Are you arguing that the preferential treatment of Naspers was affirmative action under any other name? If we were talking about a straight business transaction, an open tender, I would agree with you, as long as the same rules of preferential Afrikaner upliftment were equally applied to each tender.  Party funding by businesses is also, as you say, normal and natural. However, if Naspers had been selling canned peaches and was funding the Nationalist Party as a quid pro quo in return for a lucrative government contract, would you still think it was OK? I would argue that that would be corruption, even if the beneficiaries on both sides were still traumatised and disadvantaged after a terrible atrocity, as the Boers were at that time, and as black people are today. But this deal wasn't canned peaches. This was the manipulation of minds. Propaganda. Even in the context of the day, it was a devil's deal.