A social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against people who are not Whites; the former official policy in South Africa

The crime of apartheid is defined by the 2002 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court as inhumane acts of a character similar to other crimes against humanity "committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime".

To impose a policy of segregation of groups of people, especially one based on race.