, itself the culmination of centuries of racist oppression and exploitation. So they sought to intellectually cripple the black majority of South Africa’s population at a time when small breakthroughs in education remained evident.
It was also a time before automation and computerised instruction had become widespread and when the largely agricultural and mining economy in South Africa relied on masses of relatively unskilled, low-paid labour, the biblically ordained “hewers of wood and drawers of water”.Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month. You can cancel anytime and if you cancel within 14 days you won't be billed.
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