Palgrave Commission Approved

[Kendall Hart]

The Palgrave Commission was a Commission set up by the government of the Cape Colony in 1876. The goal of the commission was to see the best way find stability in the regions of Damaraland and Namaqualand (modern day-Namibia). The commission returned to recommend that the Cape Colony annex South West Africa, yet due to a breakdown in relations between the Cape and British, the plan never occurred. However, what might have happened if the breakdown never occurred and the Palgrave Commission succeeded.

More info:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palgrave_Commission

 

[Atterdag]

Britain seizes Namibia but may give it away later, perhaps to appease Germany, since it's not the most valuable colony.

Otherwise Namibia remains part of british Africa, it might join south Africa as it did for a while OTL but much isn't likely to change. Probably huge changes internally for Namibia, but I don't know anything about Namibian history except that the germans did some nasty stuff, which the brits probably also wouldve.

 

[Deleted member 109224]

The Cape already controlled Walvis Bay and the Penguin Islands, so taking Southwest Africa isn't that crazy.

If the cape is so much larger than Natal and the Boer states proportionately, could this prevent the formation of the union of south africa?