In the 1950’s it was evident that the home based madrassas and the few madrassahs in Johannesburg were not coping with the demand . There were insufficient Ustaads/teachers and it was becoming more difficult to bring ustaads from Indo-Pak to come to South Africa .
The Trust consulted widely and invited learned academics and ulamas from the Indian Sub continent , India and Pakistan, and embarked on a programme to develop a new Islamic Curriculum. The Trust also began training secular school teachers and house wives to enable them to teach in Madassahs .The Bree Street School in Fordsburg was the first Madrassah established to use the new material and the new methods and syllabus. It also became the training facility centre for the new teachers.
The Trust also opened several madrassahs in Lenasia using State school classrooms . In later years the Trust , in an agreement with the Lenasia Muslim Association jointly ran the and then handed over the Lenasia madrassahs to the Lenasia Muslim Association.
This very progressive approach has had far reaching consequences for deeni talim training throughout South Africa and other countries also. The CIT Madrassa syllabus was a forerunner for similar programmes developed by other Islamic organization.
The Trust at present has one Madrassa at the Fordsburg Primary School. Over 200 learners ranging in age from 5 five years to 15 years attend madrassa every afternoon. In addition there are a few adults that come to the madrassa as part of their training as new revert Muslims. The Madrassa Committee carries out regular inspection of the madrassa to ensure that the teaching conforms to acceptable standards.
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