Swart gevaar

Swart Gevaar (Afrikaans). Translated into English as black threat. A term referred to during the days of the Apartheid South African regime. It refers to a perceived security threat to the then white South African Government from the black African population.

In the early days of post-Apartheid South Africa, the term was expanded to refer to a cultural 'black threat', in which many white Afrikaners feared their culture would be lost if they assimilated with the rest of black South Africans.

See also the South African term Rooi Gevaar ('Red Threat','Communist Threat).