Sentence examples for apartheid terms from inspiring English sources

Chester Williams may look black to the outsider, but he is mixed-race: in old South Africa he was labelled coloured, which, in apartheid terms, meant having status above the black majority although below the privileged white.

He grew up in Durban in a ghetto set aside for "coloreds," the apartheid term for mixed-race residents.

The Dutch in Cape Province gave the terms apartheid, commandeer, commando, spoor, and trek to South African speech.

In legal terms, apartheid had three main pillars: The Race Classification Act, which classified every citizen suspected of not being European according to race.

Why is it that the term "apartheid" is applied to Israel, where Arabs and Jews live together, while it is assumed that ethnic cleansing of Jews from the West Bank must precede the establishment of a Palestinian state?

The Afrikaans term apartheid means "apart and aside" and evokes one of the most brutal regimes in modern history.

Media coverage and protests highlighted racism in the country to explain the discriminatory decision, and many used terms like "apartheid" and "ethnic cleansing" to describe the government's deportations last summer.

In 2008 in an interview during his election campaign, Barack Obama explicitly rejected "injecting a term like apartheid" into the discussion over Israel and Palestine.

In it, he portrays the crusaders as a society of Frankish immigrants living in complete political and social segregation from the local Muslim and Syro-Christian population, and terms this phenomenon "Apartheid".

COMMENT about the recent release of Nelson Mandela, the black South African leader against apartheid, from a 27-year-term in prison.

Discrimination — "age apartheid" might be a better term — is one way to describe what's going on here: no country sorts its population more ruthlessly by age.