Teachers, as ever in such meetings, were by report, encouraged to continually update themselves on the standard historical scenarios in Livingstone, the Falls and so on. My sympathies, however, will always be with the teachers who, as ever, are not at all helped by either the establishment or the system (being one and the same) which is still unable to see anything of either interest or importance in this country's history. What then are the teachers supposed to do?
When I arrived in this country, I taught history and civics voluntarily and part time at the old Molefi Junior Secondary School using the prescribed text book, the Junior Certificate History by de Villiers, Gronum and Muller which was probably the worst text book being used by any country in the then Third world. It had gone through multiple re-prints, having been first published in South Africa, of course, in something like 1933. No one in the Protectorate administration, including the notable Director of Education, H.J.E. Dumbrell, had seen anything wrong with it or, perhaps, had been unable to have it dumped.
