THE UNIVERSITY IN THE GENESIS OF BLACK CONSCIENCE IN SOUTH AFRICA

Abstract

The origin of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa is related to the events that occurred within South African universities, especially the situation of black students. Situation that is perfectly articulated with the segregationist structures deepened by the apartheid regime in South Africa since 1948. In this sense, certain questions are formulated that come to light in the investigative process, mainly about that relationship that favored the origin of the notorious movement. To try to respond to this phenomenon, proposed variables and an analytical and historical-logical methodology were handled, the intention of which is to demonstrate the impact of the evolution of Bantu education and the importation into the educational sector of the segregationist proposals that created very unequal conditions for the advancement of students, based on their ethno-racial origin, as part of the Bantustanization strategy of apartheid. In this direction, a group of students was formed, who by the sixties had been born or raised with apartheid and who were doubly segregated inside and outside the University, but also influenced by the African decolonization process, the repression of the regime in the sixties and the social movements that took place internationally. To conclude that all those external and internal, structural and circumstantial conditions led to the birth of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa, with a relatively new ideological platform in the South African scene of struggle.