apartheid
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8.1
- noun
- /əˈpɑrˌteɪd/
- Offensive
- During the years of apartheid, racial segregation was legally enforced in South Africa.
- apartheid laws
- apartheid policies
- the apartheid regime
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Watch on YouTubeHe 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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Keeping people apart because of their race, for example in schools or public places
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A belief that keeps people of different races or religions apart
Antonyms
Compounds
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A period in South Africa 1948–early 1990s when the government kept races separate and treated non-white people unfairly
- South African
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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.