What should have happened to Bantu education during apartheid?

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. read more

The Apartheid government built many schools for Bantu education but they made a critical mistake that played directly into the hands of the revolutionaries - they forced Afrikaans as the medium of teaching. read more

Bantu Education, the separate and limited experience encountered by non-whites in South Africa when pursuing an education, was a cornerstone of the apartheid philosophy. The following quotes illustrate the diverse viewpoints about Bantu Education from both sides of the anti-Apartheid struggle. read more

The system of Apartheid came to an end when President Nelson Mandela came to power in 1994. A classroom in Crossroads, a squatter township in South Africa, 1979. ] ‘Apartheid’ means ‘being apart’ in Dutch and Afrikaans, a variation of Dutch spoken by the Dutch settlers of South Africa. read more