The Higher Learning for the Bantu

The Republic of South Africa has embarked upon an interesting and costly program of university education for young people of the Bantu tribes. Under the policy of apartheid, Bantu students no longer will be enrolled at the University of the Witwatersrand and other institutions for whites. Instead, three university colleges, under the supervision of the University of South Africa, have been established for Bantus.

Recently this writer visited the Bantu University College of the North, at Turfloop, in the Transvaal. Three hundred Bantu young men and women are enrolled there, with present facilities for two hundred more. A larger and older college is in the Transkei, and a new one had been founded in Zululand. Together with those Bantu students still studying elsewhere, the total of Bantu undergraduates now is two thousand; and there are some three thousand Bantu college graduates in South Africa. (This is twice as many native graduates as there are in all the rest of Africa, south of the Sahara, put together.)

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The Republic of South Africa has embarked upon an interesting and costly program of university education for young people of the Bantu tribes. Under the policy of apartheid, Bantu students no longer will be enrolled at the University of the Witwatersrand and other institutions for whites. Instead, three university colleges, under the supervision of the University of South Africa, have been established for Bantus.

Recently this writer visited the Bantu University College of the North, at Turfloop, in the Transvaal. Three hundred Bantu young men and women are enrolled there, with present facilities for two hundred more. A larger and older college is in the Transkei, and a new one had been founded in Zululand. Together with those Bantu students still studying elsewhere, the total of Bantu undergraduates now is two thousand; and there are some three thousand Bantu college graduates in South Africa. (This is twice as many native graduates as there are in all the rest of Africa, south of the Sahara, put together.)