baasskap

Dominion, control, or supremacy, especially of white South Africans over nonwhite peoples.

Noun

  1. Dominion, control, or supremacy, especially of white South Africans over nonwhite peoples.

    South Africa

    • African teachers were not permitted to criticize the government or any school authority. It was intellectual baasskap, a way of institutionalising inferiority. - 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 195

Origin

Borrowed from Afrikaans baasskap, from baas (“boss”) + -skap (“hood”).

Forms

baaskaap baaskap basskap basskaap