The consequences of nationalism: Church square in Pretoria on the day South Africa became a republic Hendrik Verwoerd was the architect of apartheid. He was responsible for at least two of apartheid's most infamous policies: the creation of the Bantustans and the Bantu Education Act (where he famously proclaimed:"There is no place for [the Bantu] in the European community above the level of certain forms of labour ... What is the use of teaching the Bantu child mathematics when it cannot use it in practice? That is quite absurd. Education must train people in accordance with their opportunities in life, according to the sphere in which they live.") Most South Africans – black and white – now consider Verwoerd and his ideas nefarious: he led us down a road that we are still struggling to recover from.
This is what nationalism can do to you
This is what nationalism can do to you
This is what nationalism can do to you
The consequences of nationalism: Church square in Pretoria on the day South Africa became a republic Hendrik Verwoerd was the architect of apartheid. He was responsible for at least two of apartheid's most infamous policies: the creation of the Bantustans and the Bantu Education Act (where he famously proclaimed:"There is no place for [the Bantu] in the European community above the level of certain forms of labour ... What is the use of teaching the Bantu child mathematics when it cannot use it in practice? That is quite absurd. Education must train people in accordance with their opportunities in life, according to the sphere in which they live.") Most South Africans – black and white – now consider Verwoerd and his ideas nefarious: he led us down a road that we are still struggling to recover from.