South Africa becomes a federation instead of a Union?

Czar Kaizer

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How is it possible to get South Africa to become a federal state like Canada and Australia instead of a Unitary state?
How would this effect the country?
 
Well it ended up semi federal in late Apartheid and post 94 but I take it you mean earlier than that, around 1909-10 Act of Union and all that?
 
How is it possible to get South Africa to become a federal state like Canada and Australia instead of a Unitary state?
How would this effect the country?

Don't think it's that hard.

Some butterflies at the conference for Union in 1909 (I think) may see SA become more federal than unitary. Maybe have Smuts, Botha, or Merriman, or someone else influential really push for federation? Or perhaps have one of the Transvaal or the Cape make federation a pre-condition for joining the Union.

Another possibility is have a massive constitutional and territorial shake-up in the 1960s. There is a conspiracy theory that Verwoerd was planning on partitioning the country and giving black people a far bigger share than just the Bantustans. Some Nat bigwigs got wind of this and didn't like it and got Tsafendas to off Verwoerd before he could propose the new policy. I'm not sure how true that is though, but it could be an interesting POD.
 
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