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Malan's platform was known as apartheid.†
Chpt 2.8 *

apartheid = a system that unfairly treats people of a different race
Apartheid was a new term but an old idea.†
Chpt 2.8
The premise of apartheid was that whites were superior to Africans, Coloureds, and Indians, and the function of it was to entrench white supremacy forever.†
Chpt 2.8
The policy was supported by the Dutch Reform Church, which furnished apartheid with its religious underpinnings by suggesting that Afrikaners were God's chosen people and that blacks were a subservient species.†
Chpt 2.8
In the Afrikaner's worldview, apartheid and the church went hand in hand.†
Chpt 2.8
Even General Smuts realized the dangers of this harsh ideology, decrying apartheid as "a crazy concept, born of prejudice and fear."†
Chpt 2.8
Malan introduced the Group Areas Act—which he described as "the very essence of apartheid"—requiring separate urban areas for each racial group.†
Chpt 2.8
The Day of Protest boosted our morale, made us realize our strength, and sent a warning to the Malan government that we would not remain passive in the face of apartheid.†
Chpt 2.8
Apart from the Suppression of Communism Act, two laws passed in 1950 formed the cornerstones of apartheid: the PopulationRegistration Act and the Group Areas Act.†
Chpt 2.9
The Group Areas Act was the foundation of residential apartheid.†
Chpt 2.9
The government viewed any protest against apartheid as a crime.†
Chpt 2.9
Under the Suppression of Communism Act, the government outlawed the Communist Party—an ally of the ANC and other anti-apartheid organizations.†
Chpt 2.9
The government could ban anyone it suspected of anti-apartheid activity, whether or not there was evidence of such activity.†
Chpt 2.9
Thefirm provided legal assistance to Africans accused of violations of apartheid laws such as drinking from a whites-only fountain, riding a whites-only bus, not carrying an identification pass book (required of all Africans), having the wrong signature on a pass book, being unemployed, and being employed by the wrong place.†
Chpt 2.9
Mass protests against apartheid had continued throughout the 1950's, resulting in the deaths of dozens of Africans killed by the police.†
Chpt 3.11
The Prime Minister ignored Mandela's letter, and the government reinforced its attack on anti-apartheid activities.†
Chpt 3.11
Under apartheid, a black man lived a shadowy life between legality and illegality, between openness and concealment.†
Chpt 3.11
Goldreich and Mandela were joined by other workers, including a foreman, Mr. Jelliman, a retired white who supported the anti-apartheid movement.†
Chpt 4.13
In apartheid South Africa, the penalties for these "crimes" could be as much as ten years in prison.†
Chpt 5.14
It confirmed to me how apartheid was a poison that bred moral decay in all areas.†
Chpt 5.15
The government had decided to accelerate the program of "separate development" to show the world that apartheid allowed races their individual "freedom."†
Chpt 5.18
A group of experts at the U.N. urged a national convention for South Africa that would lead to a truly representative parliament, and recommended an amnesty for all opponents of apartheid.†
Chpt 5.22
Apartheid's regulations extended even to clothing.†
Chpt 6.24
The campaign to improve conditions in prison was part of the apartheid struggle.†
Chpt 6.29
I explained that as political prisoners we saw protest to alter prison conditions as an extension of the antiapartheid struggle.†
Chpt 6-31

antiapartheid = opposed to a system that unfairly treats people of a different race

standard prefix: The prefix "anti-" in antiapartheid means against or opposite. This is the same pattern you see in words like antiviral, antiaircraft, and antisocial.
Verwoerd had proved to be both the chief theorist and master builder of grand apartheid.†
Chpt 6-33

