ABSTRACT
This racial view of Bantu Education is based on a specific type of analysis which emphasizes the unique political character of South African history in general, and apartheid in particular. Apartheid, or the ideology and practice of Afrikaner Nationalism since 1948, are on this view to be understood in terms of assumptions about: the psychological make-up of the Afrikaner and his allegedly unique propensity for racial prejudice; the unique historical experience of the Afrikaner nation; the fundamental opposition between liberal capitalist values and the spirit of Afrikaner nationalism. If people are indeed seeking educational policies which will advance the broad mass of students not just the select few. They need to look beyond the classic formulas for mass schooling in capitalist society or the conventions of educational aid and planning embodied in such documents. At present there is little sign of such an initiative, which may mean that post-colonial education in South Africa will lose its present colour coding.
