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apartheid

noun as in racial segregation

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There’s lots of arguments whether it’s occupation or not, whether it’s apartheid or not.

The country’s apartheid government had just packed the six-member body with five new judges in order to overcome its liberal wing.

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The National Party wouldn’t fall out of power until 1994, when Nelson Mandela led his party to victory after the end of apartheid.

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Despite being the senior justice of the court, he was twice passed over for the role of chief justice by the apartheid government — a politicized decision Davis compares to “replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg with a hack.”

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This investor-driven effort, as part of a broader boycott, ultimately helped end apartheid in South Africa.

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Before Fidel, when segregation was in full swing, the Cuban apartheid meant many clubs and parks still refused black Cubans entry.

The more violent aspect of the anti-apartheid movement was, safe to say, largely lost on Occidental College protestors.

Unsurprisingly, the thuggish Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe was among the first, along with then-apartheid South Africa.

Israel is not a perfect state, but it is nothing like apartheid South Africa, says a writer who has lived in both countries.

In Britain, bans on same-sex marriages were described as “a form of sexual apartheid.”

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On this page you'll find 8 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to apartheid, such as: discrimination, racism, and separation.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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