apartheid

n.	1.	segregation by race; - a term used in South Africa.
	2.	the official policy of strict segregation by race practised by the government of the Union of South Africa up to 1993.

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apartheid - a social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against non-whites; the former official policy in South Africa

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