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Definition: Apartheid from Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

A policy adopted by the Afrikaner National Party in 1948 to ensure the dominance of the white minority. It divided South Africa into separate areas for whites, ‘coloureds’ and blacks, causing the country's withdrawal from the British Commonwealth in 1961 and leading to rioting, repression and isolation from other nations. Limited constitutional rights were granted to non-whites in 1985, and the remaining apartheid laws were repealed in 1991.


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From Cultural Sociology of the Middle East, Asia, and Africa
Apartheid means “separateness” or “apartness” in Afrikaans, the language of the Afrikaners, who are descendants of the Dutch settlers of South Africa. As an ideology and statutory framework, it referred to South Africa's notorious system of rigid racial segregation, through which the ruling Afrikaner-based National Party (NP) attempted to create separate cultural, political, and social spaces for white, African, Indian, and colored (mixed race) South Africans after its electoral victory in 1948. Apartheid policy was formalized and institutionalized during the 1950s, but its origins date back to the period when South Africa was colonized by European settlers. From the start, the colonial enterprise in South Africa drew a sharp distinction between citizen and subject. Whites enjoyed the rights and benefits of citizenship while subjecting nonwhite peoples to economic exploitation and civic death. When the Dutch established a halfway station in Cape Town for their Indian shipping fleet in…
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From Key Concepts in Postcolonial Literature
Apartheid literally separated people in South Africa on the basis of their ethnic origins and skin colour. It had several phases and its implementation led to the forced movement of people, to poor living, educational and employment experiences for Black South Africans, and a great deal of violence. …
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From World of Sociology, Gale
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Apartheid, an Afrikaans word literally meaning “apartness,” refers to the policy of racial segregation and its concomitant economic and political discrimination that was adopted by the South African government for a half century. Coined in the late 1930s by the South African Bureau for Racial…
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From Philip's Encyclopedia
Policy of racial segregation practised by the South African government from 1948 to 1990. Racial inequality and restricted rights for non-whites were institutionalized when the Afrikaner -dominated National Party came to power in 1948. Officially a framework for "separate development" of races, in…
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From Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedias in Social Sciences: The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies
In South Africa, the segregated/colonial/apartheid city developed through racist planning frameworks. As separate development became entrenched, apartheid was not just a fixed plan that simply transformed from theory into an urban spatial form. It ultimately responded to local and international…
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From Encyclopedia of South Africa
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An Afrikaans word, apartheid (apartness) (pronounced apart-hate) was the name given to the broad array of discriminatory laws and policies adopted by the National Party to secure white supremacy in South Africa after 1948. During the first two and a half decades of National Party rule, Prime…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(Әpärt'hīt) [Afrik.,=apartness], system of racial segregation peculiar to the Republic of South Africa, the legal basis of which was largely repealed in 1991–92. Racial segregation and the supremacy of whites had been traditionally accepted in South Africa prior to 1948, but in the general election…
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Racial-segregation policy of the government of South Africa from 1948 to 1994. Under the apartheid system, non-whites – classified as Bantu (black), coloured (mixed), or Indian – did not share full rights of citizenship with the white minority. For example, black people could not vote in…
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From Global Dictionary of Theology
The tragedy of apartheid and the miracle of its demise is a significant chapter in the story of global Christianity in the twentieth century. This is because South Africa was so deeply shaped by both the Protestant Christianity of the white settlers and a hugely influential Protestant missionary…
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From Encyclopedia of African-American Politics
Apartheid was the system of rigid racial segregation established by the government of South Africa in 1948. The word literally means separation of the races, but it also implied brasskap , the word among South Africans for white domination. Although apartheid in South Africa was frequently compared…
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Introduction Apartheid was the system of government that lasted in South Africa from 1948 until 1994. Under apartheid, black people did not have equal rights with white people. They were not allowed to use the same facilities as white people, intermarry, or mix with white people as equals. Although…
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