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African Education in Zimbabwe: The Colonial Inheritance of the New State, 1899–1979

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

Chengetai J. M. Zvobgo
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Historially two salient features characterized the educational system. It was racially segregated and education for the African majority was largely for exploitation. In this paper, I will review the main features of the educational system in colonial Zimbabwe; the legacy of that system and what the new African Government proposes to do to change it to fit the needs of the new Zimbabwe. The 1899 Education Ordinance had set up two separate systems of education, one for Whites and the other for Blacks. The Ordinance left African education entirely in the hands of Christian missionaries with the government giving small grants to mission schools, provided that these schools were kept open for a minimum of four hours a day, of which not less than two hours were to be devoted to industrial training.

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African Issues , Volume 11 , Issue 3-4 , Fall/Winter 1981 , pp. 13 - 16
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1981 

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