thumb|J. G. Strijdom, [[Prime Minister of South Africa (1954–1958), an uncompromising supporter of baaskap ]] Baasskap () (also spelled baaskap), literally "boss-ship" or "boss-hood", was a political philosophy prevalent during South African apartheid that advocated the social, political and economic domination of South Africa by its minority white population generally and by Afrikaners in particular. The term is sometimes translated to the English-language as "Chief in Charge" and functioned either as a description or an endorsement of the "owner of slaves" in South Africa.
thumb|J. G. Strijdom, [[Prime Minister of South Africa (1954–1958), an uncompromising supporter of baaskap ]] Baasskap () (also spelled baaskap), literally "boss-ship" or "boss-hood", was a political philosophy prevalent during South African apartheid that advocated the social, political and economic domination of South Africa by its minority white population generally and by Afrikaners in particular. The term is sometimes translated to the English-language as "Chief in Charge" and functioned either as a description or an endorsement of the "owner of slaves" in South Africa.
== Proponents == Proponents of baasskap constituted the largest faction of apartheid ideologues in the National Party and state institutions. They applied racial segregation in a systematic way to "preserve racial purity" and to ensure that economic and political spheres were dominated by Afrikaners. However, proponents of baasskap were not necessarily opposed to black South African participation in the economy if black labour was controlled in a way that preserved economic domination by Afrikaners.
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