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- Dictionaryapartheid/əˈpɑːteɪt/
noun
- 1. (in South Africa) a policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race. historical
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System of racial segregation and oppression based on skin colour in South Africa, introduced in 1948 and abolished in the years 1991 to 1994
Apartheid was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa from 1948 to the early 1990s. It was characterised by an authoritarian political culture based on baasskap, which ensured that South Africa was dominated politically, socially, and economically by the nation's minority white population. In this minoritarian system, there was social str... Wikipedia