Why would anyone think that an Independent Western Cape nation... that is nearly all White Afrikaners and would be much more wealthy than the surrounding increasingly impoverished South Africa... would be a safe refuge?
For a short time, the Independent Western Cape would be a refuge. Africa has been long known to have regional wars with complete extermination of the losers. Give South Africa about 5 years of looking at the grass being much greener in that independent territory... and then watch armed militias being formed and the incursions into the new territory begin. It would never end until South Africa owned the independent territory and then drove it into equal poverty with the rest of their nation.
To be exact the Cape, but specifically,Cape Town, is already viewed as a refuge by many migrant populations. That has been the case since the nineties. There are around 146,000 households in 437 informal settlements, that is: pockets in Cape Town.
And you are right, there is precedent to armed militias taking on independent territories, for example, the British Crown vs. the Boers, who had already retreated into the hinterland away from British/Indian settlements near the coast.
The audacity of finding gold on ones barren land, and then buying German rifles with it!
Why would anyone think that an Independent Western Cape nation... that is nearly all White Afrikaners and would be much more wealthy than the surrounding increasingly impoverished South Africa... would be a safe refuge?
For a short time, the Independent Western Cape would be a refuge. Africa has been long known to have regional wars with complete extermination of the losers. Give South Africa about 5 years of looking at the grass being much greener in that independent territory... and then watch armed militias being formed and the incursions into the new territory begin. It would never end until South Africa owned the independent territory and then drove it into equal poverty with the rest of their nation.
To be exact the Cape, but specifically,Cape Town, is already viewed as a refuge by many migrant populations. That has been the case since the nineties. There are around 146,000 households in 437 informal settlements, that is: pockets in Cape Town.
And you are right, there is precedent to armed militias taking on independent territories, for example, the British Crown vs. the Boers, who had already retreated into the hinterland away from British/Indian settlements near the coast.
The audacity of finding gold on ones barren land, and then buying German rifles with it!