Sentences with 'apartheid'
Example sentences and phrases with the word apartheid and other words derived from it.
• « South Africa gained independence from Britain in 1961, but apartheid remained the backbone of the South African legal system, systematically repressing and oppressing the majority black population. »
• « Even when overtly racist laws were repealed elsewhere - notably in the United States as a result of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s - apartheid remained resolutely intact. »
• « The apartheid system would remain in place until 1991, when the system finally collapsed and long-imprisoned anti-apartheid activist leader Nelson Mandela was released, soon becoming South Africa's first black president. »
• « With the controversial tour of New Zealand by the South African Springboks rugby team, many New Zealanders were unhappy because the South Africans were still involved in apartheid. The tour was approved by the New Zealand Rugby Football Union, and the Government didn't intervene because the Prime Minister, Robert Muldoon, had a policy that politics shouldn't interfere with sport. »