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Bantu Education Act
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- Originally crafted in 1939 by Afrikaner nationalists.
- Affected each of South Africa's population groups
- Whites, Africans, Indians, and Coloureds.
- Disadvantaged all black groups, but was particularly devastating for Africans.
- Brought African education under control of the governent
- Extended apartheid to black schools.
- Government funding of black schools cut.
- Most mission schools for Africans chose to close rather than promote apartheid in education.
- Bantu education served the interests of white supremacy.
- It denied black people access to the same educational opportunities and resources enjoyed by white South Africans.
- To denigrate black people's history, culture, and identity.
- It promoted myths and racial stereotypes in its curricula and textbooks.
- African people and communities were portrayed as traditional, rural, and unchanging.
Sources Cited
- http://overcomingapartheid.msu.edu/sidebar.php?id=3
- http://www.nelsonmandela.org
- http://www.sahistory.org.za/bantu-education-act-no-47-1953
Important Dates & Additional History
"In 1953 the government passed the Bantu Education Act, which the people didn't want. We didn't want this bad education for our children. This Bantu Education Act was to make sure that our children only learnt things that would make them good for what the government wanted: to work in the factories and so on; they must not learn properly at school like the white children. Our children were to go to school only three hours a day, two shifts of children every day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, so that more children could get a little bit of learning without government having to spend more money. Hawu! It was a terrible thing that act."
Baard and Schreiner, My Spirit is Not Banned, Part 2
- 1959- Extention of University Education Act
- 1974- Afrikaans Medium Decree
- 1976- Soweto Uprising
- 1979- Education and Training Act
- 1996- South African Schools Act
Definitions:
- Afrikaans: A Dutch language used in South Africa.
When?
- 1953-1979
Where?
- All schools inside the borders of South Africa
Who?
What, How & Why?
Bantu Education Act
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