Here is a scenario,
Suppose the Afrikaners defeat the British and obtain national sovereignty. What are the possibilities that they would have begun a colonial or continental empire? Would they have stayed within Africa? Would they have moved out into the Indian Ocean? Kind of similar to Draka, but a bit less Boer-wank.
The Draka wheren`t Boers, they where rather anglo-saxon.
Germany having helped the Boers to win their war with weapon supplies (& even some volunteers) in exchange for territorial expansion.
The new territories nominally belonging to the Boers where under German control in all purposes.
To compensate for their lack of manpower, the Boers have natalistic programs to increase their population.
Here`s the idea.
1911, the Marocco incident leads to war between Germany and France, after Belgium is invaded Britain enters war against Germany but not against the Free States.
The French barely manage to repel the German invasion of Paris, the latter of 1911 saw the formation of the French-German front.
While Germans and Austrians concentrated on the western front and Russia, the British-French-Australian-NZ forces along with Serbian volunteers launches a sea-born invasion of Italia in latter 1912, by 1913 most of Italia was liberated and a new front had formed.
The German-AH coalition advanced into Russian, in Summer 1914 the Tsar was deposed, later that year came the December socialist revolution.
The USA entered the war in the early days of 1915, a bit late, Germany launched a sucessfull offensive in the spring of 1915 and this time Paris fell, most of France would follow.
1916, the Ottomans took over the caucase with German help, bolchevik power in former Russian Empire increases. Serbia launched a major offensive throught Austrian-Hungarian lines, USA-British-Free french forces joined them.
1917, liberation of France, Italian and Balkanic fronts are joining upp.
1918, democratic revolution in Germany.
1919, Germany divided by the allies, socialist insurrections throught the former German empire. Allies intervenes in the former russian empire but meet resistance.
First wawe of German immigrants to the Free States.
1920, Warsaw fall to the bolcheviks, Freikorps helpe by british and French troops against revolutionaries in former German and Austro-hungarian Empire.
Second wawe of German and Dutch immigrants towards the Free States.
1921, British offensive toward Free States. Moral of british army is low after a decade of warfare and are eventually defeated.
1922, civil war ends in Germany, Iran has fallen to the bolcheviks. Social movements and manifestations throught France and Britain.
1923, Provisional british governement attempt to maintain power throught a new war against the Ottoman Empire. Bolcheviks sides with French-British against the Ottoman Empire.
Widspread riots and strikes throught France and Britain, worker`s comittes takes power in several British and French cities. Governements calls the military to crush all dissent.
Hitler takes power in Bavaria, Musslini in Italia, Right wing movements takes over most of Germany as allies retreats.
1924-1928: Formation of the Steel pact. France, Britain, Japan, Italia, Belgium, Prussia, Hungarya & right wing colalition in former Germany and Austria-Hungarya.
Trade increase between the free States and Europe, wawe of immigrants fleeing the military dictatorshipes of France and Britain follows.
Bolcheviks takes over Turkey, arabe territories under british-French occupation.
Tensions increases between the Steel Pacte and the USA, especially over China. Theory of Atomic bombe receives attention from US and Steel Pact governements. Relative eceonomical recovery.
1929, Due to the increasing threat of US fleets and and interference in China, the Steel Pact launches the January surprise attacks destroying US Atlantic and Pacific fleets.
Panama, Phillipines, Cuba and Hawai are invaded by Japanes-British forces.
Marines raided New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle. Militias opposes them.
Th Free States started large-scale industrialisation, with a younger popualtion, the birthrate increased even further.
1930: Heavy bombardement of Northern & South-East USA by airforces based in Canada and Cuba, offesive from Canada was stopped but Steel pact kept sending reinforcements.
1931: by the first half of the year, the USA had built enought artillery and aircrafts to defend its coastal cities against Steel pact fleets and bombers
1932: Invasion of Cuba, Greenland and Hawaii.
Free States understand it is only a question of time before the war comes to Africa and the Boer military began planning their campaigne.
1933: The Boer launch a large-scale offensive and seizes Cape Town and open it`s harbour to the US military.
Motorised Boer commandos launches attacks deep inside british territories to buy time for the US Army to deploy.
African armies of Belgium, Britain and France offensives toward Boer cities where beaten back before the full force of teh US army drives them northward. Iceland liberated by US navy.
1934: the Boers are given control of Namibia, Rhodesia. They have also formed the Northern protectorats (Zambia & Tanzania) with help of Steel Pact Army defectors. The USA shows little concern for Africa and only wants to destroy the Steele Pact powers.
The US army battles in North Africa, Australia and the Phillipines.
1935: The US army takes over the colonial middle-east and later takes full advantage of the Italian collapse, still US army is contained in northern Italia.
Hitler have federated the German factions behind him and help British, French and Belgian governements to crush attempts of democratic/socialist revolutions.
1936: After sucessfull naval battles by the US navy, Irland is liberated. British counter-attacks almost succeded and they start building upp defences on the western coast.
Offensive against Japanes territory meets a bloody end, Japan have relocates industry in mandchuko and Korea as its cities are firebombed by the USAF.
