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13 Bibliography of Bantu Education Act 1953

Over the years, several books and journals have been written to help us see the Bantu Education Act and it’s effects in different perspectives.

Many of these books are not published online because of the inaccessibility of internet facilities as at then. However, a search through University libraries and historic archives will help you get one of these publications.

Here is a bibliography of sources related to the Bantu Education Act of 1953:

1. Bantu Education: A Discussion of the Separate Educational Facilities for Non-White South Africans 

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Department of Bantu Education. Bantu Education: A Discussion of the Separate Educational Facilities for Non-White South Africans. Pretoria: Government Printer, 1954.

This government publication provides an overview of the Bantu Education system, including its objectives, curriculum, and funding.

2. The Political Economy of Race and Class in South Africa

Magubane, Bernard M. The Political Economy of Race and Class in South Africa. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1979.

This book examines the ways in which race and class intersect in the context of South African society, including the impact of apartheid policies like Bantu Education on economic inequality and social mobility. Available on Google Books  

3. The Bantu Education Act and Its Consequences 

Motala, Shirin. “The Bantu Education Act and Its Consequences.” South African Journal of Education 23, no. 3 (2003): 206-210.

This journal article examines the impact of the Bantu Education Act on educational opportunities and outcomes for non-white South Africans, including the ways in which it perpetuated systemic inequality.

4. Separate and Unequal: The Bantu Education Act and South African Apartheid 

Spiegel, A. D. “Separate and Unequal: The Bantu Education Act and South African Apartheid.” The Journal of Negro Education 69, no. 3 (2000): 192-202.

This journal article explores the connection between the Bantu Education Act and the broader system of racial discrimination and oppression known as apartheid, including the ways in which it reinforced social and economic inequality.

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5. The Bantu Education Act and African Resistance in South Africa 

Walker, Cherryl. “The Bantu Education Act and African Resistance in South Africa.” Journal of Southern African Studies 4, no. 2 (1978): 157-177.

This journal article examines the ways in which black South Africans resisted the Bantu Education system through various forms of protest and activism, including boycotts, demonstrations, and civil disobedience.

6. The Bantu Education Act and South African Education, 1953-1968

Webster, Eddie. “The Bantu Education Act and South African Education, 1953-1968.” Journal of African History 13, no. 4 (1972): 637-654.

This journal article provides a historical overview of the Bantu Education system, including its origins, implementation, and evolution over time, as well as the ways in which it shaped the educational landscape of South Africa more broadly.

7. The Bantu Education Act: A Failure of Democracy 

Wilson, Francis. “The Bantu Education Act: A Failure of Democracy.” South African Journal of Education 31, no. 4 (2011): 440-452.

This journal article argues that the Bantu Education Act was a failure of democracy, as it denied non-white South Africans the right to a quality education and perpetuated systemic inequality, thereby undermining the principles of democratic governance.

8. The Making of Bantu Education: A Historical Overview 

Bundy, Colin. “The Making of Bantu Education: A Historical Overview.” Journal of Curriculum Studies 18, no. 5 (1986): 423-431.

This article provides a historical analysis of the development of Bantu Education in South Africa and how it served the interests of the apartheid government. It also explores the resistance to Bantu Education and the role of education in the struggle against apartheid. It remains an important resource on the topic.

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9. A History of African Higher Education from Antiquity to the Present 

Lulat, Y. G.-M. A History of African Higher Education from Antiquity to the Present: A Critical Synthesis. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005.

This book provides a comprehensive history of higher education in Africa, including a discussion of the impact of apartheid-era policies like Bantu Education on access to higher education and academic freedom. Available on Google Books

10. Bantu Education, Colonialism and Christian National Education 

Saleh, Fatima. “Bantu Education, Colonialism and Christian National Education: The Origins of Apartheid Education in South Africa.” Journal of Pan African Studies 3, no. 7 (2010): 146-159.

This journal article examines the historical roots of the Bantu Education system, including its connections to colonialism and Christian National Education, as well as the ways in which it was used to promote white supremacy.

11. Inscribing Race on the Body: The Logic of Apartheid Education 

Soudien, Crain. “Inscribing Race on the Body: The Logic of Apartheid Education.” Comparative Education Review 38, no. 2 (1994): 168-185.

