Recently I read the article about Boerehaat on Wikipedia, which is basically a term used to describe British people that hate Afrikaners. the Apartheid section talks about how it was misused by Afrikaner white nationalists around the 1970s to demonize any white or black anti-apartheid activists by claiming they hate Boers.
This is awfully confusing to me because I'm pretty sure Afrikaners had nothing to do with the Apartheid. Britain seemed to used to hate them enough to declare wars on them twice. They've been living in the vicinity of modern day South Africa and had good relationships with black SAs AFAIK. Why would any Afrikaner back then know enough about the apartheid and care about the apartheid enough to strongly support it? Is there any context I am missing that indicates this?
I am not trying to express any opinions, I'm just confused. It would make more sense for a black SA pro-apartheid person to exist since they have reason to care about it, as they are directly affected.
I undertstand I may be simplifying things severely, but I have no idea where else I'd learn more about this specifically because when I google Afrikaners and Apartheid I tend to get pages on british colonists and white supremacists living in Africa, nothing about the Afrikaners.
This post by u/Billydeewilliams1990 , whilst not directly answering your post goes into some detail on your question, especially challenging your view that the Afrikaaners had nothing to do with the creation of Apartheid, claiming the contrary. This chain of posts by a deleted user goes into some detail on the establishment of Apartheid. You might find this link, from the aforementioned comment string, especially informative. Please note that I myself do not know a lot about the history of South Africa and just found the post by googling, because your question puzzled me. It would, of course, be nice to heve some input on your hypothesis from an actual historian. =)