Apartheid South Africa
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- proper noun
- /əˈpɑːrˌteɪd saʊθ ˈæfrɪkə/
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Sudáfrica del apartheid
- By this standard, artistic boycotts of any state, including Nazi Germany or apartheid South Africa, would be illegitimate, since one never knows what views are held by each individual member of the audience.
- Post-Apartheid South Africa
Margaret Hillary Marshall, known to all as Margie, was born in apartheid South Africa in a coal and steel town called Newcastle.
- Margaret Hillary Marshall, known to all as Margie, was born in apartheid South Africa in a coal and steel town called Newcastle.
- I didn't grow up in the USI grew up as a white South African in apartheid South Africa.
Examples
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Both struggle to follow the models established for them by their parents and instead strike out independently, attempting to forge new identities in the new society of post-Apartheid South Africa.
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A lot more countries refused to trade with Apartheid South Africa than refuse to trade with Cuba.
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In my college days, we protested investments in Apartheid South Africa, and only after 15 years did victory come.
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In theater, the Junction Avenue Theater Company uses the character of Saul to portray the difficulties of being a photographer in Apartheid South Africa in their play Tooth and Nail.
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Again, many capitalist dictatorships privilege a dominant ethnicity, as with Apartheid South Africa or discrimination against native Chileans by the Pinochet regime in Chile.
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Limiting the franchise was a key tactic for Apartheid South Africa's government under Boetha, which was run as a capitalist dictatorship on behalf of the white Cape Town business classes.
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The policy of racial segregation defined life for millions during Apartheid South Africa.
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Many activists fought against injustice during the harsh years of Apartheid South Africa.
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Education and job opportunities were severely limited for non-whites in Apartheid South Africa.
Synonyms
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A system that separates people by race and treats some as less equal, especially in South Africa
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase simply combines the noun 'apartheid' with the country name 'South Africa' to indicate the system/policy of apartheid as it occurred in that country; this meaning is directly derivable from the constituents rather than idiomatic. The compositional logic is straightforward and mirrored in other languages (e.g., 'aparthied en Sudáfrica'), so a learner who knows the parts will understand it.
Etymology
Apartheid South Africa comes from the Afrikaans word apartheid, which literally means 'apartness'. It refers to the time from 1948 to the early 1990s when laws kept people of different races apart and treated non-white people unfairly, so the name now stands for that system of racial separation.