Before we can discuss what surviving Boer republics might look like, we should probably consider how they survived.
No discovery of gold or diamonds? I imagine they'd be a poor, agrarian backwater. The racial balance would be more favorable to the Boers, since there wouldn't be massive numbers of British or black African immigrants into the area.
Boer victory in the Second Boer War? I remember discussion somewhere about how the Boers could have focused on immediately seizing Natal (and thus access to the sea), but got bogged down besieging Ladysmith or something like that. Maybe if they did this, they could get foreign aid more readily.
Thing is, the longer the war goes, the more likely the worldwide British Empire is going to crush them.
And if the Boers win--especially if they win in such a way that gets them formerly British territory, which is even more dubious--Britain may try to settle accounts with them during TTL's WWI, especially if the Boers won because of help from Germany.
No discovery of gold or diamonds? I imagine they'd be a poor, agrarian backwater. The racial balance would be more favorable to the Boers, since there wouldn't be massive numbers of British or black African immigrants into the area.
Boer victory in the Second Boer War? I remember discussion somewhere about how the Boers could have focused on immediately seizing Natal (and thus access to the sea), but got bogged down besieging Ladysmith or something like that. Maybe if they did this, they could get foreign aid more readily.
Thing is, the longer the war goes, the more likely the worldwide British Empire is going to crush them.
And if the Boers win--especially if they win in such a way that gets them formerly British territory, which is even more dubious--Britain may try to settle accounts with them during TTL's WWI, especially if the Boers won because of help from Germany.