apartheid
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8.1
- noun
- /əˈpɑrˌteɪd/
- Offensive
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apartheid
- During the years of apartheid, racial segregation was legally enforced in South Africa.
- apartheid laws
- apartheid policies
- the apartheid regime
He was born in apartheid era South Africa.
- He was born in apartheid era South Africa.
- I said that apartheid was and remains a crime.
- I went into exile from apartheid South Africa as a teenager.
- If I ask a liberal, are you against apartheid, They'll say yes.
- Because in South Africa's case, apartheid lead to boycott, divestment, sanctions.
- When South African apartheid fell, you know what they were watching on TV.
- I was born as a white South African in to apartheid South Africa.
- And so it was literally illegal for him to exist under the apartheid laws that they had.
- So I was in South Africa in the apartheid era and the transition and the post.
- and they spoke about their efforts to overcome apartheid.
- Harvard didn't even divest from South Africa during the apartheid.
- And the apartheid regime was, no, you can't be equal citizens.
- It begins here, the struggle against apartheid.
- So I grew up as a white child in the white suburbs of apartheid South Africa.
- Don't ask South African whether the United Nations is relevant because United Nations helped us end apartheid and have a revolution peacefully.
- We've got a greater percentage of black people in prison than did South Africa at the height of apartheid.
Examples
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Under the oppression of apartheid, black rural miners worked under harsh conditions deep in the dark, wet mines.
Academic text (2015) -
I went into exile from apartheid South Africa as a teenager.
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And this was the time of apartheid in our country.
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I said that apartheid was and remains a crime.
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But it was in there that his vision of how to save South Africa and end apartheid came to him.
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Why do you think apartheid was necessary?
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For white South Africa, the years following the end of apartheid have been a time of particular benefit and loss.
Academic text (1999) -
The apartheid system is getting stronger by the day.
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What, in fact, might it mean to heal or recover from apartheid in South Africa?
Academic text (2008) -
In South Africa, there's apartheid, which is immoral and wrong and sure to cause a bloodbath.
Fiction book (1991)
Synonyms
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6.1
Authorities keep people apart by race or religion, often with different facilities
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6.5
Keeping people apart because of their race, for example in schools or public places
A belief that keeps people of different races or religions apart
Antonyms
Compounds
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6.7
A period in South Africa 1948–early 1990s when the government kept races separate and treated non-white people unfairly
- South African
Keeping people of different races apart in everyday public places like hotels and trains
How Segregated
Surface Forms
Etymology
Apartheid comes from Afrikaans and Dutch parts apart 'separate' and -heid 'state' or 'ness', so it literally meant a 'state of being apart' and was used for South Africa's official system of racial separation.