bantu education act

• what were the effects of the bantu education act?

  black school funding increased but remained 16x less than white schools

  black school could not facilitate the growing population
• when was the bantu education act?

  1953
• what was the eiselen report?

  report made by eiselen in 1949 which investigated black south african education and suggested improvements
• what recommendations were given in the eiselen report?

  africans needed to be protected against western influences

  africans should be taughts only the skills they need to function as cheap labourers
• what did the bantu education act bring about?

  end to subsidies for mission school which most africans attended

  introduction of limited vocational curriculum
• what was the effect of the bantu education act?

  black south africans were only being taught skills required to perform labour

  26,000 africans were given teaching roles
• what was the ANC's response to the bantu education act?

  voted for a boycott of state schools
• what was the effect of the boycott?


  the government responded to it by stating that schools would be shut down if children did not attend and those kids could not be readmitted

  boycott failed