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The Act was repealed in 1979 by the Education and the Training Act of 1979, which continued the system of racially-segregated education but also eliminating both discrimination in tuition fees and the segregated Department of Bantu Education and allowed both the use of native tongue education until the fourth grade and a limited attendance at ...
Before the Bantu Education Act was passed, apartheid in education tended to be implemented in a haphazard and uneven manner. The purpose of the act was to consolidate Bantu education, i.e., education of black people, so that discriminatory educational practices could be uniformly implemented across South Africa.
The Bantu Education Act ensured that black South Africans had only the barest minimum of education, thus entrenching the role of blacks in the apartheid economy as a cheap source of unskilled labour. In June 1954, Verwoerd in a speech stated: "The Bantu must be guided to serve his own community in all respects.
Bantu Education Act-era schooling perpetuated the color-caste system through curriculum disparity. Whereas white students were taught how to pursue high-level jobs that would guarantee they remained socially affluent, Black South Africans were only educated on how to fill labor-heavy roles that would benefit segregationists. [5] Sibusisiwe ...
The Bantu Education Act, ... white South Africans ranked the lack of international sport as one of the three most damaging consequences of apartheid. [122]
In the “Turfloop Testimony” as it became known [5] Tiro criticised both apartheid [4] and the Bantu Education Act for requiring black students to undertake some of their education in Afrikaans. [5] Tiro was immediately expelled by the white authorities concerned by its impact on black people in the audience. [4]
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School learners began to confront the Bantu education policy, which was designed to prepare them to be second-class citizens. They created the South African Student's Movement (SASM). It was particularly popular in Soweto, where the 1976 insurrection against Bantu Education would prove to be a crossroads in the fight against apartheid.