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  1. White Repatriation as part of the Anti-Apartheid movement

    Yes, but most of them will be mohgrels, as most people who are descended from colonial settlers will be. I myself did one of those tests and had ancestry from two populations in Africa, three in Asia, and nine in Europe. Where should I be sent back to?
  2. White Repatriation as part of the Anti-Apartheid movement

    Where in Europe would they go? Remember most SA whites don't have any official link to Europe, as in entitlement to a passport etc. There's no right of return. You would have to have some country (or countries) willing to accept five million refugees.
  3. White Repatriation as part of the Anti-Apartheid movement

    Only about 60% of SA whites are Afrikaners, the rest are Anglos.
  4. White Repatriation as part of the Anti-Apartheid movement

    Zuma wasn't a genocidaire or even much of an African nationalist, he's a corrupt tribalist Big Man. Not sure why you think he would want to deport all white South Africans.
  5. South Africa: Part of the Axis of Evil. How would George W Bush deal with Apartheid South Africa?

    In Apartheid's Friends: The Rise and Fall of South Africa's Secret Service by James Sanders there is speculation that that was exactly Verwoerd's aim. He had apparently on partitioning SA more fully and creating more contiguous and viable bantustans which was opposed by most of the NP, and that...
  6. Alternate rugby history: Rugby becomes professionalised in 1893?

    When does apartheid start becoming an issue? In OTL normal rugby contact with SA was maintained until the early 1980s, before a broad boycott was instilled, unlike cricket which saw other cricket nations boycott SA cricket from 1970.
  7. Post here historical leaders who were of an ethnic minority (or foreign ethnic group) from the country that they ruled over.

    Not really, Afrikaner identity had been a thing for years by then, first recorded use of someone calling themselves an Afrikaner was in the early 18th century. And I don't think people considered themselves Dutch, despite speaking Dutch or a proto-Afrikaans as a lingua franca. And while many...
  8. Post here historical leaders who were of an ethnic minority (or foreign ethnic group) from the country that they ruled over.

    Jean Ping, a prominent Gabonese politician, who ran for President and was chair of the AU Commission, is half Chinese. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Ping
  9. Map Thread XXII

    This is very cool.
  10. AHC: Most Successful Post-Apartheid South Africa Possible

    In the first 1994 Parliament the other 'black' parties were the PAC and IFP. But these kind of labels are fairly meaningless, the IFP had quite a few white and Indian supporters and some of its senior officials (eg. Walter Felgate, Peter Miller) were white. Even today it has MPs like Liezl van...
  11. AHC: Most Successful Post-Apartheid South Africa Possible

    You needed 20%, not 15% for the DP role. Also, not sure it would have made that much difference if we kept that clause, while you were entitled to a DP role if you got more than 20%, it doesn't mean that you would have any real power. See the frustration that De Klerk and the other Nats...
  12. AHC: Most Successful Post-Apartheid South Africa Possible

    For a post-apartheid SA to be more successful (it is not a failure to be fair, the economy is much bigger than it was in 1994, people are richer, and basic services have been rolled out to millions of people, but that progress has stalled since 2010) a POD earlier than the 1990s is probably...
  13. AHC: Most Successful Post-Apartheid South Africa Possible

    Counterintuitively, there were quite a lot of black people from neighbouring countries who came to South Africa, even during apartheid. SA had a much bigger economy and for all the restrictions and awfulness of apartheid a black person would probably still have a higher wage in SA than in most...
  14. AHC: Most Successful Post-Apartheid South Africa Possible

    Winnie was never close to being elected, she didn't have much support. I believe Thabo Mbeki wanted Joel Netshitenzhe, who was the brains behind much of ANC policy, to be his Deputy, but Netshitenzhe is not a guy who liked the limelight so declined. When he became Deputy there was probably an...
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