south africa

Given the ethnic, linguistic and cultural divisions of the population of South Africa, given the political criticism of Apartheid, what do you think of a constitutional arrangement of the country roughly parallel to a "National Pact". The Union of South Africa being a country of European...

To lay down the scenario, Britain has been reduced to having it's Royal Navy destroyed for the most part, and is now a vassal state of Germany. Germany was able to win this conflict by allying with Russia, annexing Austria-Bohemia, etc, and focus its efforts on Western Europe. After one war in...

Here's a timeline I'm surprised historians on this site haven't brought up how would World War 2 have gone down if America's attempt to keep South America neutral or join the Allies backfired and Brazil joined the Axis Powers

Lets say we go with a POD of 1815 can we get South Africa to control all of Southern Africa by 1945? https://i.imgur.com/4yASv5R.gif Basically OTL Union of South Africa plus Zimbabwe/Rhodesia Botswana Lesotho and Swaziland Mozambique south of the Zambezi Bonuses if: Namibia has more Germans...

I know that your kneejerk reaction here will be to call it implausible, but hear me out; let's say that Cecil catches Malaria or something during his excursions into 'the dark continent' and, while he survives it, he goes more than a little bit kooky because of it. The obvious answer is that...

Halo In regards to South Africa, there had been many threads which discussed about different discoverers/settlers in SA such as the British, Portuguese, French, Vikings, etc.etc. even Chinese(!). But why not the Germans? Your challenge is to make the Germans the ones who discovered the Cape...

One interesting idea I see is Jan skits winning in 1948. At this time, his views of blacks had begun to liberalize more. I would think South Africa would become more like Rhodesia, as in less protective of Afrikaner culture, and more focused on “western civilization” as a whole. It will also be...

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?

Basically what it says in the title - WI the South Africans had a full nuclear programme that worked? Would apartheid survive until the modern day (perish the thought!)? Would this lead to the Rhodesian gov't winning the Bush War (ditto)? How would the Communist states in Africa react to the...

STARS, STRIPES AND A PINE Stars, Stripes and A Pine, Post #1: The War of 1812 was meant to be a quick war, an easy war, a “Second War of Independence” that would be as great as the first…or at least, would’ve been. No-one expected a British victory in Baltimore. No-one anticipated the death of...

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...

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?

I wanted to imagine how these countries might have survived into the present day. My POD's would be Slightly earlier settlement of Angola and Mozambique, so that they have a slightly larger white population. I saw another thread imagining something like this called Angola Avante . Portugal...

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?

With a pod in 1990 have a larger portion of South Africa's population become urban than in OTL. Could South Africa develop a metropolitan area with a population of of above 20 million? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannesburg Currently the Johannesburg metropolitan area is the most populous...

Chapter One: The Land of Hope And Glory As always, the views expressed by characters seen here are not mine. "There's room for expansion," Otto said over breakfast, reading the newspaper that the organic people sent out to the farms. He tapped an article with his thick finger, and she noticed...

In July of 1991, shortly after the ANC National Conference, Nelson Mandela is murdered by a Pro-Apartheid White man. What happens? Things are definitely gonna get chaotic, and probably bloody. Could South AFrfra see a full-on race war? Your thoughts?

Season of Violence: The Fall of Apartheid in South Africa (old draft) First, some background music... This is a timeline based on an idea I have had for a long time - a violent end to the apartheid era in an alternate 1990s. Even after Mandela was released from prison in 1990 in OTL, South...

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...