NATIVE EDUCATION IN AFRICA
Sir,—-1 spent 12 months wandering about in the Union of South Africa, .1935-1936, visited several large mission centres, including Lovedale, and discussed the subject of educating the native with very many people from Scotland and England. I found all of these greatly in favour of this education. The objectors are the Boers only, who contend (1) that it is entirely unnecessary, (2) that education unfits the native for work. These mission schools have greatly extended their curricula and all have up-to-.late technical departments with skilled teachers in charge. The native thus trained is proving himself the equal of.the finest hand-work craftsmen. I have seen furniture made entirely by natives in South Africa equal to any in the Bond Street shops in London to-day. Under the present laws in South Africa natives can only sell such work to other native centres, or as a special order privately given, and they are not allowed to compete with the white races. Eva M. Seward. I)rury.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23061, 11 June 1938, Page 19
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