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Not really, there are so few of them there is no need to make that distinction. I would think there are very few 'pure' Khoi or San in SA, you are far more likely to find them in Botswana or Namibia.

Black South Africans are actually fairly unified politically, quite a large majority still vote ANC. This is changing now (especially in the cities), as the DA starts making inroads and the EFF starts taking votes away from the ANC's left. There's really no reason to get your kickers in a knot...

All black Africans in South Africa are Bantus, unless they are immigrants from West Africa or something. And to be fair, there was violence in South Africa in the late 1980s and early 990s between black people, between the ANC and the IFP. The latter was primarily Zulu, with the former being...

The difference between Africa and Europe was that Europe had an abundance of people while Africa had an abundance of land. When different African groups had conflict they could generally just move 100 kms away from each other, and set up there. In Europe this wasn't possible - people couldn't...

? Somalia, Swaziland, Lesotho, Botswana. Four states with one dominant ethnicity. You could even make an argument for Zimbabwe, where 80% of the population is Shona.

But why would they? In any civil war in SA, there will be at least some sympathy for the whites in the West. If they start dropping nukes on Harare or Maputo any sympathy will evaporate immediately. The only way nukes would be used would be in a hopeless situation, where madmen have taken over...

If Natal secedes why would English speakers lose representation? There are large numbers of English speakers in Transvaal and the Cape (especially in the big cities) and even smaller numbers in the Free State. Unless the Afrikaners implement some sort of language apartheid, which is close to...

We're talking about a hypothetical independent Natal.

Also more likely than Afrikaner secession is Natal secession. It was a possibility in OTL and it is quite possible that the Natalians could manage it. Expect a Rhodesia-on-Sea. It is unlikely that there will be full-on apartheid but English-speaking Natalians were not particularly liberal...

Who would they nuke? And why?

Vortex by Larry Bond is a quite good exploration of a civil war in South Africa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex_(Bond_and_Larkin_novel)

No, not to the extent we saw in the West, I think it's safe to say. The '60s, especially the second half of the '60s, were pretty successful for white South Africa. The country was growing very fast, the ANC and PAC had been neutralised and black opposition was still weak, and the country...

The Transvaal, especially around Johannesburg had (and still has) a large English-speaking population. I don't see any Afrikaner secession being possible. What is more likely is South Africa being split into a white state and a black state (or states), but with the black states being made more...

Well, Sachin Tendulkar served in the upper house of the Indian Parliament, and I believe Sanath Jayasuriya and Arjuna Ranatunga are both active in Sri Lankan politics. In South Africa Clive van Ryneveld and Eddie Barlow were both active (but seeing as they were both on the liberal side of white...

Vorster was 24 when war broke out, so he'd be too young. But the OB seizing power could well lead to civil war.

It'll probably be fairly cosmetic stuff, like shops can't be open on a Sunday sort of thing.

I don't know if Eugene Terre'blanche was a true believer. I thin k a lot of his bible thumping was for show. Any state run by the AWB is likely to be a heavily corrupt police state, I don't actually think it would be a theocracy (or no more than apartheid SA was).

It depends. Are we just talking OTL Western Cape, or the whole old Cape province? South Africa's economic heartland is actually around Johannesburg (Gauteng, the province which Jo'burg is in accounts for a third of total SA economic output). But the Western Cape is second (it accounts for...

I think the influence of the AWB is overstated. Even during apartheid they were pretty much considered a bunch of brandy-soaked rednecks (even by most other Afrikaners). You mighr see Afrikaner militias arise, but they'll probably work more in concert with what is left of the SADF, rather than...

Nah, by the '80s the Highveld is done. More likely to be squabbling over platinum in what is today North-West, Limpopo, and northern Mpumalanga.