Apartheid
noun
A policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race, especially in South Africa from 1948 to 1994.
Apartheid was a dark period in South Africa's history that led to division and conflict.
Often appears as...
- end of apartheid
- apartheid era
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Disapproving
Historical
noun
Any similar system or practice that separates people according to race, class, or ethnic group.
Some critics argue that the city's housing policy amounts to a form of economic apartheid.
Often appears as...
- economic apartheid
- educational apartheid
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Disapproving
Academic
noun
A policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race, especially in South Africa from 1948 to 1994.
Apartheid was a dark period in South Africa's history that led to division and conflict.
Often appears as...
- end of apartheid
- apartheid era
Usage tips
Disapproving
Historical
noun
Any similar system or practice that separates people according to race, class, or ethnic group.
Some critics argue that the city's housing policy amounts to a form of economic apartheid.
Often appears as...
- economic apartheid
- educational apartheid
Usage tips
Disapproving
Academic
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Pro Tip 1/3South African Origin
Apartheid specifically refers to South Africa's legalized racial segregation from 1948 to 1994.
The biography discusses Nelson Mandela's opposition to apartheid.
Pro Tip 2/3Historically Weighted
The term carries heavy historical weight and connotations of oppression and injustice.
History classes often tackle the issue of apartheid in depth.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Sensitivity
Use with care, considering its association with human rights violations and suffering.
The museum exhibit about apartheid evoked strong emotions.
Pro Tip 1/3South African Origin
Apartheid specifically refers to South Africa's legalized racial segregation from 1948 to 1994.
The biography discusses Nelson Mandela's opposition to apartheid.
Pro Tip 2/3Historically Weighted
The term carries heavy historical weight and connotations of oppression and injustice.
History classes often tackle the issue of apartheid in depth.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Sensitivity
Use with care, considering its association with human rights violations and suffering.
The museum exhibit about apartheid evoked strong emotions.
Pro Tip 1/3South African Origin
Apartheid specifically refers to South Africa's legalized racial segregation from 1948 to 1994.
The biography discusses Nelson Mandela's opposition to apartheid.
Pro Tip 2/3Historically Weighted
The term carries heavy historical weight and connotations of oppression and injustice.
History classes often tackle the issue of apartheid in depth.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Sensitivity
Use with care, considering its association with human rights violations and suffering.
The museum exhibit about apartheid evoked strong emotions.
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The urgent need for...
on this project what would you make of his design I'm very excited about it I think it's it's got the features that we want it's a place that will be beautiful it's a place that will tell a hard story a necessary story but you can't go to South Africa without seeing these incredibly difficult but important monuments and memorials to apartheid you
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The way we think about...
our organizations are tiny up against them, and we have a belief system that keeps them tiny. We have two rulebooks. We have one for the nonprofit sector, and one for the rest of the economic world. It's an apartheid, and it discriminates against the nonprofit sector in five different areas,
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How teachers can help...
he said that that event represented divorce between black children and their families, because their families had grown up under apartheid, and they knew how dangerous it was to speak out. They wanted their kids to lay low and stay safe. And when our kids threatened to walk out,
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In uncertain times,...
That's what social justice work is, and that's what mothers do. We act in the present with an idea of the future that we want to bring about. All of the best ideas seem impossible at first. But just in my lifetime, we've seen the end of apartheid,
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Wiring a web for global...
and he summarized the challenge for us all. He said in his lifetime he had climbed a great mountain, the mountain of challenging and then defeating racial oppression and defeating apartheid. He said that there was a greater challenge ahead,
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The energy Africa needs...
Africans need and deserve that same capacity for adaptation. Third, imposing mitigation on the world's poor is widening economic inequality. We're creating energy apartheid. Working in global energy and development, I often hear people say,
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Storytellers Summit Day...
and apartheid past and so every single day I see resilience I see strength I see dignity and pride the industry of photography is not separate to the industry to the world which we photograph not only are so many of us
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Vusi Mahlasela: "Thula...
those women who refused to dwindle in the midst of apartheid. And, of course, I’m dedicating it also to my grandmother, whom I think really played quite a lot of important roles,
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Paul Pholeros: How to...
he said that like slavery and apartheid, "Poverty is not natural. It is man-made and can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings." I want to end by saying
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How does the Nobel Peace...
