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/əˈpɑːtheɪt/ · noun
(South Africa, historical) The policy of racial segregation in South Africa from 1948 to 1994..
She don't care about the rest at all / She's got a system they call apartheid / It keeps a brother in a subjection
The premise of apartheid was that whites were superior to Africans, Coloureds and Indians, and the function of it was to entrench white supremacy forever.
The reality, however, is a disquieting and entirely white town, littered with old apartheid flags and monuments to the architects of segregation.
The 1973 Apartheid Convention conferred universal jurisdiction to the state signatories to prosecute those who commit apartheid.
When the doors of a business are open to the public, they must be open to all regardless of race if apartheid is not to become engrained in our public […] .
Jim Crow miscegenation laws enforced apartheid in marriage.
Fifteen minutes drive to the Brown Trout was guaranteed to satisfy my appetite because there, as with other clubs and hotel bars, a form of sex apartheid was practised. The males assembled in the region of the bar and the opposite gender either sat discreetly detached or strayed outside to gossip gaily among themselves.
In these annual reports, the religious apartheid practices in India are not mentioned at all.
Use apartheid when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Apartheid means (South Africa, historical) The policy of racial segregation in South Africa from 1948 to 1994..
Common synonyms include plural relations, racial segregation.
Possible antonyms include antiapartheid.
She don't care about the rest at all / She's got a system they call apartheid / It keeps a brother in a subjection
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