Proper noun
Apartheid South Africa (uncountable)
(exonym, colloquial) South Africa from 1948 to 1991, when the apartheid policy was in force (some definitions may include pre-1948 and extend it to 1994).
For most of my writing life, I've refused to allow myself to believe that writing was a significant form of action. I always felt very uneasy about the fact that all I did was write in a situation as desperate as apartheid South Africa. Whether I was correct or not is a different issue. Athol Fugard