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RE: Inconsistencies in apartheid
Apartheid was repugnant. But one of the more interesting facts about the Afrikaner community in South Africa is that for people to whom "racializing" other "Non-Whites" became the norm, Afrikaner DNA has a larger amount of Non-White haplogroups than practically any other 'European' descent group in the world.
I think categorizing racism in South Africa as something only the Afrikaners did is shortsighted. The biggest racists during "apartheid" and today where actually the English South African whites. The Afrikaners have always been a lot more integrated, especially in the rural areas, with the local African population. Most Afrikaners from the farms and rural areas had best friends growing up that were from other races and speak African languages fluently.
Racism was/is a lot more prevalent in the suburbs where it comes down to a class issue more than a race issue.
That is a fact... when the first dutch settlers of over 100 men arrived there were only about 20 dutch women, the rest took local wives from the indigenous populations.
Afrikaans was the result of this intermingling with dutch and other languages.
I'm pretty sure discrimination of the Other is just a specialized form of selfishness. We see it everywhere from common daily racism to nationalism to immigration policies. "It's mine, and I'll share it with x, but I won't share it with y."
Group identity is a lie.