ABSTRACT
The control of education in the Republic of South Africa is of a dualistic nature: all primary and secondary education—except technical education—is controlled by the different provinces constituting the Republic, while all ' higher education ' and technical education is controlled by the central government. An exception is, however, the training of primary school teachers, which has chiefly become the function of the provinces. The Republic of South Africa is mainly and chiefly a Protestant country in which the following churches have a strong influence: the group of Dutch Reformed Churches, which are strongly Calvinistic in their outlook, the Anglicans, and the group known as the Free Churches, namely the Baptists, Congregationalists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Moravians, and other smaller groups. The education of Bantu children became a function of the Central Government under the Department of Bantu Education in 1953. Before this, Bantu education was chiefly a missionary concern; numerous churches had their own missionary schools.
