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  • Van Schalkwyk also criticised some parties in the country for having a "baaskap" approach, because it suited their political purposes to keep communities apart.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2002

  • When the Nationalist Party won on the slogan of apartheid, "baaskap," then the moment to deal with this problem in a tough and unrelenting way had arrived.

    BLACK REACTION TO APARTHEID, 1948-1973 1973

  • Any act conceived under the policy of "baaskap" and apartheid and passed by Parliament from which all non-Europeans are strictly excluded can only be in the interest of the white dominating section of

    PAPER ON THE GROUP AREAS ACT AND ITS EFFECTS ON THE INDIAN PEOPLE OF NATAL 1956

  • No policy which attempts to keep the majority of the population of South Africa under permanent subjection or "baaskap" can ever succeed.

    PAPER ON THE GROUP AREAS ACT AND ITS EFFECTS ON THE INDIAN PEOPLE OF NATAL 1956

  • In part, the ongoing popularity of the ANC relates to the continued salience of the national question for development in this province, where the old notions of baaskap are dying a hard death.

    Organisational Report 2007

  • It is amazing and tragic that a man with such an illustrious track record in struggle of politics should succumb to such baaskap political philosophy akin to Bantustan leaders.

    JOINT STATEMENT BY ANC MPS, RICHARD NTULI AND BHEKI MNYANDU 2005

  • It is amazing and tragic that a man with such an illustrious track record in struggle of politics should succumb to such baaskap political philosophyakin to Bantustan leaders.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • They will not see through the superficial machinations of modern baaskap whose heart is filled with envy at seeing the dream becoming true, of a people united in a social contract, working together black and white, to determine a better future for themselves.

    SPEECH BY NKOSINATHI NHLEKO, CHIEF WHIP OF THE MAJORITY PARTY ON THE STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS 2004

  • "The Western Cape's pursuit of an inclusive South African identity is bedevilled by ... the persistence of white privilege rooted in historical baaskap and black exclusion," the document said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • In fact, up to the mid-1950s the Ministry went by the name of Irrigation, with none other than the practitioner of apartheid baaskap, J G Strijdom, the responsible Minister.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

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