Had you ever been to South Africa, prior to the fall of the Nationalist Government? When I was there for an extended trip (six weeeks), I was impressed by how little red tape there was for a young person, who wanted to start a business from scratch.
I think that the point that your education simply denied you, was that the different peoples within the borders of South Africa were not and never had been a single Nation. South Africa was a land of many Nations, and what "Apartheid" was all about, was not suppressing any of those Nations, but allowing them to preserve their respective heritages as separate Nations, without continuing the centralized control that had been a remnant of the Colonial system. Apartheid was never an accomplished result, but a work in progress, intended to allow each of the respective peoples control of their own affairs, their own areas, and their own cultures.
All over Africa, not just in countries with White and Black, Brown and Yellow peoples coming together, you will find today, Black (Negro) tribal groups suppressing and even massacring other Black tribal groups, unfortunate enough to be out of power and favor. This goes on not despite the theories of so-called "Liberals" in the West, but precisely because of the brutal application of those theories in the foreign policies of the great powers. Those people who were murdered in Rwanda, Nigeria, the Congo, Angola, etc., to mention but a few Black on Black instances, were murdered because of the same vicious Socialist mindset that attacked South Africa. (For the American Left's sickening role in all of this, see An American Foreign Policy.
William Flax