Example sentences for: apartheid

How can you use “apartheid” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Mandela received a unanimously fond farewell . Former apartheid supporters called him "a saintly man," and a conservative white paper declared that he will be "sorely missed."

  • Four years after apartheid's end, press accounts of South Africa's transition to multiracial democracy tell a muddled tale.

  • When the National Party took power in 1948, it imposed apartheid , disenfranchising and officially segregating the country's black majority.

  • If we want to get into evil empires and who supports them, conservatives have a great deal to answer for: South African apartheid and other anti-democratic regimes around the globe--and don't forget the genocidal Khmer Rouge, supported, not by Russia, but by the US govt!

  • "He fired the pride of African Americans and touched a deep desire in the psyche of Americans, both black and white, for a leader who might rekindle the bi-racial coalition that destroyed their country's own version of apartheid in the 1960s, the racism they are still fighting to eradicate today, and the never-ending scandals.


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