More European South Africa?

Basically he made the Dutch import settlers instead of slaves and the Netherlands still controls the Cape colony after the Napoleonic wars cus the British couldn't be arsed to keep control of such a rowdy colony.

South Africa is one of my favorite countries play around with, and I considered a scenario like this for a TL. Unfortunately, there aren't many Dutch looking to emigrate around that time, even if the extreme immigration restrictions are lifted. I had South Africa get its independence sooner, but the Boers tended to dislike immigrants as well. I agree keeping it Dutch/Afrikaaner is more interesting, but I hit a roadblock when trying to make them more immigrant-friendly.
 
I've always thought the best way for a more European South Africa was for more white immigration to Africa generally, and then for the whites to get kicked out everywhere else and go to South Africa rather than back to their home countries. But, as someone else says, you need a less parochial government that is open to broader white immigration.
 
I think a Portuguese South Africa is more of a *Cape Coloured wank than a European South Africa. But culturally, it would certainly be more European. Though to what degree could a Portuguese South Africa treated like Brazil be able to marginalise indigenous languages? The Eastern Cape has a much higher native population than elsewhere, as does the north of South Africa. But how much could Europeans destroy the native African languages of the locals? I think Portuguese South Africa is going to be a spectrum where the further west and south you go, the more European it is (including skin colour). There's plenty of opportunities for slave raids, and they'd need much more success against states like Mutapa than OTL. Basically South Africa bandeirantes might be the solution to make as much of South Africa "European" as possible.
I don't know actually. Having a slaved black population coexisting with white colonizers in brazil is one thing. Having native and hostile black populations neighbouring a portuguese settlement is something entirely different. Mixed race individulas were, in the very early colonial period, half indians and half whites.
If the colonization of the cape is early enough, it's likely to change the portuguese colonial policy regarding blacks.
 
I don't know actually. Having a slaved black population coexisting with white colonizers in brazil is one thing. Having native and hostile black populations neighbouring a portuguese settlement is something entirely different. Mixed race individulas were, in the very early colonial period, half indians and half whites.
If the colonization of the cape is early enough, it's likely to change the portuguese colonial policy regarding blacks.
How so? The Portuguese pretty much pioneered the transatlantic slave trade, with their trial run for profitable sugar plantations with imported African labor being Fernando Po island right next to Cameroon, in the early 16th century.

How much of SA is suitable for sugarcane? (looks at a map) Haha, hahahhaha. Natal. IE. Zululand.

Factors for more slaves:
1. Easy availability
2. Established practice
3. Sugar profits
4. Don't die like flies (once they get Bantus)
5. Tribe A hates tribe B (low solidarity)

Factors for fewer slaves
1. Euros can multiply there (even Natal outside malaria zone)
2. Sugar zone is far from Cape, not likely to be taken early.
3. Not established practice by 1520? I think.
4. Easy to run at frontier and/or higher slave densities.
5. Local slaves are close to familiar territory- their friends and relatives are right there (if still alive).

1st. Assertion: After initial problems with Khoisan slaves, South Africa is integrated into the worldwide slave trade; mainly exporting Khoisan (get 'em while supplies last!) and Bantu to the Caribbean and Brazil, and importing from Arabia, India, and Malaysia (war captives).

On the other hand, the Trekboers somehow managed massive numbers of black slaves without it causing them too many problems. I guess it helped that the natives would kill them just as hard if they got the chance.

Thinking of the analogy with conditions that caused the North South divide in the US (glances at Tobacco map of SA), Cape province is agriculturally 'north' of the Mason-Dixon line.

2nd Assertion: Slavery of locals in SA will become of greater prevalence after expanding into tobacco and sugar regions where Bantu are thick on the ground. It'll REALLY become prevalent where the Portuguese advance into the disease zone.

3rd assertion: Fernando Po is still happening. The lure of great profits is still there. Portugal is still going to be the world champion of the slave trade for a loooong time, just like OTL, if they still get Brazil or other suitable territory.
 
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