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Revision as of 19:48, 24 January 2024
| Start | November 1963 |
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| Location | South Africa |
 South Africa Foreign Support
 OFN Support
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The South African War (or Third Boer War) is an African conflict between the Union of South Africa and the Afrika-Schild starting in November of 1963.
While officially fought between South Africa and the Afrika-Schild, the OFN can send volunteer units and equipment to South Africa, while the Einheitspakt can send support to the Afrika-Schild, provided Germany is done with the German Civil War.
Background
The year is 1962, and the Union of South Africa hangs in a delicate balance. A monarchy without a monarch, caught between the monarchist Anglo minority, the German supported Boers and the increasingly radicalizing ANC.
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 Boer Nasionale Party under Alfred Hertzog will inevitably win the elections and inevitably align the nation with the Einheitspakt. South Africa will become 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.
To make matters worse, the three Reichskommisriats, Zentralafrika, Ostafrika and Sudwestafrika, are eyeing South Africa with increasingly gluttonous eyes, as they actively support 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, try to negotiate with the Boers or dissolve apartheid and try to ally with the less radical ANC members against the inevitable Boer and German onslaught…