Bantu Education Act, South African law, enacted in 1953, that governed the education of Black South African children. It was part of the government’s system of separate development (apartheid) for different racial groups and was aimed at training Black children for menial jobs. Learn more about the law and its effects.
The decision to think of isiZulu and isiXhosa as two separate languages can to some extent be traced back to African interpreters on whom European missionaries depended