endorse out

English

Verb

endorse out (third-person singular simple present endorses out, present participle endorsing out, simple past and past participle endorsed out)

1. (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'.