@Archangel Michael did that in A Jovian Night's Dream.I would love to see Barrack Obama as an astronomer or astro-physicist. I see him as a Neil DeGrasse Tyson-type. I guess it's really up to you caedus.
Source.
@Archangel Michael did that in A Jovian Night's Dream.I would love to see Barrack Obama as an astronomer or astro-physicist. I see him as a Neil DeGrasse Tyson-type. I guess it's really up to you caedus.
Where Bill Clinton hosts an exciting late-night talk show about Egyptology.
So this alt DA is more like the initial Democratic Party (which was based of the Tories) rather than the DA (which models itself as a Lib Dem sort of party)?
How was the DP based on the Tories? If anything they were more like the Liberal Party, a small avowedly liberal party. Today's DA is probably ideologically close to the Lib Dems. It is liberal but with a strong social democracy element in it's policies.
Nice update.
If you don't mind me asking, are the Expos still in Montreal ITTL?
I would love to see Barrack Obama as an astronomer or astro-physicist. I see him as a Neil DeGrasse Tyson-type. I guess it's really up to you caedus.
1. I wrote like three paragraphs explaining the background.
2. The electoral system, as the post says, is a double-list system. There are provincial lists (amount varies by the population of each province, but the total for all provinces combined is 200) and a national list (200 seats). Seats are determined by party-list PR with 5% thresholds on both sets of lists, meaning that parties like the People's Congress can win zero seats from the national list (since they fall below the 5% threshold nationally) but can get into the National Assembly if they win more than 5% in a province.
3. I assumed it would be obvious from both the box and the write-up, but it's five years.
4. Zuma's career in politics effectively ended when he was convicted on three counts of bribery and corruption during the Mbeki administration and spent five years in jail before being released early for good behavior.
5. Yes, Mbeki was president in between Mandela and Mothlanthe.
I meant the background around the civil war. How did Malan come to power? Where was De Klerk? Did he become President in this TL? Why did the civil war start? How long did it last? How many casualties were there?
Was the first all-race election in 1993 then?
No Zuma possibly butterflies away the Marikana analogue.
No Zuma also possibly means that the likes of Mpofu, Shilowa, and Vavi don't leave the ANC. Or, you could have them leave the ANC (except for Shilowa) when Zuma gets fired in this TL, as many people who have now become his enemy were strong supporters of him (Vavi is a prime example).
That his country was allied to the Soviet Union
Huh. That's interesting. I wonder if that means India is allied to the US.
Yep. Humphrey's vocal support of Bangladesh (and India) in the Second Indo-Pakistani War (OTL Bangladesh Liberation War) brought about a switch in allegiances between India (formerly more friendly to the Soviets, now more friendly to the Americans) and Pakistan (vice versa).
How that would mesh with Indira Gandhi's socialistic economics would be interesting.
I'm assuming Wallace lived longer than in OTL because he didn't get shot in this timeline.