This month, 60 years ago, the 1953 Bantu Education Act was promulgated. Before then, all children in South Africa, of all races, were taught the same curriculum. The Verwoerdian approach held that by ...

The death of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has exposed how dangerous a single narrative of the past can be. For me, it elucidated the damage and consequence of the apartheid approach to education, and how ...

Soweto schoolchildren protest against Afrikaans in 1976. Anti-Apartheid Movement Archive, Bodleian Library, Oxford UK This month forty years ago, thousands of Soweto school children took to the ...

Pretoria - The apartheid-era Bantu education system was much better than the current education regime, a Wits academic said in Pretoria on Thursday. "It was far better in terms of quality than the ...

The Curriculum Assessment Policy Statement also known as CAPS is the new system of education, a single comprehensive and incisive policy introduced by the Department of Basic Education for all ...

As our education system grapples with its many challenges, it is worth considering that all schools are sites of struggle, thanks to the interplay of value systems that must necessarily co-exist ...

Build One South Africa (Bosa) leader Mmusi Maimane on Wednesday accused the ANC government of extending the apartheid-era Bantu education over the past 30 years. In a campaign video, Maimane decried ...

This article was a presentation by Nahas Angula at the awards ceremony of the President's Medal of Excellence, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, USA, April 24, 2010 I am delighted to be ...

Bantu was an educational system designed in 1948 (same year the first white elections were held) primarily to ‘train and fit’ Africans for their role in the newly evolving apartheid society. ‘Bantu’ ...