Had Rhodesia joined South Africa in 1922, I find it hard to believe that the National Party ever would have been able to take over the way it did historically and implement Apartheid.
Had Smuts won the election in 1948, there'd have been a policy of gradual liberalization in terms of race and the country being more open to immigration. It wouldn't have been equality, but it'd have been less terrible than Apartheid and could perhaps have led to full legal equality several decades sooner. I've read in some places that the United Party planned on giving all coloureds (the term for mixed-race persons) the franchise had they won in 1948.
No Bantustans means black urban migration which means increased rates of education and increased earnings for black South Africans
Along with being more liberal and economically open, the country probably would get administration over Botswana (already controlling Namibia and Southern Rhodesia) and perhaps assuming the protectorate over Lesotho and Swaziland. Barotseland too might want to be a protectorate of South Africa (IIRC they wanted to maintain the British Protectorate historically).
A resource-rich nation of around 90-100 million people TTL?
Had Smuts won the election in 1948, there'd have been a policy of gradual liberalization in terms of race and the country being more open to immigration. It wouldn't have been equality, but it'd have been less terrible than Apartheid and could perhaps have led to full legal equality several decades sooner. I've read in some places that the United Party planned on giving all coloureds (the term for mixed-race persons) the franchise had they won in 1948.
No Bantustans means black urban migration which means increased rates of education and increased earnings for black South Africans
Along with being more liberal and economically open, the country probably would get administration over Botswana (already controlling Namibia and Southern Rhodesia) and perhaps assuming the protectorate over Lesotho and Swaziland. Barotseland too might want to be a protectorate of South Africa (IIRC they wanted to maintain the British Protectorate historically).
A resource-rich nation of around 90-100 million people TTL?