baasskap

English

Alternative forms

• baaskaap, baaskap, basskap, basskaap

Etymology

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

Noun

baasskap (uncountable)

1. (South Africa) Dominion, control, or supremacy, especially of white South Africans over non-white peoples.
   • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 195:

     African teachers were not permitted to criticize the government or any school authority. It was intellectual baasskap, a way of institutionalising inferiority.

Anagrams

• basskaap