Annexing any of those countries is pretty hard though. Namibia was a South African mandate and the international community didn't allow it to be formally incorporated into SA. I think any attempt to annex especially Botswana would be met with international condemnation and perhaps even force.
International condemnation and maybe some force, but do you think that any political bloc would dedicate themself to a large scale conflict?
 
International condemnation and maybe some force, but do you think that any political bloc would dedicate themself to a large scale conflict?

I think Britain would look to protect a former protectorate. There are also Botswana's diamonds, I'm sure there would be pressure (from De Beers among others) to not let those resources fall into the wrong hands.
 
Are not Coloured people one of the major ethnic groups in South Africa? Relativly numerous and dominant in large swathes of the country. THey should be able to carve out a state for themselfes if they are pushed to far.

Quite possible that a western breakaway, with a coloured majority and large minorities of whites and blacks emerges, with Cape Town as its capital.
 
Mitchners the covenant talks about afrikaners Englishmen and colored creating a new Hong Kong at the cape, while the black majority rules the rest. Perhaps if hertzog took power.
 

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I can't see a Juche-like apartheid South Africa, but what I can see is an actively expansionist apartheid South Africa attempting to create puppet states around it, especially if they feel under threat after Rhodesia becomes Zimbabwe. Probably wouldn't last too long before the regime crumbles due to its own internal strife, however.

Juche would be alien to the mindset of Afrikaners or other white South Africans. It's a borderline religious doctrine which demands absolute faith in the "Dear Leader" who is incorruptible and can't be criticised--that contradicts Christian religious doctrine. It also requires the whole nation to be united behind the idea of self-reliance, and if these are anything like the 20th century white South Africans we know, that definition excludes the majority of the population.
Not neccesarily disagreeing with you, but before the DPRK, Pyongyang was known as a major hub of Christianity in East Asia, to the point it was nicknamed the "Jerusalem of the East"

Juche is thought to have borrowed from Christian symbolism and rhetoric to some extent accordingly, and people have drawn parallels between Kim Il-sung and Jong-il and the Father and the Son.
 
I don't think that people in North Korea and it's surrondings in 1920 ever expected the future of North Korea to be what it has been OTL, the same may apply to South Africa.
 
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