WALTER B. RUBUSANA

Compulsory education, technical and industrial schools, and schools in higher education, are a sine qua non in the improvement of the condition of the native races; and it may be politic to observe, that whilst the principle of compulsory education in a modified form has been accepted by the Colony for children of European extraction, the usual retrogressive symptoms protrude themselves like the hydra-headed monster, and an attempt is again made to eliminate the native and coloured people from participating in the advantages accruing to this measure. The whole question of the education of the native and coloured races in South Africa is on a most unsatisfactory basis.

- Walter B. Rubusana, "Replies to Questions", The Natives of South Africa: Their Economic and Social Conditions, (eds.) The South African Native Races Committee (1901).