cape

In the mid-1850s, Sir George Grey, Governor of the Cape Colony, devised a plan for a South African Federation. He believed that with the various republics and colonies in Africa, there was a threat for an ethnic divide in Southern Africa (which happened IRL), a possibility of foreign...

So, basically, due to whatever factors, assume that, nationally, at least 51% of the politically enfranchised South African public decides to vote "no" for abandoning allegiance to Great Britain as a crown dominion in the 1960 referendum. South Africa does not quit the Commonwealth and does not...

The Palgrave Commission was a Commission set up by the government of the Cape Colony in 1876. The goal of the commission was to see the best way find stability in the regions of Damaraland and Namaqualand (modern day-Namibia). The commission returned to recommend that the Cape Colony annex South...

Suppose that the Cape Colony decided that it didn't want to join the Union of South Africa for various reasons and thus continued to be its own dominion. What would the Cape look like today, and how would its history be different than that of OTL South Africa?

As I can recall, there was some opposition to the Union of South Africa especially in Natal but also some in the Cape Colony. What if both of these colonies refused to or petition the British government not to create the Union of South Africa. I doubt Apartheid would be implemented in the Cape...

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...

Jan Pieterszoon Coen was an officer of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in Indonesia in the early seventeenth century. He was the founder of Batavia, the capital city of the Dutch East Indies. Coen was known in his time on account of strict governance and harsh criticism of people who did...

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...

This should probably be in ASB, but what if the Vikings, who seem to have traveled as far as the Middle East if not further OTL, sailed down the coast of Africa and established settlements in the Cape region?

What would need to change from 1500-1580 for Portugal to set up a permanent Settlement at the Cape.