You forgot to mention the United Nations.
They were key in the geo political squeeze.
You forgot to mention the United Nations.
They were key in the geo political squeeze.
Short version:
Dutch arrive to find open, empty areas. They proceed to “settle” those areas - to wit turn them from unused to valuable farms, vineyards and mines (later factories and cities). African generation after generation. People from the north and west areas surrounding them arrive centuries later, seeking refuge from the brutal, desolate life in the bush where there was no wheel in use nor even a two-story building. In short order, the vast productivity of the Boer led to an explosion in non-white populations (there are several ethnicities) and this led to attempts to separate makers from takers, however misguidedly people on the outside found their system. Communists leveraged and stoked the resentments of the, now much larger, non-white population and eventually seized power. After which they immediately installed race-based quotas for everything in direct contravention of their stated reason for needing to ursurp power.
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Kindof leaves out the xhosa, but still largely accurate.
The current majority Bantu/Zulu migrations into SA happened well into modern history. And saw a big influx when various cattle/drought waves hit equatorial Africa. (Tetse fly, etc)
There was a reason the true inigenous populations allied themselves with the boers... The Zulu/Bantu were wiping them out.
None of this excuses apharteid, but the history of settlement of SA is far more complicated than most realize.
And is not as simple as white bad, black good (Or even indigenous).
It won't matter, as SA cacausions have been tried in the court of public opinion, with very slanted facts. Everyone thinks they know the facts, bad racists deserve their fate.
So I expect them to follow Rhodesia's path into the prosperous paradise of Zimbabwe.
The wild cards are the diamond & gold mines... When the new dictator tries to nationalize them I expect major shooting.
Israel and South Africa have reportedly cooperated in the past. The South African R4 rifle is derived from the Galil (IIRC) and rumors/scuttlebutt had some joint efforts on nuclear weapons design between the two in the 1980's (although that's largely unsubstantiated).
The two nations shared a similar strategic circumstance, with small minority populations surrounded by potentially hostile majorities.
Last edited by Moose-Knuckle; 05-29-18 at 05:25.
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