The foundations of a segregated schooling system on the Witwatersrand, 1900-1924

Abstract

The origins of the present segregated schooling system are bound up with the structuring of South African racial capitalism under the dominance of mining capital, particularly in the period 1900-1924, In attempting an historical explanation of this process, this study argues that the economic and social foundations of the backwardness of the schooling for Blacks in South Africa are connected with the segregationist structure determined by class struggle in the for early period of mining capital. It demonstrates that the basic characteristics and features of segregation in education had been established during the same period.