North Korean Patriot
Banned
Title says all.
Maybe... the Boer War didn't go as expected? Or didn't go as in OTL?
Maybe... the Boer War didn't go as expected? Or didn't go as in OTL?
Without either an influx of British or other White settlers or some other change - say earlier steps away from a white only polity, the Afrikaners are eventually going to win a demographic battle.
I cannot recall exactly how or when this happened, but sometime during the post War settlement / march towards Union, the leaders of some of the Afrikaner parties (I'm thinking Smuts/Botha) were able to secure support from the British to weight the electoral franchise to whole communities away from proportional universal white male suffrage. If this bargain hadn't been secured then (again, iirc) the demographics of the time would have given English speakers greater representation at the Province and then later, the Union level. I cannot seem to easily find results from the provincial elections/ or population figures at the moment, but this may have even allowed the English speakers to dominate the politics/representation of Transvaal well post WW1.
Agreed, it wasn't a conspiracy, but it was part of the political settlement - I am sure it was quite widely known and discussed at the time. My problem is that my source is a rather old Smuts biography which is many thousands of kilometres from me, so I cannot double check what the rest of the argument was
I really miss university some times! At both places I studied they had a reasonably good collection of contemporary and historical works on South Africa, which I've yet to find an easily searchable equivalent online.
Oh well
More immigration from Britain is a bit of a well duh.
How about more integration of blacks in the cities to the extent they not only see themselves as British citizens but fully British like minorities in the UK today. It would require some majorly forward thinking people on the ground though....So probably ASB.
Not necessarily. The Cape had a much more relaxed attitude to the franchise than the Transvaal, OFS, and Natal.
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