Bloody end to apartheid

Following the path of many African nations at the time .South Africa falls into civil war in the late 80s or early 90s.could south Africa's many wmds be used .
 
What sort of WMDs did apartheid SA have? Would it have been possible for the government to nuke and/or gas black townships without having some of the residuals drift over into the white areas?
 
What sort of WMDs did apartheid SA have? Would it have been possible for the government to nuke and/or gas black townships without having some of the residuals drift over into the white areas?
All kinds chemical,biological and nuclear.some of them yes I believe they could nuke or gas without going to white areas
 

TinyTartar

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What sort of WMDs did apartheid SA have? Would it have been possible for the government to nuke and/or gas black townships without having some of the residuals drift over into the white areas?

The Bantustans would likely be allies of the Apartheid government in such a scenario and would be spared.

I'd think that its likely WMDs are not used anyways seeing as the possibility of the UN actually taking action would rise.
 
Nah.

They'd literally be hitting their own country; the radiation/poison winds would end up hitting them in the face.

They were racist, not stupid.
 
No need to bring in WMDs. Even without them, things would have been plenty ugly. One has only to look at the Mau Mau uprisings in Kenya, Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, or the Congo to see that.

For South Africa, a bloody end was actually one of the more likely outcomes. They were quite lucky things worked out as peacefully as they did.
 
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