According to Frescura (2003), foreign missionaries settled in southern Africa between 1800 and 1925. These settlers planned to educate and civilize people from different communities using a religious approach to spread the Gospel using formal education. Initially, education was provided to slaves, but their focus later shifted to the education of white people (Le Roux, 2011). In mission schools, high quality education was provided to non-whites to train people to convert and be able to convert. to continue the project of their missionaries. Missionary schools required their graduates, privileged enough to afford it, to pursue higher education abroad. When the National Party came to power in 1948, it decided to focus primarily on the education of whites, which led to non-whites receiving education in public schools, which lacked the resources and structured facilities necessary; teachers were not properly trained and the standard of education was very poor (Metcalfe, 2013). The Bantu Education Act of 1953 was implemented by the government, while the National Party was in power, and was the most unwelcome law during the apartheid era. The Bantu Education Act was a divisive law, where racial separation was legalized. This law made it possible to legalize certain parts of the apartheid system (Anon., nd). Almost all African schools were established and operated by missionaries with little financial assistance from the government. Various political activists, including Nelson Mandela, attended missionary schools, but Bantu education ended the independence these schools had previously enjoyed. Alternatively, government financial support for blacks... middle of paper ... influenced in part how he lived his life. A religious approach in education plays a very important role. Mandela respected different religions (South African History Online, 2014). His respect for different religions and so many other qualities of Mandela made him a respectable leader loved by most. Learning about religion and having a religious approach to education better prepares you to respect different religions, it teaches you to appreciate your own religion and broadens your understanding of different people who practice different religions. According to our constitution, every person has the right to choose their own religion. Therefore, imposing religion on learners is unconstitutional. South Africa has a multicultural environment which will create difficulties in imposing a specific religion on learners..