This journal article analyzes the ways in which the Bantu Education system was designed to reinforce and perpetuate racial inequality in South Africa, including the ways in which it inscribed race onto the bodies and minds of black South Africans.

12. From Christian National Education to Bantu Education 

Van der Walt, Johannes L. “From Christian National Education to Bantu Education: The Evolution of Apartheid Education, 1924-1954.” Journal of Educational Studies 11, no. 1 (2012): 77-99.

This book explores the complex relationships between education, equality, and human rights, including a discussion of the impact of apartheid-era policies like Bantu Education on the educational opportunities and outcomes of marginalized groups in South Africa.

13. Apartheid and Education: The Education of Black South Africans 

Horrell, Muriel. Apartheid and Education: The Education of Black South Africans. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978. 

This book examines the impact of apartheid policies on the education of black South Africans and how education was used as a tool for resistance and liberation. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the effects of apartheid on South African society and remains an important resource on the topic.

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These books and articles provide a range of perspectives on the Bantu Education Act of 1953 and its impact on South African society. 

They explore the political, social, economic, and historical factors that led to the creation of this system, as well as its consequences for education, equality, and human rights in South Africa. 

By examining the complex relationships between race, class, gender, and other forms of social difference, they offer insights into the ongoing struggles for justice and equality in the post-apartheid era.

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Bantu Education Act , South African law , enacted in 1953 and in effect from January 1, 1954, that governed the education of Black South African (called Bantu by the country’s government) children. It was part of the government’s system of apartheid , which sanctioned racial segregation and discrimination against nonwhites in the country.

From about the 1930s the vast majority of schools serving Black students in South Africa were run by missions and often operated with state aid. Most children, however, did not attend these schools. In 1949 the government appointed a commission, headed by anthropologist W.W.M. Eiselen, to study and make recommendations for the education of native South Africans. The Eiselen Commission Report (1951) urged the government to take charge of education for Black South Africans in order to make it part of a general socioeconomic plan for the country. In addition, the report stated that the schooling should be tailored toward the needs and values of the cultures of the communities in which the schools were located. The prescriptions of the commission were generally followed by the Bantu Education Act.

Under the act, the Department of Native Affairs, headed by Hendrik Verwoerd , was made responsible for the education of Black South Africans; in 1958 the Department of Bantu Education was established. The act required Black children to attend the government schools. Teaching was to take place in the students’ native tongue, though the syllabus included classes in English and Afrikaans . Instruction was mandated in needlework (for girls), handcraft, planting, and soil conservation as well as in arithmetic , social studies, and Christian religion. The education was aimed at training the children for the manual labour and menial jobs that the government deemed suitable for those of their race, and it was explicitly intended to inculcate the idea that Black people were to accept being subservient to white South Africans. Funding for the schools was to come from taxes paid by the communities that they served, so Black schools received only a small fraction of the amount of money that was available to their white counterparts. As a result, there was a profound shortage of qualified teachers, and teacher-student ratios ranged from 40–1 to 60–1. An attempt by activists to establish alternative schools (called cultural clubs because such schools were illegal under the education act) that would give children a better education had collapsed by the end of the 1950s.

High schools were initially concentrated in the Bantustans , reserves that the government intended as homelands for Black South Africans. However, during the 1970s the need for better-trained Black workers resulted in the opening of high schools in Soweto , outside Johannesburg . Nonwhite students were barred from attending open universities by the Extension of University Education Act (1959). The Bantu Education Act was replaced by the Education and Training Act of 1979. Mandatory segregation in education ended with the passage of the South African Schools Act in 1996, but decades of substandard education and barriers to entrance to historically white schools had left the majority of Black South Africans far behind in educational achievement by the beginning of the 21st century.

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Cape Town: School of Librarianship, University of Cape Town, 1965. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); original green staplebound card wrappers; [4],iii,[1],24pp. About Fine. Bibliography on education during the early years of apartheid originally compiled in 1959 in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Higher Certificate in Librarianship.

