Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – White Power nationalism in South Africa during the Apartheid period from the 1940s until the early 1990s demanded that the 20% of the population that was white control the lives of the 68% of the population that was Black. (Actually, during this era the whites declined to only 13% by 1990, and Blacks increased to 76%).
Education was one way that Blacks were kept down. They were, or many were, offered an education, but only one that led to working class status. Maria Lizet Ocampo writes at a Stanford University page,
While schooling was compulsory until age 16 for whites, it was only compulsory for Blacks until age 13. She adds, Black students received no financial aid and could not get loans for education from banks….
https://www.juancole.com/2023/08/palestinian-preparation-university.html
