I Beg to Differ

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Peter Storey. I Beg to Differ

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Author’s Notes and Acknowledgements

Photo Section

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PETER STOREY

I BEG TO DIFFER

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If you head east these days on the road from Pretoria to Witbank you will find that urban sprawl has obliterated most of the Kilnerton campus. The koppie is built over with pricey white homes, but on the ridge, if you look very carefully, you will see that the stone chapel is there, and alongside the widened road, hidden in tall grass, the stone gate-posts still stand as mute witnesses to an era when fine education and Christian character-building produced the generation who would one day liberate South Africa. And Bantu Education? This iniquitous strategy to retain white supremacy by stunting black development produced its own bitter fruit for South Africa’s white rulers. In 1976 burning resentment over this issue, particularly with the added insult of forcing Afrikaans language instruction upon black scholars, finally exploded. A younger generation, fearless and confident and ready to die, marched out of the Bantu Education schools into history.

There my spirit is always at peace.

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