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In a 2007 interview with the nonprofit group Democracy Now!, he called the word apartheid — which means “apartness” in Afrikaans — “exactly accurate.”

Afrikaans evolved among white settlers and comes from the Dutch word for African.

Mbonambi denied the accusation, saying he had used an Afrikaans phrase that had been misconstrued, and World Rugby decided there was insufficient evidence to charge him.

Afrikaans is not specifically mentioned in the legislation, but the ANC says that some children are being excluded from schools where the language of the white-minority Afrikaners is used as the medium of instruction.

The National Party formalized racial segregation policies in a system known as apartheid, an Afrikaans word that means “apartness” or “separateness.”