(in South Africa under apartheid) a threat perceived as being posed by black people to whites.
as modifier the party got into power on the swart gevaar ticket
Example sentencesExamples
- This was nothing more than political mischief and ‘swart gevaar’ tactics.
- The swart gevaar (` Black danger ’) was thought to be everywhere present.
- My betrayal rests with the fact that this whole ‘swart gevaar’ and all that, never existed.
- This smacks too much of the ‘swart gevaar’ (black threat) paranoia that was the mood of the apartheid leaders for too many years in South Africa.
- In both cities, whites rushed to buy arms and ammunition for protection against the so-called swart gevaar (black peril) - although at no time were any white communities threatened.