apartheid = a system that unfairly treats people of a different race
Shortly before his death he had led the Nationalists in the general election of 1966, in which the party of apartheid had increased its majority, winning 126 seats to the 39 achieved by the United Party, and the single seat won by the Progressive Party.†
Chpt 6-33
When Winnie was finally charged—six months later—I managed to send instructions that she be represented by Joel Carlson, a longtime anti-apartheid lawyer.†
Chpt 6-35
I was convinced that this child would be a part of a newgeneration of South Africans for whom apartheid would be a distant memory—that was my dream.†
Chpt 7.47
In December 1982, MK set off explosions at the unfinished Koeberg nuclear power plant outside Cape Town and placed bombs at many other military and apartheid targets around the country.†
Chpt 8.52
Ruth, the wife of Joe Slovo, was a brave antiapartheid activist who had spent a number of months in prison.†
Chpt 8.52

antiapartheid = opposed to a system that unfairly treats people of a different race

standard prefix: The prefix "anti-" in antiapartheid means against or opposite. This is the same pattern you see in words like antiviral, antiaircraft, and antisocial.
But as Oliver said at the time of the bombing, the armed struggle was imposed upon us by the violence of the apartheid regime.†
Chpt 8.52

apartheid = a system that unfairly treats people of a different race
It was also a way of fooling the outside world into thinking that the government was reforming apartheid.†
Chpt 8.52
The UDF had been created to coordinate protest against the new apartheid constitution in 1983, and the first elections to the segregated tricameral Parliament in 1984.†
Chpt 8.52
The UDF soon blossomed into a powerful organization that united over six hundred anti-apartheid organizations—trade unions, community groups, church groups, student associations.†
Chpt 8.52
The anti-apartheid struggle as a whole had captured the attention of the world; in 1984, Bishop Desmond Tutu was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.†
Chpt 8.52
Professor Dash asked me whether I took any encouragement from the government's stated intention of repealing the mixed-marriage laws and certain other apartheid statutes.†
Chpt 8.52
Let him say that he will dismantle apartheid.†
Chpt 8.52
Let him free all who have been imprisoned, banished or exiled for their opposition to apartheid.†
Chpt 8.52
To resolve the deadlock, the assembled nations agreed that a delegation of "eminent persons" would visit South Africa and report back on whether sanctions were the appropriate tool to help bring about the end of apartheid.†
Chpt 8.54
Oliver declared that the armed struggle would intensify until the government was prepared to negotiate the abolition of apartheid.†
Chpt 8.58
In 1989, the UDF formed an alliance with the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) to form the Mass Democratic Movement (MDM), which then began organizing a countrywide "defiance campaign" of civil disobedience to challenge apartheid institutions.†
Chpt 8.60
De Klerk began a systematic dismantling of many of the building blocks of apartheid.†
Chpt 8.62
Since 1953 this act had enforced what was known as "petty apartheid," segregating parks, theaters, restaurants, buses, libraries, toilets, and other public facilities, according to race.†
Chpt 8.62
In November, he announced that the National Security Management System, a secret structure set up under P. W. Botha to combat anti-apartheid forces, would be dissolved.†
Chpt 8.62
The very first step on the road to reconciliation, I said, was the complete dismantling of apartheid and all the measures used to enforce it.†
Chpt 8.62
The government's policies were perceived by many as a continuation of apartheid by other means.†
Chpt 8.62
I added that it was not in his interest to retain this concept, for it gave the impression that he wanted to modernize apartheid without abandoning it; this was damaging his image and that of the National Party in the eyes of the progressive forces in this country and around the world.†
Chpt 8.62
I mentioned an editorial that I had recently read in Die Burger, the mouthpiece of the National Party in the Cape, implying that the group rights concept was conceived as an attempt to bring back apartheid through the back door.†
Chpt 8.62
I added that the ANC had not struggled against apartheid for seventy-five years only to yield to a disguised form of it and that if it was his true intention to preserve apartheid through the Trojan horse of group rights, then he did not truly believe in ending apartheid.†
Chpt 8.62

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(1) (apartheid)
a system that unfairly treats people of a different race in laws, jobs, and politics
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

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