Bantu Education Act 1953

Bantu education act 1953
The law was introduced in 1953, and was later renamed ​Black education act, 1953​. The law mainly enforced racially segregrated educational facilities. The law extended apartheid to black schools, these schools were previously run by missionaries with some state aid. But B.edu act​ ended this small autonomy. Many of these schools closed instead of supporting aparthied.

Intent according to Hendrik Voerwerd was to solve South Africas 'ethnic problems' by creating complementary economic and political units for different ethnic groups. according to the gov. the law was to teach African learners to be "hewers of wood and drawers of water" for a white controlled country.

But it has been argued that the real intent was to direct black or non-white youth to unskilled labour market.

The law is considerd a Grand​ apartheid law, as its end goal was to seperate South Africa form Bantusans entirely, Voerwerds statement support this, ''There is no place for [the Bantu] in the European community above the level of certain forms of labour ... What is the use of teaching the Bantu child mathematics when it cannot use it in practice?"''

​The origin of the B.edu act​ is the manifesto from 1939, created by Afrikaner nationalists. It held the belief that education of blacks was a special responsibility of a superior white race.

Repealed in 1980 by the law ​Education and Training act, 1979 Write the first paragraph of your page here