The Population Registration Act of 1950 classified all South Africans by their race: Bantu – black Africans; Colored – mixed race; white and the fourth category of Asians – Indians, Pakistanis, which was added later. ... "Verwoerd's 1953 Bantu Education Act established an inferior education system for Africans based upon a curriculum intended to produce manual laborers and obedient subjects. Similar discriminatory education laws were also imposed on Coloureds, who had lost the right to vote in 1956, and Indians"4 Later in the 1960s, a new policy of Grant Apart...

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The racist polity of apartheid was introduced into South Africa after Dr Malan's National Party was elected into power in 1948 and effectively gave the overwhelming majority of the blacks population no rights or freedom; the aim of apartheid was to keep white domination over all other races in South...

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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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