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Segregated schools of thought: The Bantu Education Act (1953) revisited

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Various political parties, civil rights groups and columnists support the view that one of South Africa’s foremost socio-economic challenges is overcoming the scarring legacy which the Bantu Education Act of 1953 left on the face of the country. In light of this challenge, a need arose to revisit the position and place of Bantu Education historiography in the current contested interpretation of its legacy. It is apparent from the plethora of literature available on this topic that academics are not in agreement about whether or not the passing of the 1953 Act was a watershed moment in marginalising education for black pupils. On the one hand, it would seem that the general consensus is that the 1953 Act was indeed a turning point in the formalisation of education reserved for pupils of colour – thus a largely “traditional” view. On the other hand, the Marxist school, as coined by P Christie and C Collins, argues that securing a cheap, unskilled labour force was already on the agenda of the white electorate preceding the formalisation of the Act. The aim of this article is two-fold. Firstly, to contextualise these two stances historically; and secondly and more chiefly, to examine the varying approaches regarding the rationalisation behind Bantu Education by testing these approaches against the rationale apparent in primary sources in the form of parliamentary debates and contemporary newspaper articles.

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Hunter, Mark. "THE BOND OF EDUCATION: GENDER, THE VALUE OF CHILDREN, AND THE MAKING OF UMLAZI TOWNSHIP IN 1960s SOUTH AFRICA." Journal of African History 55, no. 3 (September 22, 2014): 467–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853714000383.

Ball, Tyler Scott. "Sof’town Sleuths: The Hard-Boiled Genre Goes to Jo’Burg." Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 5, no. 1 (November 27, 2017): 20–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pli.2017.38.

Verhoef, M. "Funksionele meertaligheid in Suid-Afrika: 'n onbereikbare ideaal?" Literator 19, no. 1 (April 26, 1998): 35–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v19i1.511.

Campbell, Kurt. "Philological Reversion in Post-Apartheid South Africa: The Sand Writing and Alternate Alphabets of Willem Boshoff." Philological Encounters 3, no. 4 (November 27, 2018): 524–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24519197-12340053.

giliomee, hermann. "A NOTE ON BANTU EDUCATION, 1953 TO 1970." South African Journal of Economics 77, no. 1 (March 2009): 190–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1813-6982.2009.01193.x.

Klein, Melanie. "Creating the Authentic? Art Teaching in South Africa as Transcultural Phenomenon." Culture Unbound 6, no. 7 (December 15, 2014): 1347–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.1461347.

Bologna, Matthew Joseph. "The United States and Sputnik: A Reassessment of Dwight D. Eisenhower's Presidential Legacy." General: Brock University Undergraduate Journal of History 3 (December 18, 2018): 29–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.26522/gbuujh.v3i0.1722.

Mária, Péter H. "Commemoration of Kárpáti Gizella, the first woman who took her degree in medical science in Kolozsvár at Ferenc József University." Bulletin of Medical Sciences 91, no. 1 (July 1, 2018): 67–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/orvtudert-2018-0001.

Kolbiarz Chmelinová, Katarina. "University Art History in Slovakia after WWII and its Sovietization in 1950s." Artium Quaestiones , no. 30 (December 20, 2019): 161–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/aq.2019.30.8.

Anderson, R. Bentley. "‘To Save a Soul’: Catholic Mission Schools, Apartheid, and the 1953 Bantu Education Act." Journal of Religious History , May 21, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.12664.

Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Bantu Education Act (1953)":

Moore, Nadine Lauren. "In a class of their own : the Bantu Education Act (1953) revisited." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/53445.

Leleki, Msokoli William. "A Critical Response of the English Speaking Churches to the Introduction and Implementation of Bantu Education Act in South Africa." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/46253.

Rundle, Margaret. "Accommodation or confrontation? Some responses to the Eiselen commission report and the Bantu education act with special reference to the Methodist church of South Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19520.

Legodi, Mapula Rosina. "Issues and trends in shaping black perspectives on education in South Africa : a historical-educational survey and appraisal." Diss., 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17195.

Legodi, Mapula Rosina. "The transformation of education in South Africa since 1994 : a historical-educational survey and evaluation." Thesis, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17196.

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"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

There is no space for him [the "Native"] in the European Community above certain forms of labor. For this reason it is of no avail for him to receive training which has its aim in the absorption of the European Community, where he cannot be absorbed. Until now he has been subjected to a school system which drew him away from his community and misled him by showing him the greener pastures of European Society where he is not allowed to graze. (quoted in Kallaway, 92)

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