South Africa (1983: Doomsday)

The New Union of South Africa is a loose confederation of states in the western part of former South Africa.

Member states

 * DSWAflag.pngn South West Africa
 * Capital: Windhoek (German: Windhuk)


 * Kaap.pnglic of the Cape
 * Capital: Cape Town (Afrikaans: Kaapstad)


 * Za-griqu.giftaat
 * Capital: Springbok


 * [[Image:Za voor.gif|border|20px]]Waterboersland
 * Capital: Griqua Town (Afrikaans: Griekwastad)

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History
While not directly attacked, the climate changes and other damage done to the Earth by Doomsday had a horrible effect on South Africa. Meanwhile the loss foreign trade caused the South African economy to collapses.

By 1984 as chaos grows throughout the country, large numbers of Afrikaners begin fleeing to the region around the Afrikaner-only town of Orania, Northern Cape. These refugees begin organizing into militias to secure control of the area using harsh forms of punishments to maintain order. Meanwhile a convoy of ships is organized for Europe to save as many people as they can from the Netherlands and Germany.

Despite martial law being declared in 1985 rioting runs rampant and the government is forced to abandon several cities to anarchy. As it becomes apparent that the white minority is shunting food and fuel rations to primarily whites, black South Africans explode into open rebellion. When guards abandon the Robben Island prison, members of the ANC rescue (August 17th) Nelson Mandela, but the joy is short-lived as Mandela dies in a bombing raid by the South African Air Force on a Pretorian black neighborhood.

In 1986, the few people evacuated from Britain by the RAF and Navy, gather around Port Elizabeth after the city was secured by remnants of the British military. The refugees found the new Anglo-African state of New Britain after promising elements of the ANC working with them that they would have equal representation in the new state. Prince Andrew is transported by the Royal Navy and is crowned King in Port Elizabeth. Meanwhile the last ship from Europe arrives bearing refugees for Orania.

By 1987 the last remnants of the South African government had ceased to exist and the state had degenerated into various warring factions and warlords. Orania, Griqualand, Deutsch Südwestafrika (DSWA), Mapungubwe, Boputhatswana, the Orange Free State and KwaXhosa all declared independence. Pieter Botha flees to the newly established Republic of Orania where he is welcomed and eventually elevated to President in 1988, however he suffered a stroke a year later and was forced to step down.

The Zulus also declared independence, but almost immediately fell into civil war between the Zulus the Inkatha Freedom Party and the monarchists.

The late 1980s saw the alliance of Orania and the DSWA becoming a major power in the region and both expanding their territory at the expense of other warlords and factions in the area. However the elevation of Frederik Willem de Klerk to President of Orania ended the short-lived alliance as the new president attempted to end the near-genocidal policies he felt his nation was implementing on black Africans inside and outside of Orania. His actions only led to war in 1990 when Helmut Schmidt of DSWA ordered an invasion of disputed territory between the two nations. The war between the two states would continue on and off again throughout the 90s, until an official peace treaty was signed in 2000.

In 1991, chaos in India causes a large number of refugees from there to flee to South Africa, causing further strain on the war torn area. Many head for New Britain but others try other places in the area.

In 2006, a joint ANZC and SAC military force captures Cape Town to depose the horrifying warlord regime the ruled the city. The new RZA Provisional Government is set up but is merely able to secure a small region around Capetown with the support of a small joint SAC/ANZC garrison. Still the mission was the first multilateral peacekeeping mission since Doomsday. Gradually the RZA expands into the de facto lawless warlord-ruled territory.

In support of the SAC/ANZC invasion, New Britain launched an invasion into KwaXhosa and the Orania. KwaXhosa fell quickly but the Orania put up a stiff resistance against New Britain’s invasion.

The ANZC/SAC invasion had an interesting effect on the region. By 2007 both sides in the Zulu civil war had declared a cease fire fearing they would be the next New Britain target once. In 2008 negotiations between Republic of Orania, Griqualand, the DSWA, Mapungubwe and Boputhatswana succeeded in creating the New Union of South Africa that united the nations into one political entity. One of the first acts of its new Prime Minister, Angela Merkel, was to condemn New Britain’s invasion of KwaXhosa and the Orania and demand that they return to their original borders. Fearing that they had united all of former South Africa against them, New Britain pulled its troops back from the Orania but refused to leave KwaXhosa.

In 2009, New Britain proposed the “African Economic Community” in an effort to unite the economies of all the states in the region, but so far only the RZA has become a member. The Orange Free State meanwhile continued to work closely with the Union, but was still wary of joining.

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