Bantu Education is a propaganda film that focuses on the “positives” of the Bantu Education Act of 1953. The Bantu Education Act of 1953 a South African segregation law. The act required Black children to attend the government schools. Teaching was to take place in the students’ native tongue. The education was aimed at training the children for the manual labour and menial jobs that the government deemed suitable for those of their race, and it was explicitly intended to inculcate the idea that Black people were to accept being subservient to white South Africans. Funding for the schools was to come from taxes paid by the communities that they served, so Black schools received only a small fraction of the amount of money that was available to their white counterparts.
- Place discussed
- South Africa
- Published in
- Vancouver, BC
