apartheid

n. racial segregation and discrimination (in South Africa)

For the legal definition of apartheid, see the crime of apartheid. For other uses, see Allegations of apartheid. Apartheid (meaning separate-ness in Afrikaans, cognate to English apart and ) was a system of racial segregation in South Africa from 1948, and was dismantled in a series of negotiations from 1990 to 1993, culminating in democratic elections in 1994.
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Noun
1. a social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against non-whites; the former official policy in South Africa
(hypernym) social policy

n. apartheid, racial segregation and discrimination