ABSTRACT
South Africa emerged from apartheid in 1994 with the legacy of a segregated education system. The apartheid system had offered different educational opportunities for blacks and whites (as well as other ethnic groups). The Bantu Education Act (No 47) of 1953 (enacted by the apartheid government) created the Department of Bantu Education which was established to produce a curriculum that suited the “nature and requirements of the black people” (Boddy-Evans, 2011). Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd (then Minister of Native Affairs, later Prime Minister), stated:
[I]ts aim was to prevent Africans receiving an education that would lead them to aspire to positions they wouldn’t be allowed to hold in society. Instead Africans were to receive an education designed to provide them with skills to serve their own people in the homelands or to work in labouring jobs under whites (Boddy-Evans, 2011).
