Latest articles on Bantu Education

Mandela said I could, so I got my doctorate

Article Motlalepule Nathane - 5 Feb 2020

My mother was a domestic worker and my father a miner, and I went to school in the townships

Danger in restricting knowledge

Article Hlumelo Biko - 26 Apr 2019

Secrecy and the selective education of a few led to the fall of the Ancient Egyptians

Young people must take the baton from the heroes of 1976

Article Staff Reporter - 28 Jun 2018

In the hope of creating a better South African future, the youth of today should look to the past

20 years after the ‘Mamdani affair’, the old adversary rejoins UCT

Article Sarah Smit - 5 Jun 2018

The academic who took on the university’s ‘bantu’ curriculum has returned, marking a ‘path towards decolonisation’

Restore hope to SA’s democracy

Article Kgalema Motlanthe - 20 Oct 2017

A better future is possible – but only if the scourge of inequality is banished

A present with poor education leads to a future with no hope

Article Staff Reporter - 3 Feb 2015

When the socks that need pulling up are absent, we must turn to leaders, the government, municipalities and citizens, writes Haji Mohamed Dawjee.

Rededicating quality education

Article Staff Reporter - 1 Nov 2013

Winner: Investing in the Future Education Award — Tiger Kloof Educational Institution

Bantu Education cannot continue to haunt us

Analysis Staff Reporter - 24 Oct 2013

The achievements of learners are still strongly (and sadly) linked to the circumstances of their birth, writes Annette Lovemore.

Motshekga on Ramphele: She’s looking for a hobby

Article Staff Reporter - 9 Oct 2013

Angie Motshekga and Mamphela Ramphele have clashed again after the Agang SA leader's fresh comments that education under apartheid was better in SA.

Holomisa castigates ANC for upsetting Mandela family

Article Charles Molele - 14 Jun 2013

Bantu Holomisa has warned the ANC against making insensitive statements about the medical condition of former president Nelson Mandela.

Apartheid psychology persists in schools

Analysis Staff Reporter - 27 Jan 2012

Few people realise how far South Africa's education system has come since the dawn of democracy in 1994.

UCT in war over ‘bantu education’

Article David Macfarlane - 11 Mar 2011

Students and academics question move to 'close' Centre for African Studies, writes <b>David Macfarlane</b>.

Keeping it reel

Article Staff Reporter - 20 Jun 2008

The story of the late Onkgopotse Tiro is told in a brooding documentary by Steve Mokwena called <i>A Blues for Tiro</i>.

Somafco pupils wait to come home

Article Weekly Mail Reporter - 12 Jul 1991

The Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College (Somafco) in Tanzania for South African refugees has recently closed.

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