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apartheid

(əpɑːʳthaɪt)
uncountable noun
Apartheid was a political system in South Africa in which people were divided into racial groups and kept apart by law.
He praised her role in the struggle against apartheid.
...the anti-apartheid movement.

apartheid in British English

(əˈpɑːthaɪt, -heɪt)
noun
(formerly in South Africa) the official government policy of racial segregation; officially renounced in 1992
Word origin
C20: Afrikaans, from apart apart + -heid -hood

apartheid in American English

(əˈpɑrˌteɪt; əˈpɑrˌtaɪt; əˈpɑrtˌtaɪd)
noun
the official policy (c. 1950-91) of strict racial segregation and discrimination against nonwhites practiced in South Africa
Word origin
Afrik, the state of being separate

Examples of 'apartheid' in a sentence
apartheid

Would the apartheid government really release him?
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
And public opinion was broadly sympathetic towards the de facto system of regional apartheid.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The isolation of the apartheid regime deepened.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
It was recognised only by the apartheid government.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The second area that ministers propose to tackle is the apartheid between the system for fostering and the system for adoption.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Brothers in arms during apartheid struggle.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
In the days of the struggle against apartheid, we were singing.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Everything is teetering; all are trying to find new identities after the struggle against apartheid.
The Times Literary Supplement (2012)
Experts blame the old apartheid race split system, which often forced men to live away from their families.
The Sun (2009)
The 81-year-old former head of the liberation struggle against apartheid said his generation was the product of religious education.
Christianity Today (2000)
Yet his writings make clear that his political views were in large part shaped by defending clients at the wrong end of the apartheid laws.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The footage caused outrage when it emerged in 2008 in a case that has raised questions about how much attitudes have changed since the apartheid era.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
We are under so much pressure here, it's like we are still under apartheid laws.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
At the time, the apartheid regime did not allow mixed-race relationships.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
This elite comprises not just the apartheid government of South Africa but also village chiefs and teachers.
Clerk, Jayana & Siegel, Ruth Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born (1995)
In South Africa the apartheid government had finally accepted that democracy had to be extended to all.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
South African wines were her other national speciality and she continued to advance the country's wines during the apartheid era.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
He left in 1964 because the apartheid regime would not let him represent the country in major competitions and came to Britain.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
At one point more than a million Africans were being arrested each year, most on technical and minor violations of apartheid laws.
Sanderson, Stephen K. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies (1995)
Its forces of freedom - the press and the law - emerged with some honour from the apartheid era and are fighting to hold the line.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
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