Along these dimensions, “White’ schools are far better off than any of the others, and ‘Indian’ and ‘Coloured’ schools are better off than those for ‘Africans’. During the apartheid years, South African schools reflected in microcosm the tensions and discord of society at odds with itself. 0000019485 00000 n Schools for White children were hot-houses for prejudice and fertile beds of
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0000019868 00000 n In 1959 universities were segregated. People's education was a populist response to apartheid; it provided 0000069571 00000 n ‘Post-Apartheid Policy and Practice: Educational Reform in South Africa.’ Pp. 0000020446 00000 n 0000023899 00000 n 0000022173 00000 n 0000020828 00000 n For the period of its duration, schools were one of the system’s most stark symbols. ‘Apartheid’ means ‘being apart’ in Dutch and Afrikaans, a variation of Dutch spoken by the Dutch settlers of South Africa. Examination criteria and procedures were instrumental in promoting the political perspectives of those in power and allowed teachers very little latitude to determine standards or to interpret the work of their students. 0000000990 00000 n Sociology Study ISSN 2159‐5526 January 2013, Volume 3, Number 1, 1‐12 History of Apartheid Education and the Problems of Reconstruction in South Africa weapon for both the government’s apartheid education proponents and opponents; as a result it affected all sectors of South African society. Today, not much is different. With these notorious words, Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd introduced Bantu Education to Parliament in 1953. It was preceded by decades of two different kinds of divisive education systems. 0000025959 00000 n Today, as a new and democratic government seeks to repair and reconstruct the fabric of South Africa’s ravaged past, it is to the schooling system that much of its attention has turned. A classroom in Crossroads, a squatter township in South Africa, 1979. ] 0000023372 00000 n Apart from a few ‘mixed’ ‘private’ schools, there are separate schools for the four ‘population groups’; it is illegal for a person to attend a state school designated for a ‘population group’ other than that to which she has officially been assigned, or for a school to admit as a pupil someone from the ‘wrong population group’.