Under the category of "non-white" were further subdivisions that separated the "Bantu", "colored", and "Asian" citizens. The reason for the actions of the South African government to create this law was to make sure that there would be no unified resistance against the government. 1950 saw the rise of another law that limited the rights of the non-whites. The Group Areas Act of 1950 created areas that separated the places where the whites and non-whites could live and work. Along with later legislation, there were more areas that were cut off from the non-white population, forcing them to use passbooks to limit their movements. It can be speculated that the South African government sought to deploy these laws to abuse their power by giving themselves what they believed to be a better life. 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. These mission schools were able to teach students more freely than the state-run schools that the Africans were forced into because of the new law. In fact, the state-run schools often taught their students about the uses and benefits of separating ethnic groups through apartheid laws. Education was tampered with more in the mid-1970s where a pre-existing law to teach Afrikaans alongside of English was more actively enforced. Afrikaans was often associated with white supremacy amongst most of the native population, so the more active enforcement of this law did not receive positive feedback from the native population. These laws regarding education were most likely employed to create a future in which apartheid and white superiority would be accepted easier in the next generation. All of these acts were ploys by South Africa that simply, "Denied many of them [South Africans] fundamental rights" (BrainyQuote).
