South African War: Difference between revisions

Following the fall of Britain in the Second World War, the Union of South Africa found itself in an extremely delicate position, but was able to overcome the hardships of losing the home isles and the monarchy. But the Boers were still dissatisfied with their “oppression” of the governing Anglo minority. The Reich took notice of this, and so, began supplying fascist Boer paramilitaries and supporting Alfred Hertzog’s National Party, as it quickly became the main opposition against the Anglo United Party. Now the year is 1962, and the South African Union is in a tenuous situation to say it lightly. A monarchy without a monarch, caught between the monarchist Anglo minority, the German supported Boers and the increasingly radicalizing African National Congress. As the Boers are increasingly pushing for a transition from union to republic, the Anglo United Party government risks their fragile neutrality, as the moment the National Party will inevitably win the elections, they will break South Africa’s neutrality and align the nation with their Einheitspakt benefactors, thereby reducing South Africa to nothing more than a German puppet. On the other hand the ANC’s most radical members have begun pushing more and more for a Pan-African agenda, as those least radical are calling more and more for the removal of the oppressive apartheid and the inclusion of the African majority into elections. To make matters worse, the three ReichskommisriatsReichskommissariats, Zentralafrika, Ostafrika and Sudwestafrika, are eyeing South Africa with increasingly hungry eyes, as they actively support the aforementioned Boer paramilitary groups, in an effort to destabilize the fragile union. And so, at the beginning of 1962, the player faces a difficult decision: either stay neutral between the ANC and Boers or try to negotiate with the Hertzog Boers or reform the aging apartheid system and begin to include the African majority into politics as so to try and ally with the less radical ANC members against the inevitable Boer and German onslaught.