Boer relocation

Suppose after the British conquest of the independent Boer states they forcefully relocate the entire population of them out of the country? Most are shipped to Canada and settled in the interior prairie region, but also New Zealand specifically the south island, and Australia, largely South Australia. Like all forced ethic cleanings it'd be horrible but South Africa would develop differently, as well as the influence the displaced Boers would have.
 
Suppose after the British conquest of the independent Boer states they forcefully relocate the entire population of them out of the country? Most are shipped to Canada and settled in the interior prairie region, but also New Zealand specifically the south island, and Australia, largely South Australia. Like all forced ethic cleanings it'd be horrible but South Africa would develop differently, as well as the influence the displaced Boers would have.

I think that is ASBs to be honest. And, it wouldn't be in Britain's interests to get rid of a large number of whites who would be more likely to ally with Britain than with the black inhabitants of the country.

And it would it only be enemy combatants or all ethnic Boers and Afrikaners? Many Cape Afrikaners were loyal to the Crown, for example.
 
If the British want to relocate the Boers of Transvaal and Natal, well consider the present-day Northern Cape provincr, more specifically in the Orange River basin.
 
If the British want to relocate the Boers of Transvaal and Natal, well consider the present-day Northern Cape provincr, more specifically in the Orange River basin.

You would just create an area with a large Afrikaner population. And what would stop them just going back to the Transvaal?

And why Natal Boers? Unless they joined the Boer armies I don't see them being expelled.
 
Considering that Australia, Canada and New Zealand had raised contingents for the Imperial forces in South Africa, I doubt they'd be willing to absorb large numbers of Boers so soon after the war. Nor do I see Boers willing to settle (forced or otherwise) in either of New Zealand's main islands, given the the status of Maori (full voting rights + guaranteed representation in the legislature). Colonisation in New Zealand had it's ugly side but treatment of the indigenous people was better than in other parts of the world by the 1890's.
 
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