(in South Africa under apartheid) a threat perceived as being posed by black people to whites.
〈南非〉黑祸(白人认为黑人对他们造成的威胁)
as modifierthe party got into power on the swart gevaar ticket
Example sentencesExamples
This was nothing more than political mischief and ‘swart gevaar’ tactics.
The swart gevaar (` Black danger ’) was thought to be everywhere present.
My betrayal rests with the fact that this whole ‘swart gevaar’ and all that, never existed.
This smacks too much of the ‘swart gevaar’ (black threat) paranoia that was the mood of the apartheid leaders for too many years in South Africa.
In both cities, whites rushed to buy arms and ammunition for protection against the so-called swart gevaar (black peril) - although at no time were any white communities threatened.