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40: 172:, the Minister of Native Affairs, claimed that the aim was to solve South Africa's "ethnic problems" by creating complementary economic and political units for different ethnic groups. A particular fear of the National Party that most likely led to the passing of this legislation was the rising number of children (known as 195:
The Act led to a substantial increase of government funding to the learning institutions of black Africans, but they did not keep up with the population increase. The law forced institutions to be under the direct control of the state. The National Party now had the power to employ and train teachers
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were made "tribal", and all but three missionary schools chose to close down when the government would no longer help to support their schools. Very few authorities continued using their own finances to support education for native Africans. In 1959, that type of education was extended to "non-white"
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The schools reserved for the country's white children were of Western standards. The Act did not stipulate lesser standards of education for non-whites, but it legislated for the establishment of an advisory board and directed the minister to do so. Of the black schools, 30% of had no electricity,
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25% had no running water and more than half had no plumbing. Education for Blacks, Indians and Coloureds was substantially cheaper but not free, and the salaries of teachers were set at very low levels.
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To provide for the transfer of administration and control of native education from the several provincial administrations to the Government of the Union, and for matters incidental thereto.
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Black teachers' salaries in 1953 were extremely low and resulted in a dramatic drop of trainee teachers. Only one third of the black teachers were qualified.
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was taken over by the government and degraded to being part of the Bantu education system. It is often argued that the policy of
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viewed education as having a rather pivotal position in their goal of eventually separating South Africa from the
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South Africa: Time Running Out : the Report of the Study Commission on U.S. Policy Toward Southern Africa
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In the 1970s, the per capita governmental spending on black education was one-tenth of the spending on white.
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and English as languages of instruction from the last year of primary school, led to the
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system. Its major provision enforced racially-separated educational facilities; Even
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in which more than 575 people died, at least 134 of them under the age of 18.
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Nadine L. Moore, Faculty of Humanities University of Pretoria (2015).
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http://nmmu.ac.za/documents/mward/Bantu%20Education%20Act%201953.pdf
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Giliomee H. (March 2009). "A Note on Bantu Education 1953-1970",
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Article on apartheid and education that mentions the Bantu Act
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segregation law that legislated for several aspects of the
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entirely. Verwoerd, the "Architect of Apartheid", stated:
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Clark, Domini; Nancy L. Clark; William H. Worger (2004).
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of 1974, which forced all black schools to use both
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Bantu Education Act

Parliament of South Africa
Long title
Parliament of South Africa
Minister of Native Affairs (South Africa)
Education and the Training Act of 1979
Repealed
South African
apartheid
universities
Extension of University Education Act, 1959
University College of Fort Hare
Bantu
Hendrik Verwoerd
tsotsis
National Party
Bantustans
Afrikaans
Soweto Uprising
Education and the Training Act of 1979
"IN CLASS OF THEIR OWN: THE BANTU EDUCATION ACT (1953) REVISITED"




South Africa - The Rise and Fall of Apartheid
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Timeline of the University: 1959

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