In the 1970s the state spent ten times more per child on the education of white children than on black children within the Bantu Education system (the education system in black schools within white South Africa).
20世纪70年代期间，南非政府对白人儿童的人均教育资金投入是班图教育系统（南非白人区的黑人学校的教育系统）的黑人儿童的十倍。