the law of bantu education was passed in 1953.
the law of bantu education was passed in 1953.
when was the law of bantu education passed?
1953
department of bantu education









































the department of bantu education was an organ created by the national party government of south africa in 1953. the bantu education act, 1953 provided the legislative framework for this department.









































section::::function of the department.
department of bantu education
this trend continued at radio bantu, whose broadcasting time increased to 24 hours in 1978, making it a canvas upon which battle lines were drawn; a push and pull between government ideology and multiply defined resistance. the move of the sabc from the ministry of post and telegraphs to the ministry of national education under van der spuy aligned radio bantu directly with the heartbeat of the apartheid state; bantu education. having noted that the key to sustaining the status quo of white supremacy/black subservience was the creation of a generation educated in a reality of subservience, the school radio service began focusing its attentions on younger standards; neglecting to touch on home language and aboriginal cultural instruction. the removal of geography and citizenship [a programme directed at educating black persons about the conditions of their south african citizenship following legislative changes] in 1970 from the lesson roll respectively served the making of parochial black persons who remained unaware of a life outside their present reality and voiced the exclusion of blacks from the banner of south african citizenship. furthermore, the removal of the bantu composers programme (1973) and the editing out of ethnic history from the history lesson script (1974) stripped the service entirely of its mask as a supplementary cultural education source. attempts to feign impartiality firstly faded then vanished completely. the conversion of the programme for teachers to a ‘series for the educated bantu’ in 1973 presented itself as an intellectuals paradise, but was in fact a means to punt the ideology of homelands to educated fence-sitters. by 1975, the blatant correlation between changes in the bantu education policy [following the afrikaans medium decree of 1974], which dictated that the medium of instruction to be used from std 5 upwards was afrikaans, and radio bantu, which aired a 10 lesson preparation for this on the school radio service and subsequently removed older standards from the lesson roll, meant the line between sabc and the government became so blurred that it was almost non-existent. within this politically impotent environment were members of staff like thokozani nene, thetha masombuka and koos hadebe who explored the foggy separation between these two institutions, attempting to maintain some objectivity. nene, who joined radio bantu as a news reader in 1971, consciously prefaced his news bulletins with the disclaimer that the news being broadcast was state (johannesburg) prepared and used praise poems, whose format lends itself to poetic and archaic language and heavily references zulu history, to address the listeners in the introduction and conclusion to his news bulletins. hadebe, who joined radio zulu as a sports commentator under the wing of thetha masombuka in 1974 following the splitting of radio bantu as an umbrella black radio service into separate language services along ethnic lines, would broadcast soccer matches in zulu on the weekend, then translate them into sindebele and siswati for the weekday sports shows with masombuka. nene’s effort to educate his audience in history and culture (lived and linguistic) and hadebe’s multi-ethnic-serving broadcasts with masombuka aligned their work with two greater resistance movements in motion at the time.
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