A more British South Africa

There is supposed to have been talk at one point (after the loss of the 13 Colonies) of using somewhere in those parts -- maybe what actually became Namibia eventually IOTL, i.e. the area to the north of the Dutch colony -- as a penal settlement. However IOTL Britain then decided to use Australia for that purpose, instead...
 
Well from talking to the Anglo-South Africans I know they weren't oppressed as such, they just went from being indisputably number one to half a millimetre behind the Afrikaners. So while nobody else felt sorry for them they (or at least some of them) did feel sorry for themselves.

Well, basically white English South Africans ran the economy, while the Afrikaners ran the government.

I am actually the product of a "mixed marriage", my father was an Afrikaner, while my mother is Anglo South African.
 
There is supposed to have been talk at one point (after the loss of the 13 Colonies) of using somewhere in those parts -- maybe what actually became Namibia eventually IOTL, i.e. the area to the north of the Dutch colony -- as a penal settlement. However IOTL Britain then decided to use Australia for that purpose, instead...

They tried to do that at some point in the 1800s (not sure when exactly), but the colonists already there told them to fuck off.
 
This only works if we're talking South Africa turning into something that'd make Colonel Chivington blush and Reinhard Heydrich take notes. If we're talking greater assimilation of the Boers......good luck with that, the British tried almost everything IOTL and it didn't work.

The easiest way to make SA more British is to increase the number of immigrants, rather than to try assimilate the Boers/Afrikaners.
 
I think the problem with more immigration to SA in the 19th century, is that without significant further economic development, the migrants are either going to go back home, or move on to another colony or destination.

That being said, like NZ, it would not take much of an increase in immigration to substantially increase the 20th century population.

So perhaps get the Brits to do another "1820" style settlement of another 4-5k somewhere in the Cape. Although looking at Wikipedia, the view seems to be that most of the 1820 settlers moved to towns pretty quickly after the farming did not work out. So you could end up with more of the same, English speaking towns, Afrikaner speaking country.
 
The easiest way to make SA more British is to increase the number of immigrants, rather than to try assimilate the Boers/Afrikaners.

Yep, the Afrikaners are too resilient/stubborn for that. What I did was effectively have the Anglo White/Indian/Colored populations be brought into the fold over time, allowing Britain to rule South Africa while also allowing the Afrikaners to do their own thing.
 
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