Apartheid

noun

1. An official policy of racial segregation formerly practiced in the Republic of South Africa, involving political, legal, and economic discrimination against nonwhites.
   
2. A policy or practice of separating or segregating groups.
3. The condition of being separated from others; segregation.

Apartheid is an Afrikaans^[19] word meaning "separateness", or "the state of being apart", literally "apart-hood" (from the Afrikaans suffix -heid).^[20][21] Its first recorded use was in 1929.^[9]