Not all Afrikaners were opposed to the Fagan Commission - for example, Smuts himself was an Afrikan and he was in favour of the Report. So it is unlikely that every Afrikan was part of a hive mind who were bitterly opposed to Fagan.I'd estimate Smuts might get as many as 3 Afrikaaners voting for him. Fagan represented pretty much everything the Afrikaaners were against.
Good point. I'll duly modify the post.Agreed and probably a public relations disaster in South Africa as well. Could white Rhodesian troops be used instead? If foreign troops are needed, then I think a better use would be for garrison duty in the areas of SA not involved in the fighting. This would free up South African troops for use in the Civil War.
Not all Afrikaners were opposed to the Fagan Commission - for example, Smuts himself was an Afrikan and he was in favour of the Report. So it is unlikely that every Afrikan was part of a hive mind who were bitterly opposed to Fagan.
Not all Afrikaners were opposed to the Fagan Commission - for example, Smuts himself was an Afrikan and he was in favour of the Report. So it is unlikely that every Afrikan was part of a hive mind who were bitterly opposed to Fagan.
How about a compromise? Smuts makes it law in the aftermath of the Civil War, it is massively unpopular in the Transvaal and Orange Free State. The government (re-elected in a contentious election where many 'disloyal' Boers are disenfranchised) spends the next few years fighting a low-level counterinsurgency against hardline holdouts - a South African 'troubles', as it were?
That's viable, although it's not going to be a pretty bloody low-level counter-insurgency, it's going to be for more than a few years (the Troubles were around 30 years, and this is going to be every bit as bad), and its going to be pretty much across the whole of the two Provinces rather than "hardline holdouts". To all intents and purposes, TV and OFS will be de facto under enemy occupation.
To add to things, the author has put British troops as an occupying force in Boer territory. I can assure you that this is not going to end well.
And then there's the domestic political implications of Churchill sending British troops to serve in South Africa to help put down a rebellion.
Well the author has already said he will change the British troop part, so let's see what he does first.
I think that while not the whole of Transylvania
I think that's a rather creative typo.