The role of Mission schools in SA education

I find it quite amusing that Hermann Giliomee, Research Associate in the
Department of History at the University of Stellenbosch, in his paper
Bantu Education: Destructive Intervention or Part Reform? claims using
statistical mumbo-jumbo that the National Party's destruction of mission
schools and introducing mass Bantu Education did more good than harm to
black South Africans. Nonsense!!! The National Party was only concerned
about increasing Afrikaans Capital and Afrikaans labor aristocracy. The
introduction of Bantu Education was a means to modernize racial
domination, a system of indoctrination of the young, "Education For
Servitude," As Ernest Cole(Kole) put it. It goes to show Hendrick
Verwoerd didn't rest in peace, his spirit is haunting people like Minner
Giliomee.

A History Of The Church In Africa by Bengt Sundkler and Christopher Steed is a must read on this topic.
Missionaries sought to establish "mission villages" governed by elite mission-trained sons of Native chiefs.
"The transformation from mission schooling to Bantu Education should not
be seen as a radical break as many liberal writers have suggested. Nor should this
transition, at another extreme, be understood as having resumed without interruption."

On 17 April 1658, Van Riebeeck, Governor of the Cape, wrote in his diary:

"Began holding schools for young slaves. To stimulate slaves to attention while at school, and to induce them to learn Christian prayers, they were promised each a glass of brandy and two inches of tobacco, when they finish their task."
(Horrell, 1970: 3)

Not too long ago, South Africa had the highest prevalence of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS), in the world. Liquor [as a causal factor] has contributed to our high prevalence of crime, child abuse, domestic violence, killings, sexual abuse, rape, vagrancy, etc..... particularly across and within our "non-white" communities.

This is but a scratch on the surface, it is but the tip of the iceberg that is Christendom and Western Civilization in our country alone. However, the iceberg is not unique to our nation and society. Anywhere they landed, it can be found, be it North America or South Africa.

This is the imprint Christendom and Western Civilization has left behind on the world. This is but one flower planted, one flower nurtured, in the vast garden of Christendom and Western Civilization.

"Began holding schools for young slaves. To stimulate slaves to attention while at school, and to induce them to learn Christian prayers, they were promised each a glass of brandy and two inches of tobacco, when they finish their task."
(Horrell, 1970: 3)

My sants😂