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During the 18th century, Gustaaf Willem van Imhoff, the Dutch governor of the Cape Colony, made plans to let come more pastors to the Colony, to secure a good and better bond with The Netherlands. But these plans were never executed. What if in an alternate timeline these plans were executed...

When reading or watching the general history about South Africa, I’ve read about the Great Trek, in which masses of Dutch Settlers from Cape Colony, called Boers, move further inland, and established various republics, like the South African Republic and the Orange Free State. The Question I’d...

Okay, so I've been slogging through some overly brief run-downs on extremely complicated South African history and more specifically the history of the Afrikaners/Boers for reasons that elude even me. Mostly brief skims of Wikipedia articles, if we're being honest. Anyways, the thing I want to...

With no PoDs prior to 1900, is it possible for South Africa (or area comprising it, or equivalent) to have a population where non black Africans - whites, coloreds, and Asians combined - comprise over half the population? If so, than depending on the PoD that works, what would the effects be?

What if the former Boer guerrilla commander turned South African dominion politician Jacobus Herculaas de la Rey had not been accidentally murdered by police gunfire while caught in the midst of a criminal pursuit shootout in September 1914? How would Jacobus react to the coming events of South...

What if, to combat them British and African Tribes, all surviving Boer Republics unite into a single federated state, called the Untied South African Republic?

How would a timeline were the Boers and Zulus allied and kicked the British out of South Africa by the 1840s? Could they have remained independent? How could this happen? How would race relations in South Africa be in this timeline?

With no PoDs prior to October of 1899, how can the Boer Republics have survived annexation by the British Empire for at least another decade?

An idea that has been pounding on my mind for a few days. I heard from here before that the best tactic the Boers could have used for defeating the British in their second war with them would have been infiltration and fast-paced offensives, rather than the drawn-out siege warfare that they...

Sir George Grey was governor of the british Cape Colony from 1854 to 1861. One of his notable opinions was that whites residing in both the Cape and the Boer Republics were vulnerable to "african savagery and attacks". He derised a plan to unify the Cape Colony and the Boer Republics into a...

Title says it all. Assume that the build-up of political threats is delayed until after 1904. Assume that Britain still fights Germany in an alternate WWI, and that the Boer republics join the CP. What are the effects of an expanded south african front in WWI? If the Entente wins, then what are...

What would be the effects of such a victory in south african history?

Precisely? The boer states often suffered issues, such as the burghers (white british settlers who migrated to the states and often enticed unrest due to being denied the franchise), more unrest from the native black african populace, and the two wars that happened against the british, the...

Simply put, if gold and diamonds hadn't been discovered in the 1800s, what impact would that have had on the Orange Free State and Transvaal? Would the British still have fought two wars to exert authority over them if the mineral discovery had been delayed until the 1900s? Would the two...