The Bantu Education Act's system took effect, centralising African education under the Union government's Department of Native Affairs. It displaced much mission-school control and tied schooling to the apartheid state's racial hierarchy and labour needs. The Act was passed in 1953; this record uses its documented commencement date. African communities, teachers and organisations resisted the dismantling of schools and the imposition of inferior, segregated education.
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What did the Bantu Education system do?
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The system placed African education under a department built around apartheid policy.
Bantu Education expanded equal educational opportunity under a shared system.
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The Act centralised and entrenched racial separation and unequal provision.