Information Creation as a Proccess

Media Formats

SlideShare

Reference: Mokoena, D. (2015). The soweto uprising. SlideShare.com

Link: https://www.slideshare.net/DineoMokoena/the-soweto-uprising-of-1976-54559121?qid=50146866-ba53-41b9-87d8-810acace0a7c&v=&b=&from_search=2

I have chosen this presentation based on the fact that it briefly summarises certain events of the day students decided to stand up and fight for what they believed in. I also liked the images used in the presentation because it gives us a visual representation of what transpired and what students were subjected to. Also, LinkedIn is a site where users are subject to producing work that is accurate and not in violation of any rights of third parties. 

Newspaper article

Reference: Bokala, W. (1976) 'Anti-Afrikaans pupils go on strike in soweto', The World,18 May

Link: http://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/bokala-w-1976-anti-afrikaans-pupils-go-strike-soweto-world18-may

This newspaper article was selected as a favoured sources, due to the fact that it was published in The World, which was originally named The Bantu World, a black daily newspaper based in Johannesburg. This is the city where the uprising first begun and and reports on news from the perspective of those who were victimised by the forced education system and highlights the frustration they felt that led them to such fury-driven acts. 

Video Interview

Reference: Wiley, D. (2006). Interview with Obed Bapela. Overcoming Apartheid - Building Democracy

Link: http://overcomingapartheid.msu.edu/video.php?id=65-24F-95

This video was selected based on the fact that it gives a first-hand account of how Bantu Education was experienced by one of the people who was subjected to this Act that was passed. With Obed being a product of Bantu Education, he is seen as an authoritative figure based on his personal experience and recollection of that period of his life.

Article (PDF)

Reference: Gool, J. (1966). The crimes of bantu education in south africa. Unity Movement Publication.
Link: http://www.apdusa.org.za/wp-content/books/crimes.of.bantu.education.pdf

This article was selected based on the nature thereof. Apart from giving a detailed description of the Bantu Education Act and how it affected our people, it also highlights the criminal injustice done to all black South African youth whereby they were robbed of equality and also deprived of the rightful education they deserved.

Podcast

Reference: SABC Digital News. (2013). Dr Albetina Luthile speak about the impact of Bantu Education 60 years later. SoundCloud.com

Link: https://soundcloud.com/sabc-digital-news/dr-albetina-luthili-on-bantu

This podcast was selected based on the fact that SABC News is a trusted news station and the speakers being interviewed were both authoritative figures, based on their lived experiences and observations of Bantu Education and how it still affects people today - 60 years later. The one speaker speaks from a pre-Bantu Education perspective, while the other speaks from the perspective of being a product of the then unjust education system. 

Conversions

Article to Blog Post

I have chosen to convert the article by Jane Gool into a blog post. This was not a difficult task. I have changed the name of the post and have reworded the body of the post, so as to avoid issues of plagiarism, and any copyright issues that may arise. 

The blog post can be found at Bantu Education: A Criminal Injustice

Video to Newspaper/Presentation
I have chosen to convert the video interview with Obed Bapela into a newspaper article/presentation (on prezi.com). This task was time consuming as I had to listen to the video and transcribe what was being said by the interviewee. Again, considering issues around plagiarism and copyright, the transcript was used to gain understanding as to what the interview was about, but everything was re-written in my own words.
The presentation can be viewed at Education Matters

Bantu Education: A Criminal Injustice

"Perhaps the greatest crime that can be inflicted on any people is to strike a blow at its youth - the most defenseless" - Jane Gool.

As we well know that the youth can be considered a force to be reckoned with. This was witnessed with the fight against Apartheid, where the youth fought equally hard to see that justice is brought to all. This fight was particularly fueled by the passing of Bantu Education Act which was passed in 1953, under the leadership of Verwoerd and was designed with the intent of depriving our youth from obtaining an equal, quality education (Gool, 1966). The justification of the government being that black people were being misled by the education system into thinking that there were opportunities and a place for them within a European society, which was not the case (Gool, 1966).

Black students were forced to learn some of their subjects in Afrikaans, and what made this worse is that they were being taught by teachers who were not skilled in the language which profusely impacted their learning and caused significant hindrances, particularly with subjects such as mathematics and arithmetic, and history, to name a few (Gool, 1966). Not only was the quality of the education severely inferior, the infrastructure was also of an inferior standard, as these black students were largely taught in tents, halls, stoeps, or otherwise dilapidated buildings (Gool, 1966). Though the hunger for education among these students was so great, there was no opportunity for that hunger to be satisfied, as the government exerted every effort to keep these youth oppressed and deprived of the one thing they desired most - knowledge (Gool, 1966).

After decades of being subjected to this educational injustice, students took to the streets and decided to fight back and stand up for their beliefs - to stand up for their rights. Many students sacrificed their education, and even their lives to ensure that justice was served. It was these brave acts of courage that broke the chains of Apartheid in education and paved the way to freedom for them, and freedom for all.

Reference: Gool, J. (1966). The crimes of bantu education in south africa. Unity Movement Publication.

Link: http://www.apdusa.org.za/wp-content/books/crimes.of.bantu.education.pdf

Information Has Value

The Impact of Bantu Education on Society

"Education is

no doubt, 

something we cannot do without" 

-Anastashia

Education is and always will be an invaluable tool toward building a bigger and better society. Therefore, it is of utmost importance that everyone is afforded the opportunity to be educated and give them a chance in the world. Though education is more accessible now, it is no secret that this was not always, the case, and the quality of  education was not evenly distributed. The Bantu Education Act brought black schools under the control of the government who forced schools to adopt a racially discriminatory curriculum in order to continue receiving funding. Black schools were subjected to poor quality education and training based on the "belief" that they did not require training for work that they would never be allowed to do (Kallaway, 2002)

Reference: Kallaway, Peter, ed. The History of Education under Apartheid, 1948-1994 : the Doors of Learning and Culture shall be Opened. New York: P. Lang, 2002.

Images:

Image on Pixabay

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Image by Babak Fakhamzadeh

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Image by GDJ

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Image by Sam Nzima

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Image by Unknown

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Media

Newspaper Article

Phefeni student boycott in Soweto in May 1976

YouTube

Resistance to Bantu Education by Sam Desmarais

This video was published by Sam Dismarais (2017) and is issued under the standard YouTube license. YouTube allows all users to mark their original work with a creative commons license which grants the YouTube community permission to use and modify your videos.

Article

Click on image to read article by Jane Gool

Podcast

Click on Image to listen to podcast

News Website

Open Education Sources

Slideshare.com is a site whereby people freely share powerpoint slides and presentations.
Slideshare presentation on South Africa under the Apartheid Regime.