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South Africa: Overcoming Apartheid

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HOME UNITS ESSAYS MEDIA INTERVIEWS FOR EDUCATORS search: advanced search Media for this essay Essay Soweto Student Uprising Interviews Eddie Daniels [:20] Obed Bapela [1:11] Documents Bantu Education in Action Glossary Biographies 1 2 | Next Page Bantu Education "In 1953 the government passed the Bantu Education Act, which the people didn't want. We didn't want this bad education for our children. This Bantu Education Act was to make sure that our children only learnt things that would make them good for what the government wanted: to work in the factories and so on; they must not learn properly at school like the white children. Our children were to go to school only three hours a day, two shifts of children every day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, so that more children could get a little bit of learning without government having to spend more money. Hawu! It was a terrible thing that act." Baard and Schreiner, My Spirit is Not Banned, Part 2 The 1953 Bantu Educ

HOME UNITS ESSAYS MEDIA INTERVIEWS FOR EDUCATORS search: advanced search Media for this essay Essay Soweto Student Uprising Interviews Eddie Daniels [:20] Obed Bapela [1:11] Documents Bantu Education in Action Glossary Biographies 1 2 | Next Page Bantu Education "In 1953 the government passed the Bantu Education Act, which the people didn't want. We didn't want this bad education for our children. This Bantu Education Act was to make sure that our children only learnt things that would make them good for what the government wanted: to work in the factories and so on; they must not learn proper

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