For a good while after they settled in the Transvaal the Boers had a system of Apprenticing Kafir children which was with difficulty distinguishable from predial serfdom: and though they have constantly denied that they sanctioned either the kidnapping of children or the treatment of the apprentices as slaves, there is reason to think that in some parts of the country these abuses did for a time exist.
"Impressions of South Africa"
James Bryce
If not fit for such, they usually went into a trade, Apprenticing, for instance, with a draper, silk-merchant, or goldsmith.
"Our Legal Heritage, 4th Ed."
S. A. Reilly
The Associated Catholic Charities, for educating and Apprenticing the children of poor Catholics, have six schools in London.
"The Religious Life of London"
J. Ewing Ritchie