South African whites lost political power but retained economic privilege after apartheid.

Evidence

However, whiteness is historically linked to privilege. Whiteness is almost universally a racial or ethnic category that also offers the opportunity to maintain this privilege. In South Africa, this privilege manifested itself in terms of both political power and economic advantage, which was reserved for white South Africans. While political power is no longer the privilege of white South Africans, economic privilege continues. — Cornel Verwey and Michael Quayle, Whiteness, racism, and Afrikaner…, 38

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reading purpose: privilege that survives loss of political dominance is precisely the condition under which grievance narratives might persist decoupled from power. — connects to: The apartheid of race has been subsumed into an apartheid of class — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1592; Post-apartheid growth produced extreme racial wealth stratification despite formal color blindness — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1600; Economic white privilege persisted undiminished after 1994. — Cornel Verwey and Michael Quayle, Whiteness, racism, and Afrikaner…, 145 (+2 more)
• ADDENDUM: Parallels the sacrifice paper’s theme of stratification surviving regime change; and the immodesty paper’s class-signaling-through-status markers.

Broader Connections

• Economic white privilege persisted undiminished after 1994. #expands (1.00) — Cornel Verwey and Michael Quayle, Whiteness, racism, and Afrikaner…, 145
• The apartheid of race has been subsumed into an apartheid of class #expands (0.95) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1592
• Post-apartheid growth produced extreme racial wealth stratification despite formal color blindness #expands (0.95) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1600