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apartheid
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The former South African policy of racial segregation of other groups from the white inhabitants. Adopted by the successful Afrikaner National Party as a slogan in the 1948 election, apartheid extended and institutionalized existing racial segregation.
The word is recorded from the 1940s, and comes from Afrikaans, meaning literally ‘separateness’.
Subjects: Social sciences
