De Villiers Commission on Technical and Vocational Education

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	commission or official report
Producer	Union of South Africa
Coverage	1948-1949
Works using it	2

Debates

Debate	Works
Education, Bantu Education and skills	2
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
McGrath et al. (2004a)	De Villiers Commission (Report of the Commission on Technical and Vocational Education of 1948)	1948 (published 1949)	Establishes official thinking that black technical training should focus on teaching discipline and 'how to work' and that apprenticeship rules excluded black youth.
McGrath et al. (2004b)	Report of the Commission on Technical and Vocational Education of 1948 (De Villiers Commission)	1948-1949	Shows how the state defined technical and vocational education for black learners as discipline and social ordering, and records apprenticeship exclusion.