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from either Edinburgh, Glasgow or Birmingham, with additional credentials, in the 

 case of five of them, from Dublin, Budapest, Toronto and Meharry medical colleges. 



In Law the number of fully qualified men is also seven. Four of these went through 

 Lincoln's Inn and the Inner Temple (London) as barristers ; one served his articles in 

 London as a solicitor, and two have qualified as attorneys within South Africa after 

 serving articles with local European attorneys. 



The following questions naturally arise in connection with the professional education 

 of the Bantu : Is there a need for such men ? Do the Bantu races possess the capacity 

 to reach the exacting standard demanded by these professions ? What are the 

 opportunities available for such an education and for the practice thereof ? 



In answer, we may state that : — 



(1) The country is in sore need of such men because the Native people can best 

 be served by their own sons and daughters, all other things being equal. 



(2) The actual success achieved during the last decade has gone to prove beyond 

 all shadow of a doubt that, given a favourable chance, the Bantu, notwithstanding their 

 brief tradition in civilisation and their present lack of a cultured social background, 

 have an inherent intellectual ability that enables them to reach a stage of equality 

 when pitted against the brains of those races that lead in modern civilisation. In recent 

 pubhc examinations they have achieved first grades at the Junior certificate, at the 

 Matriculation and in the Majors of the B.A. degree, as well as record passes in medicine. 



(3) Opportunities are offered by the South African Native College at Fort Hare, 

 Alice, Cape Province, for all the training required in the line of Teaching and the 

 Ministry and University degrees of B.A. and M.A. But in Law there is no choice 

 except private study. In medicine it has been discovered by the Loram Committee 

 appointed by the Government to ' inquire into the training of Natives in medicine 

 and public health ' that the medical needs of the South African Natives will not be 

 satisfied until we have something like nine hundred Native qualified doctors. The- 

 Natives at present, compelled by existing circumstances, are still obliged to go to- 

 Edinburgh or elsewhere overseas at a prohibitive expense to secure their traming in 

 medicine. 



Discussion : Mr. J. Rheinallt Jones, Canon Parkeb. 

 (e) Dr. XuMA. — Medical Training and the Bantu. 



Thursday, August 1. 



Education and Industry. 



(fl.) Prof. F. Clarke. — Apprenticeship and School. 



Object of paper not to traverse the whole field, but to raise certain specific questions 

 and to indicate ways in which South African experience may help in elucidation : — 

 (i) Relation of organised industry to technical school training of apprentices, 

 (ii) Adjustment of technical school provision to : — 

 (a) Immediate demands of industry. 

 (6) Wider needs of young worker as member of producing group and as citizen. 



South African Apprenticeship Act. 



Proceeds on two main principles : — 



(a) Acceptance of apprenticeship as well-defined form of status in a producing 

 system — gives priority to educational (training) considerations over industrial. 

 Hence, its scheme provides a standard for conditions of juvenile employment capable 

 of wide and varied application. Public and other bodies concerned with juveniles in 

 industry all tend to apply it even where the Act itself does not operate. 



(6) Autonomy of each organised industry in control of its apprentices under the 

 Act. 



Technical Education. 



Peculiar social and economic conditions in South Africa as demanding high degree 

 of productive efficiency, primarily in European workers and ultimately in coloured 

 and native workers also. Virtual limitation of operation of Act at present to European 

 section of population. 



