The Re-organisation of Rural Education in the Cape Province of the Union of South Africa

This volume was written by Johannes Rossouw Malan and published in the mid-20th century, specifically emerging from the academic and pedagogical discourse surrounding South Africa's educational infrastructure during the era of the Union. The work reflects a period of intensive bureaucratic and social study aimed at standardizing and reforming schooling systems across the rural Cape Province, a region characterized by its expansive geographical challenges and complex administrative divisions.

The text is largely technical in nature, designed to provide a framework for educational administrators and policy makers to address issues of attendance, curriculum distribution, and resource allocation. As a scholarly contribution to the history of South African social policy, the work is representative of the era's focus on structured institutional control and development, documenting the efforts of authorities to integrate disparate rural communities into a centralized educational model.