1937: The USA starts a campaigne of massive bombings from Italia and Irland, against England & France.
Hitler`s error that year was comitting too much forces to defend southern German cities against mass-raids.
1938: The USA launches several nuclear bombes to open british lines prior to an invasion, which rapidly starts to cut-off Scotland.
A few days later, submarines launches several nuclear missiles against New York, Washington & Boston.
The British islands are conquered, althought it results in hundreds of thousands of US army casualties.
The Bolcheviks invades Mandchuko and Korea.
1939: With terror-bombings from former GB and the threat of invasion, French forces are divided between containing the US army in Italia, Spain and reinforcing air-defences and the Northern coast. The US manages to launch a major naval operation and capture the French southern coast.
1940: France defeated, invasion of Germany grinds to a halt. The bolcheviks launches a major offensive against Europe and against China.
1941: The Bolchevik conquers the balkans but avoid capturing Berlin, Prague and Vienna. The Rhineland and Baviera taken separately prooves even worst than the battle for Britain, leaving the USA army considerably weakened.
The Bolcheviks launch a major offensive, rooting-out the US army and captures several millions soldiers.
Teh Red advances initially takes all of Germany, Belgium and Italia. Northern france falls under their control. They manage to capture German nuclear facilities.
Then the USA army takes over Spain, the Bolcheviks invades Holland.
The Free Republics declares war to the Socialist Union and effectively take over the Dutch colonies.
1942: The bolcheviks takes over the middle-east, India and Indochina. Numerous nuclear bombes hits coastal US cities.
The USA hovewer have been fighting since 1929 and start to counter-attack, helped by major uppveals in the middle-east and germany.
1943: The bolcheviks retreates from India and the middle-east. Oil ressources in the caucase and Romania are heavely hit. USA cannot manage to launch a major attack against the Socialist-Union as H-bombes starts hitting coastal cities, on the other hand, the Socialist union cannot mount an effective resistance as numerous cities are hit. Leningrad is devastated but not destroyed, Moscow barely receives a few hits.
By 1945, both sides finally agrees to stop the war. Continental europe is utterly devastated, Japan the S-U and the USA have suffered considerably.
The Free States where left almost unharmed by the conflict and had prospered, their population kept prospering and growing fast.
1947: major indigenous insurrection in the Indonesian colonies began, resulting in Boer intervention. By 1948, the insurrection was utterly crushed.
1949: Sri Lanka was the first target of the Boer navy and fell easely. Dutch, German and French colonists would reinorce the Boer occupation.
1950s: Africa began sinking into increasing disorder and the Boers established a new protectorat in former Congo.
Worldwide, numerous peace and disarmament treaties are signed.
After the Business collpase, the US economy crashed in 1959-1961. The US army funds where severly cut, conscription abolished, an alliance with the new governements of europe and north africa where signed. Their armuies would be fused and controeld by an international organisation called the Federated Nations.
China lead the asian secession from the Socialist-Union, Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodge, Myanamar followed.
In the Socialits-Alliance itself, a new leader began to establish an empire of corruption and decadence in the name of reforme and peace.
The Boers conquered the Portuges colonies in 1964 and no one but the Portuges themself even complained about that.
In 1966, the Boers protectorats faced revolution and decision was made to annexe them.
Greater Ethiopia was buying USA weaponery and shared common borders with the Boer nation.
The Free states detonated their first atomic bombe.
despite that, in 1970, Greater Ethiopia launched a major offensive but was quickly beaten by the Boer counter-attacks, by 1972 their army and governement had been rooted without teh use of nuclear weapons. That event and not the decades of disorders and warlordisme preceding it, attracted "western" attention.
Most of Africa between the Northern countries(Maghrebia, Lybia & Egypte) and the Boer tates was reduced to warlords and petty despots.
In 1974, the Federated Nations started to move in troops to restaure order and stop the expansion of the Boer nation, the Federate nations did not want to risk a war with the Boer nation hovewer.
1975, fits Free state underground H-bombe test.
The North African nations started exapnding Soutward, to gain acess to ressources.
Egypte agreed to annexe the Sudan and Erythrea while the Boers took over former Ethiopia.
1977, Free States launches their first satellite.
During th 80s, incidents and guerilla actions between Magrebia(Tunisia + Algeria + Morocco + Lybia in OTL) and the Boer Nation escalated into an all-out war, the Boer military strenght had grown much in the last decade and the Maghrebian armies where balayated.
The Federated Nations "intervened" against the Boers, they could hovewer not prevail against the Boers.
In the peace negociations of 1988, the Boers retained all jungle territories.
The other major Boer war started in 1993, when China decided to take over the Indonesian colonies.
The Colonists and the Afrikan reinforcements launched a guerilla war across the Indonesian islands, using small dirigibles snieprs anti-shipe and anti-aircraft missiles.
After 3 years of war, the chines saw they had nothing to gain from their war and gave upp.
6 years later, in 2002, the USA decided to take over Somalia and establish bases there inspite of the treaties they had signed and warnings from the Free States.
The invading forces where whipped-out, the USA retaliated with cruise missiles but shyed away from "liberating" a nuclear power.