BANTU EDUCATION ACT

An act was designed to alter education in South Africa in 1949.

Before the act was implemented in 1953, most schools were run by missionaries and funded by the state.

The act took control of African schools away from missionaries and the state.

Instead of churches and the state running schools, the Bantu Education Department took over.

Tax money paid by Africans was separated from the money used to fund their education.

As a result, schools closed down because of the lack of funding.

Many tried to rebel against the act by forming the African Education Movement, which made makeshift schools in an attempt to replace the schools which closed down.

...but they closed down before the 1960's

SOURCES

• Rothstein, Chloe Melissa. "Overcoming Apartheid Policies Yesterday and Today: An Interview with a Former Bantu Education Student and Present-Day Activist." Global Perspectives on Human Language: The South African Context. Leland Stanford Junior University, 19 Sept. 2004. Web. 06 Sept. 2016.
• "Bantu Education and the Racist Compartmentalizing of Education." South African History Online. South African History Online, 30 Mar. 2011. Web. 06 Sept. 2016.
• O'Malley, Padraig. "1953. Bantu Education Act." The O'Malley Archives. Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, n.d. Web. 07 Sept. 2016.

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