endorse out
English
editVerb
editendorse out (third-person singular simple present endorses out, present participle endorsing out, simple past and past participle endorsed out)
- (South Africa) To expel (someone) from an area because he or she lacks official permission to be there.
- 1956, Harry Bloom, Episode, page 28:
- And when he came back to get the permit renewed, Du Toit said no, and endorsed him out.
- 1986, Jack Cope, Selected Stories, →ISBN, page 170:
- But his attendance there fell apart, first when his father, a worker in a motor-tyre factory, was endorsed out of the town on an Order under the Urban Areas Act.
- 1993, Alfred T. Moleah, South Africa: colonialism, apartheid and African dispossession, page 435:
- Labor bureaus became the chief agencies of identifying and weeding out "idle" and "undesirable" Africans by endorsing them out of the urban areas, and, thus, force them to re-settle in the bantustans.
- 2008, The Road to Democracy: 1950-1970, →ISBN, page 372:
- I was very close to this, because I was dealing with people, giving them houses and so on: and, in most cases, endorsing them out of Cape Town if they didn't have the proper particulars.
- 2013, Saleem Badat, The Forgotten People: Political Banishment under Apartheid, →ISBN, page 26:
- This expulsion measure was used in 1931 against the Communist Party branch in Durban, which was at the forefront of the burning of passes: Gana Makabeni was endorsed out 'to his home in the Transkei'.