They include Desmond Tutu for his nonviolent campaign against apartheid in South Africa, Jody Williams for her campaign to ban and clear anti-personnel mines,
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The urgent need for...
on this project what would you make of his design I'm very excited about it I think it's it's got the features that we want it's a place that will be beautiful it's a place that will tell a hard story a necessary story but you can't go to South Africa without seeing these incredibly difficult but important monuments and memorials to apartheid you
Video examples
The way we think about...
our organizations are tiny up against them, and we have a belief system that keeps them tiny. We have two rulebooks. We have one for the nonprofit sector, and one for the rest of the economic world. It's an apartheid, and it discriminates against the nonprofit sector in five different areas,
Video examples
How teachers can help...
he said that that event represented divorce between black children and their families, because their families had grown up under apartheid, and they knew how dangerous it was to speak out. They wanted their kids to lay low and stay safe. And when our kids threatened to walk out,
Video examples
In uncertain times,...
That's what social justice work is, and that's what mothers do. We act in the present with an idea of the future that we want to bring about. All of the best ideas seem impossible at first. But just in my lifetime, we've seen the end of apartheid,
Video examples
Wiring a web for global...
and he summarized the challenge for us all. He said in his lifetime he had climbed a great mountain, the mountain of challenging and then defeating racial oppression and defeating apartheid. He said that there was a greater challenge ahead,
Video examples
The energy Africa needs...
Africans need and deserve that same capacity for adaptation. Third, imposing mitigation on the world's poor is widening economic inequality. We're creating energy apartheid. Working in global energy and development, I often hear people say,
Video examples
Storytellers Summit Day...
and apartheid past and so every single day I see resilience I see strength I see dignity and pride the industry of photography is not separate to the industry to the world which we photograph not only are so many of us
Video examples
Vusi Mahlasela: "Thula...
those women who refused to dwindle in the midst of apartheid. And, of course, I’m dedicating it also to my grandmother, whom I think really played quite a lot of important roles,
Video examples
Paul Pholeros: How to...
he said that like slavery and apartheid, "Poverty is not natural. It is man-made and can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings." I want to end by saying
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How does the Nobel Peace...
They include Desmond Tutu for his nonviolent campaign against apartheid in South Africa, Jody Williams for her campaign to ban and clear anti-personnel mines,
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Richard Attenborough
English Actor
If I were able to write, I probably would. But movies have given me a part of my life where I can express feelings and bring convictions to an audience as if I could write. So I made 'Gandhi' about human relations, prejudice and the empire. In 'Cry Freedom' I expressed my horror and disgust about apartheid.
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Justin Cartwright
British Novelist
The working-class Africans are not doing very well, and one of the problems is their education is so shocking. It is routinely said it is a result of apartheid. Deliberately, black people were not allowed to know too much. They could read and write a bit to be useful, but that's about it.
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Desmond Tutu
South African Leader
The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.
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Lauren Beukes
South African Novelist
Being a journalist, being exposed to the world, to social injustice, to intolerance, growing up here, under apartheid, benefitting from that, has all shaped who I am and what my passions are, and of course that's going to come through in my writing.
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Naomi Campbell
British Model
I've been offered jobs by companies that supported apartheid many times in the 25 years of my modeling career, but I have never taken one of them. I have to refuse that money, because I'm not going to work against my people. They've suffered enough.
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Caster Semenya
South African Athlete
Yes, I learned history at school; I know everything about apartheid. My dad, he bought the books about it, stuff like that. But I just move on with my life. It's completely different for me.
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Athol Fugard
South African Playwright
My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't really have a function as a useful artist in that anymore.
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Alice Walker
American Author
Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.
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Kanye West
American Rapper
I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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Richard Attenborough
English Actor
If I were able to write, I probably would. But movies have given me a part of my life where I can express feelings and bring convictions to an audience as if I could write. So I made 'Gandhi' about human relations, prejudice and the empire. In 'Cry Freedom' I expressed my horror and disgust about apartheid.
Quote examples
Justin Cartwright
British Novelist
The working-class Africans are not doing very well, and one of the problems is their education is so shocking. It is routinely said it is a result of apartheid. Deliberately, black people were not allowed to know too much. They could read and write a bit to be useful, but that's about it.
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Desmond Tutu
South African Leader
The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.
Quote examples
Lauren Beukes
South African Novelist
Being a journalist, being exposed to the world, to social injustice, to intolerance, growing up here, under apartheid, benefitting from that, has all shaped who I am and what my passions are, and of course that's going to come through in my writing.
Quote examples
Naomi Campbell
British Model
I've been offered jobs by companies that supported apartheid many times in the 25 years of my modeling career, but I have never taken one of them. I have to refuse that money, because I'm not going to work against my people. They've suffered enough.
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Caster Semenya
South African Athlete
Yes, I learned history at school; I know everything about apartheid. My dad, he bought the books about it, stuff like that. But I just move on with my life. It's completely different for me.
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Athol Fugard
South African Playwright
My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't really have a function as a useful artist in that anymore.
Quote examples
Alice Walker
American Author
Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.
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Kanye West
American Rapper
I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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