AHC: Boer's jump the gun, form state in West Cape with Coloured support

Hunter W.

Banned
I have been wrenching old threads out of the archive and I am enthralled by the idea of a state that includes Whites, Coloureds, and Indians.

Is this possible, I have read, probably without authentic sources, that some Coloureds feared Mandela would be akin to some tin-pot dictator and would be sympathetic to the idea I have stipulated in the title.

I have also read the SADF was well armed, well trained.
 
It would be a Colored-dominated state. In 2011 the Province of Western Cape was 49% Coloured, 33% Black, and 17% White. The Coloured leaders might try to be pro-White at first in order to secure independence, but the long term-prognosis for the White population would not be good: I strongly doubt they would become the first nation in history to solve the race problem. Coloureds are, in terms of income, educational attainment, and criminality, much closer to the Black population than the White, so it would not have been a harmonious situation.

Ultimately, the only real solution for South African Whites to rule themselves(other than simply continuing apartheid) would be Volkstaat in some fraction of the country, either in an area that is very small or very sparsely populated.
 
Depends, is the ANC still communist? Would have been possible if De Klerk did not pull a 180 upon election. Fearful of an ANC purge similar to Angola and Namibia, the coloureds, Blacks and Indians may have more incentive to stand with the whites, have the rest of the nations whites relocate there. Don't expect alot of public spending, this would be a big capitalist center, would need more power infrastructure, green energy, either modernize the disarms power plant or build another on the grid. Expect the Anc to bus people in to change the demographic to maintain control and swing votes. Would need to be done before Mandela walks free.
 
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