Bantu Education Act, 1953

The Bantu Education Act of 1953 was a South African apartheid law that placed African schooling under the central government's Native Affairs Department and enforced a separate, deliberately inferior curriculum for black children. Most mission schools, which had educated many African leaders, were closed or taken over. Opposition to it, and later to the imposition of Afrikaans as a teaching language, fed the Soweto uprising of 1976.