Meaning Apartheid
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An Afrikans word created to describe the South African system of institutionalized segregation to maintain white domination. From the 1960’s to 1991, a plan of “Grand Apartheid” was implemented, empha [..]
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1947 (policy begun 1948), from Afrikaans apartheid (1929 in a South African socio-political context), literally "separateness," from Dutch apart "separate" (from French àpart; see [..]
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When stupid blacks were legally used as slave labour to promote a white supremist society. Coincedently during this time period the economy, health-care services and average household income increased [..]
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the opposition of political correctness
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1. A segregation of race that took place in South Africa. 2. A wicked system of considering a race more genetically superior because of taking a religion literally when it's conveniant to that [..]
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1)An official policy (now ended) of racial segregation and white supremacy enforced by the South African government. It was used to limit the governing power and place of residence of non-white people [..]
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obviously # 2 is a racist bastard who thinks being white entitles him to whatever he wants. apartheid was really a system of government designed by the Nationalist party to keep the white minority of [..]
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(1948-1993) South African government's policy of separating different races of people.
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A structure of oppression enforced by the government of South Africa in the 20th century, after Dutch invaders had conquered the majority-black inhabitants of the land and denied them basic political [..]
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Until recently, the system of strict racial segregation established in South Africa.
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Apartheid is a strategy that was used in South Africa between 1948 and 1994 as a form of racial segregation. The word itself is taken from the Afrikaans language, derived from Dutch, that is predomina [..]
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Literally, "apart-ness;" apartheid was a geographical system of racial control developed in South Africa. It operated at three scales - petty, urban, and grand (see Recitation 8) - and sough [..]
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The recent policy of racial separation in South Africa enforced by legal political and military power.
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Literally, “apartness,” in 20th-century South Africa, the policy of segregating the black majority and white minority and granting to the latter the vast preponderance of political and economic power. [..]
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In twentieth-century South Africa, the official policy of separating the races within their society legally and socially.
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inhumane acts of murder, rape, torture, enslavement or other crimes against humanity committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group [..]
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(n) a social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against people who are not Whites; the former official policy in South Africa
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A system whereby society is divided on the basis of ethnic grouping, more especially, skin colour. Found in South Africa until the mid-1990s.
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was a system of racial segregation used in South Africa from 1948 to the early 1990s. Though first used in 1917 by Jan Smuts, the future Prime Minister of South Africa, apartheid was simply an extension of the segregationist policies of previous white governments in South Africa. The term originates in Afrikaans or Dutch, where it means "separ [..]
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(historical) The discriminatory policy of racial separation used by South Africa from 1948 to 1990. * '''1994''', Nelson Mandela, ''Long Walk to Freedom'', Abacus 2010, pages 127-8: *: The premise [..]
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apartheid South African policy of racial discrimination apartheid, segregation policy or situation of discrimination based on a specified attribute
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