However, the Bantu education schools was experienced really hard times in terms of lacking resources, because the government had no care and attention to these schools. ... Therefore the government didn't help at all to the schools that were under Bantu education, because this was exactly what they wanted. Well, because the Bantu education provided segregated and unequal education among black and whites, the government was quite pleased with that. ... In Bantu education schools, there were rather big ratio of students in each classroom comparing with the size of the school, not to mention...

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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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The label that a person was ``obviously white'' would take into account his habits, education, speech, and demeanor. ... In 1951, the Bantu Authorities Act established a foundation for ethnic government in African reserves, known as ``homelands.'' ...

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