“They [the field cornets] should have seen to it that the bible be used in schools, as the law prescribes.”

— Piet Joubert

Thomas Francois Burgers, MS Appelgryn, 1979, p. 62
:In 1874, in reply to a controversy which arose due to remaining influence of the state church (Hervormde Kerk) in ZAR schools, which for the first time were not state controlled

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Gezien hebben dat de bijbel in de Scholen moet gebruikt worden, zooals de wet voorschrijft.

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Boer politician and general 1834–1900

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