Example sentences for: apartheid

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

  • "This is a time to support apartheid because it is unfashionable."

  • Other uncontroversial Afrikaans items include political and culinary terms widely used in South Africa, e.g., apartheid and biltong strips of sun-dried lean meat.

  • In its pages can be found linguistic traces of the former rivalry between Boer and Briton, the naming practices of the Khoi and San (Hottentot and Bushman in former terms), racial conflict (derogatory terms like Boer, Kaffir, and Hottentot each have more than a page devoted to them), the political discourse of the apartheid regime, and the counter-discourse of the resistance movements.

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

  • After the collapse of the apartheid state-security apparatus, worldwide crime syndicates from Colombia, Nigeria, and Thailand set up operations in South Africa.


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