Sentence examples for apartheid from inspiring English sources
The word "apartheid" is correct and can be used in written English
You can use it to refer to the system of racial segregation that was practiced in South Africa from 1948-1994. For example: "The Apartheid system in South Africa resulted in decades of suffering and oppression for South Africa's non-white population."
verb
To impose a policy of segregation of groups of people, especially one based on race.
In 1992, South Africa was in the middle negotiations to end apartheid.
Leon Lotz was once a member of the Koevoet – "crowbar" in Afrikaans – a paramilitary police unit created by South Africa's apartheid regime to root out guerrillas in what is now Namibia.
Since 1994, we have worked tirelessly to rebuild our country and to reverse the legacy of apartheid colonialism.
Couto reminded him of the "high price" South Africa's neighbouring countries, including Mozambique, paid in supporting the liberation of apartheid.
The UN human rights chief, Navi Pillay, has compared the uproar in the international community caused by revelations of mass surveillance with the collective response that helped bring down the apartheid regime in South Africa.
"The new Israeli cabinet has shown its commitment to consolidate an apartheid regime in occupied Palestine, as well as to continue its incitement campaign against Palestinians, sending the message that Palestinian lives, history and culture don't matter.
Ostana Kera, Kleto Sirache by Kalinka Vulcheva (1974) In the 70s, being a communist basically meant going to charity fundraisers all the time, for striking Turkish miners, striking British miners, anti-apartheid.
He was politically active in New Zealand against the Vietnam war and the presence of American nuclear ships, and in 1981 during the Springboks' tour was arrested when the Hamilton game was disrupted by anti-apartheid protesters.
Tom Wolmarans, an apartheid-era policeman, said: "There's no work for white people in South Africa.
I was in my early 20s, a student at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, and deeply involved in the anti-apartheid movement.
South Africa also boasts a post-apartheid constitution that explicitly affirms equality and non-discrimination on the basis of sexuality and gender.
