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apartheid

[ uh-pahr-tahyt, -teyt ]

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noun

(in the Republic of South Africa) a rigid former policy of segregating and economically and politically oppressing the nonwhite population.
any system or practice that separates people according to color, ethnicity, caste, etc.

apartheid

/ əˈpɑːthaɪt; -heɪt /

(in South Africa) the official government policy of racial segregation; officially renounced in 1992

apartheid

The racist policy ( see racism ) of South Africa that long denied blacks and other nonwhites civic, social, and economic equality with whites. It was dismantled during the 1990s. ( See Nelson Mandela .)

First recorded in 1945–50; from Afrikaans apart apart + -heid -hood

C20: Afrikaans, from apart apart + -heid -hood

Before Fidel, when segregation was in full swing, the Cuban apartheid meant many clubs and parks still refused black Cubans entry.

The more violent aspect of the anti-apartheid movement was, safe to say, largely lost on Occidental College protestors.

Unsurprisingly, the thuggish Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe was among the first, along with then-apartheid South Africa.

Israel is not a perfect state, but it is nothing like apartheid South Africa, says a writer who has lived in both countries.

In Britain, bans on same-sex marriages were described as “a form of sexual apartheid.”

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