ABSTRACT
This chapter describes Eiselen's Report of the Commission on Native Education 1945-51 presenting the education of Africans. It chapter also describes The Bantu Education Act No. 47 of 1953, under which African education was transferred from the Provinces to the control of the Bantu Affairs Department of the Union. The chapter discusses the speech of the Minister of Native Affairs on the 17 September 1953 moving the second reading of the Act in the House of Assembly. It provides extracts refer to the closing down under the Bantu Education Act of a school which had rendered yeoman service to South Africa. The first extract is from Iso Lomuzi, the magazine of the Adams College, and is the farewell letter of the last Principal. The second is a description of the farewell ceremony, reported by the Natal Mercury of Durban, on 3 December 1956. The chapter finally presents an article appeared in the Natal Daily News in December 1962.
