Eiselen Commission on Native Education (UG 53/1951)

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	commission or official report
Producer	Eiselen Commission
Coverage	1949-1951
Works using it	5

Debates

Debate	Works
Education, Bantu Education and skills	3
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	2
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism	1
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Carter (1958)	Native Education Commission (Eiselen) Report, U.G. 53/1951	1949-1951	Basis for the account of the Bantu Education Act and the history of African schooling.
Giliomee (2009)	Report of the Commission on Native Education (Eiselen Commission), Union Government 53/1951	1951	Shows the commission found no distinct intelligence in black children and recommended state control, mother-tongue instruction and a doubling of secondary enrolment, undercutting the racial-inferiority reading.
Johnson (1982)	Eiselen Commission on Native Education (terms of reference and report), 1949-51	1949-1951	Shows the premise of separate Bantu education and that African testimony against it was ignored, leading to the Bantu Education Act.
Massie (1997)	Eiselen Commission report, 'Education for Natives as a Separate Race' (1951)	1951	Documents the intent of Bantu education and the share of African schools run by missions.
McCulloch (2004)	Eiselen Report on Native Education (1951)	1951	Fleisch's chapter reads the report to show a shift of power from civil society to the apartheid bureaucracy and the borrowing of policy from other countries.