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The Act was repealed in 1979 by the Education and the Training Act of 1979, which continued the system of racially-segregated education but also eliminating both discrimination in tuition fees and the segregated Department of Bantu Education and allowed both the use of native tongue education until the fourth grade and a limited attendance at ...
One of the hallmarks of Bantu education was a disparity between the quality of education available to different ethnic groups. Black education received one-tenth of the resources allocated to white education; [ 2 ] throughout apartheid, black children were educated in classes with teacher-pupil ratios of 1:56. [ 2 ]
Among the laws that were drawn and enacted during Verwoerd's time as minister for native affairs were the Population Registration Act and the Group Areas Act in 1950, the Pass Laws Act of 1952 and the Reservation of Separate Amenities Act of 1953. Verwoerd wrote the Bantu Education Act, which was to have a deleterious effect on the ability of ...
Railways and Harbours Acts Amendment Act, 1953: 41: Railways and Harbours Special Pensions Act, 1953: 42: Financial Relations Amendment Act, 1953: 43: Immigrants Regulation Amendment Act, 1953: 44: Pension Laws Amendment Act, 1953: 45: Finance Act, 1953: 46: Pensions (Supplementary) Act, 1953: 47: Bantu Education Act, 1953 (before 1978) Black ...
[29] Following the Bantu Education Act (No. 47) of 1953 the government tightened its control over religious high schools by eliminating almost all financial aid, forcing many churches to sell their schools to the government or close them entirely. [30]
In 1953, the white-minority National Party government introduced the Bantu Education Act to further their apartheid system of racial segregation and white domination. Disliking the Act, Tutu and his wife left the teaching profession. [47] With Huddleston's support, Tutu chose to become an Anglican priest. [48]
All schools had to provide instruction in both Afrikaans and English as languages, but white South African students learned other subjects in their home language. The Regional Director of Bantu Education (Northern Transvaal Region), J.G. Erasmus, told Circuit Inspectors and Principals of Schools that from 1 January 1975, Afrikaans had to be ...
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