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  • verb Alternative spelling of balkanize.

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  • verb divide a territory into small, hostile states

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Examples

  • In it Raynsford effectively admits that regions are an attempt to balkanise England.

    An English Parliament - It's Part of the Solution, Not the Problem 2006

  • He pledged to perpetuate the criminal bantustan system, further to balkanise our country and to continue the land dispossession of the African majority, which is confined to a little more than ten percent of

    ANC Today 2006

  • To those who sought to balkanise our country into separate entities as a way of entrenching the ideology and practice of racism, as well as those who thought that this country belongs to one race to the exclusion of others, the Freedom

    ANC Today 2001

  • To those who sought to balkanise our country into separate entities as a way of entrenching the ideology and practice of racism, as well as those who thought that this country belongs to one race to the exclusion of others, the Freedom Charter's message is clear and simple - South Africa belongs to all who live in it!

    ANC Today 2001

  • To those who sought to balkanise our country into separate entities as a way of entrenching the ideology and practice of racism, as well as those who thought that this country belongs to one race to the exclusion of others, the Freedom Charter's message is clear and simple - South Africa belongs to all who live in it!

    ANC Today 2001

  • We have to approach this challenge conscious of the fact that we do not unwittingly promote the interests of those whose aim has always been to balkanise the country along ethnic and racial lines.

    POLITICAL REPORT OF THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, TO THE 49TH NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA 1994

  • We have to approach this challenge conscious of the fact that we do not unwittingly promote the interests of those whose aim has always been to balkanise the country along ethnic and racial lines.

    OPENING ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA - 49th NATIONAL CONFERENCE 1994

  • "It underlines the ruthless intent of hardliners in the administration to implement the reckless plans to balkanise the country into ethnic impoverished homelands," said the DP's

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1992

  • National Party tried over decades to balkanise South Africa and failed.

    STATEMENT ON THE IFP CONSTITUTIONAL PROPOSALS 1992

  • National Party tried over decades to balkanise South Africa and failed.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1992

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