The white education system in South Africa was restructured, in anticipation of democracy, by the apartheid government. From the beginning of 1991, white schools were required to select one of four “Models”: A, B, C, or D. “Model C” was a semi-private structure, with decreased funding from the state, and greatly increased autonomy for schools. […]
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The earliest European schools in South Africa were established in the Cape Colony in the late seventeenth century by Dutch Reformed Church elders committed to biblical instruction, which was necessary for church confirmation. Inrural areas, itinerant teachers (meesters) taught basic literacy and math skills. British mission schools proliferated after 1799, when the first members of […]