C.N.E., noun

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Also CNE.
Initial letters of Christian National Education, see Christian-National sense 1. Also attributive.
1966 Cape Argus 27 Sept. 19There was a considerable movement afoot to have the national education policy based on the principles of the ‘so-called Christian National Education’. He wanted to know to what extent the national policy was going to be aligned with C.N.E.
1971 J.C. Coetzee in Std Encycl. of Sn Afr. III. 215After the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902)..especially in the Transvaal and the Orange River Colony a powerful C.N.E. system with its own private schools developed. C.N.E. is an education wholly Christian in its basis, character, aim and spirit...C.N.E. is to the Afrikaner an education completely national in its foundation, character, aim and spirit.
1987 Pretoria News 15 June 4CNE entrenches the notion of discrimination superiority and inferiority and presents a singularly inaccurate and distorted view of history.
1991 F.G. Butler Local Habitation 101I found myself..dashing about to address anti-C.N.E. meetings as far as Tweespruit in the Free State.
Initial letters of Christian National Education, see Christian-National sense 1. Also attributive.
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