Bantu was a racist term used to classify the Zulu, Xhosa, Tswana, Venda, and Sotho people under one racial group of black Africans. ... These departments included the Bantu Administration, Coloured Affairs, Indian Affairs, and the Community Development. ... Arguably one of the most devastating aspects of the social engineering of Apartheid was its creation of the Bantu Education Act of 1953. This act tightened the segregation of the school system and reorganized education under the sole control of the government. ... Mandela commented, "either the government took over education for Africa...

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In both South Africa and the United States, the racial exclusion of blacks or more specifically the bantu in South Africa served as a strategic purposes of coalition building by those in power. ... There was just simply not enough whites to fill the roles of labour thus the Bantu were imperative to the the economic aspect of apartheid as they were base of the network. ...

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Under the category of "non-white" were further subdivisions that separated the "Bantu", "colored", and "Asian" citizens. ... In the mind of the public, the government started to attack the education of their children not long after the start of apartheid. In 1953, the Education Act banned black Africans from attending mission schools. ... Education was tampered with more in the mid-1970s where a pre-existing law to teach Afrikaans alongside of English was more actively enforced. ... The education system of children has also been revised and made better s...

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