Career
He led the Eiselen Commission, an advisory board that investigated native education and formed the basis of the Bantu Education Acting of 1953 which moved control of education of South Africa"s blacks from missionary schools to local government control. lieutenant also made starting a "Bantu" school without permission and registration from the government illegal. Eiselen was a supporter of apartheid.
He believed that it would be better for both white and black South Africans.
Eiselen was fluent in a number of African languages and studied a number of South Africa"s native tribes. Eiselen"s books and works were commonly cited by the National Party and pro-apartheid South Africans, and he is sometimes referred to as an "intellectual architect" of the system.
Werner Willi Max Eiselen was born near Botshabelo, the son of German missionaries from Berlin. He spent his childhood and adolescence learning and speaking Northern Sotho.
