Which European nation(s) was/were involved in Apartheid in South Africa?

Question

Which European nation(s) was/were involved in Apartheid in South Africa?

Answer 1

I believe mainly the UK.

Regards.

Notice the enlarged 1989 photo in the 2ND link? Sad, truly sad.

Answer 2

If you are interested in this subject check out the apartheid museum website the address is www.apartheidmuseum.org which might give you a more detailed account of what you are asking. Also the National Monument Council of South Africa in Johannesburg, has a lot on the Anglo Boer war and the various concentration camps, where some have the opinion that segregation began during that time.

Answer 3

Aparthied was a product of the British Empire.

Answer 4

Mostly the Netherlands when they were still an empire and the British Empire. Even the word Apartheid is Dutch and the language Afrikaans is recognizable a version of Dutch

The virgin land of South Africa came into first European contact when Portuguese traders, in fifteenth century began trading in South Africa. Dutch started pouring in by seventeenth century, when they used Cape of Good Hope as their fueling station. These Dutch soon started settling in by pushing the original inhabitants aside. These Dutch later called themselves Afrikaners.

By nineteenth century, the British started a formal imperial rule over the Afrikaners and the native Africans by establishing themselves in Cape of Good Hope. The Imperial rule of British in South Africa leads to the difference with the Afrikaners, who were already having a conflict with the Zulu, which was an African kingdom that was itself involved in territorial expansion. The discovery of diamonds in 1867 and gold in 1886 leads to the imposition of formal British rule over South Africa and superseded all existing conflicts.

In order to ensure full profits of the diamond and gold mines into the hand of British Empire in South Africa, rigid policies like full power over the African labor and African movement were emerged. Imperialism in South Africa provoked racial discrimination later in twentieth-century, which leads to Apartheid.

Imperialism in South Africa was the main cause of the widespread racial discrimination in South Africa.  

http://www.mapsofworld.com/south-africa/...

EDIT What might also be interesting to you is that a part of the Flemish Nationalist Movement very much supported Apartheid till the very end. Where the Dutch historically have a huge responsibility but later were also one of the biggest supporters of the ANC some saw the langugage and culteral similarities as a reason to fully support Apartheid till the end and that's literally, they supported it till it ended

http://crookedtimber.org/2007/08/31/quo-...

http://www.tau.ac.il/Anti-Semitism/asw99...