baaskap


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baaskap

(ˈbɑːsˌkap) or

baasskap

n
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (sometimes capital) (formerly in South Africa) control by White people of non-White people
[from baas + -skap -ship]
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The principle of baaskap or white supremacy underpinned the policy of apartheid applied by the NP To quote Mandela, they believed that "Afrikaners were God's chosen people and that Blacks were a subservient species" (159) and thus inevitably created what Amin Maalouf called "des identities meurtrieres."
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This finding also possibly confirms that the relevance of the historically dominant White, baaskap (6) masculinity, is no longer as superior as it once was (Morrell, 2001).
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In this definition, two significant features emerge: namely, the surveillance and 'baaskap' assumed by the settler, always 'checking out,' which, in an ironic reversal is interpreted by the black farm labourers as inherent laziness, and in another twist, the reversal of the zoological terms reserved by the settler to mark the condition of the native.
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