the law of the bantu education act was passed in 1953.
the law of the bantu education act was passed in 1953.
when was the law of the bantu education act passed?
1953
the bantu education act, 1953 (act no. 47 of 1953; later renamed the black education act, 1953) was a south african segregation law which legalised several aspects of the apartheid system. its major provision was enforcing racially separated educational facilities. even universities were made "tribal", and all but three missionary schools chose to close down when the government no longer would help support their schools. very few authorities continued using their own finances to support education for native africans. in 1959, this type of education was extended to "non white" universities and colleges with the extension of university education act, and the internationally prestigious university college of fort hare was taken over by the government and degraded to being part of the bantu education system. it is often argued that the policy of bantu (african) education was aimed to direct black or non-white youth to the unskilled labour market, although hendrik verwoerd, at the time 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.
bantu education act, 1953
before the passage of the bantu education act, 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. previously, black education was administered by provincial governments. with the creation of the department, the central national government assumed control of all black education in south africa. racial segregation in education became mandatory under the act.
department of bantu education