They were trained to acquire basic knowledge in the following fields: cooking, slaughtering, baking, how to produce cheese and butter, basics in carpentry and metal handling, first aid, nursing, animal husbandry, raising poultry, vegetable, flower and fruit production, general maintenance in house and garden, bookkeeping, typing, teaching, English, Portuguese or Spanish and Otjiherero or Kiswahili, art and music and many more.

Most became wives of farmers who themselves had mostly an academic background.

Others worked as farm assistants, teachers on farm schools, cooks in hotels, nurses in kindergartens and so on.

Some founded their own businesses after topping up their qualifications.

This is just one example of how a general education leads to individual knowledge.

This should later be accompanied by sound vocational or tertiary studies with proven records.

Through collecting experience by performing a professional task according to one's background one is fit to be employed or lead an own business.

To suggest that knowledge can be 'handed over' or 'given' to somebody is similar to the treatments of traditional doctor, Dr Mojo, whose expression reflects only how he has acquired his own wisdom by hearsay and without any record of passed examination.

The daily drummers of the SPYL are no better when it comes to practical proposals.

They pestered the shows for several days with the idea that the Namibian Government should put up a law which allows that a client of a bank should be allowed to pay back a loan for a house in two years as is done for a car loan.

One wonders as to what they are thinking? The moderators are helpless.

They allowed the head boy of Swapo to misuse the show for a boring 11 minutes on August 18.

Is Mr Matundu afraid to discipline this person? Is the expression 'the war goes on' which is frequently used by him, an attempt to impose himself unashamed in an exhibitionist manner on the helpless listener? Japie Van Wyk Walvis Bay

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