The history of the teachers association of South Africa and the role it played in the development of education for Indians in South Africa.

Abstract

A teachers' association is essentially a society, the members of which are united by mutual interests or for a common purpose. A teachers' association performs its business in terms of what it is specifically required to do. What its specific tasks are arise out of the individual and the collective needs of its members. The needs are generally deep-seated and deep felt. When an association plays a conspicuous part in need fulfilment, it establishes for itself a role. A teachers' association is generally characterised by the role or roles it plays. A teachers' association is basically an autonomous or semiautonomous interest group which has an historical background. The historical background implies that the formation of a teachers' association was in terms of certain social and/ or economic factors and/or political factors. It is difficult to find any well-recognised teachers' association which has not been born out of all three factors operating simultaneously.