Apartheid elevated all whites as the ruling class, not just Afrikaners.

Evidence

The surging Afrikaner middle class – once South Africa’s poor white problem of Triomf legacy – provides many of the middlemen for its current tourist trade. Neoliberalism’s racial secularization turns out to fuel some of the very same people apartheid’s racial sacralization was supposed to uplift. Only better so, neither history nor conscience withstanding. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1611 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Apartheid unified all whites as beneficiaries, not just Afrikaners, beyond mere demographic expediency — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1491; Racial naturalism joined with religiosity to unify South African whites into a ruling class — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1435; Colonial white elites united in excluding colored and Black middle classes from power — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1156 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism economically rescues the same Afrikaners apartheid ideology uplifted #complicates (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1611