Here are some examples of how "equal" and "beneficial" apartheid was.

-Black children had only 1/10th the funding of white children in education and made it so children were only qualified for basic menial labor.
-Black hospitals were severely understaffed and underfunded, if there was a hospital in a specific area at all
-Black areas seldom had clean running water or electricity
-Blacks were prohibited from living, working, and sometimes even entering white areas ("homelands")

And you wonder why South Africa has problems today. The blacks have reaped what the Afrikaans have sown.