RZA (1983: Doomsday)

The RZA is a provisional regime in Cape Town, South Africa, sponsored by the Australia-New Zealand and the. RZA is the actual name of the provisional government; officially the letters stand for nothing. They come from the official abbreviation of the Republic of South Africa before Doomsday. The RZA government makes no claim to be a successor state to the Republic, so it uses only the abbreviation. It comes from Republiek Zuid-Afrika, the old name of the country in Dutch.

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.

The creation of the RZA acted as a catalyst for new state formation in the region. In 2007 both sides in the ongoing Zulu civil war declared a cease-fire, which unfortunately did not last. Most significant was the emergence of the multiethnic New Union of South Africa in the northern part of the former country in 2008. The New Union has proved its effectiveness in the region when it convinced to withdraw from areas it had occupied in 2006.

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 RZA has discussed joining the New Union, but so far this has not been possible.