You've lost me with your point on drawing in labour from informal settlements. Surely they'd want to avoid that, seeing as generations of doing just that is why they're in such a precarious situation to begin with?
There's not enough loyal "South Africans" of any race to possibly take up all the space that's identified on your map. Unless there is some alliance with other peoples in geographic South Africa.
I'm really not sure what your interpretation of this plan is
The first article advocated for Cape and Zulu independence. This is simply talking about establishing autonomy for specific settlements that can maintain internal trade routes without the need for contiguous territory.
Instead of coming to blows with the state for territorial recognition, the idea is to establish enough small autonomous nodes to be able to ignore state policy where it is detrimental to our interests.
I'm replying to the concept of establishing territorial nodes with such a small population. Independence for the Cape and Zulu land is enough territory for the ~10 million "Loyal South Africans" of any race. It just doesn't seem feasible and more like an impossible extension.
On the much smaller level by way of example, modern Israel has suffered from "extended nodes" that could not be protected, as we've just seen on October 7th 2023. This goes back a hundred years where isolated settlements would get attacked.
It's a great plan if there's expansion and population behind it, but if historic South Africa is in retreat then the Cape Province is the homeland. Anyway it's just my random take on something from the internet.
Well I'm not putting all my eggs in one basket. I write about all possible options as I see them, even if they're outliers.
At the end of the day, it's obviously a difficult situation, and I don't know what else I can do as a writer except try to convince people to take a seriouslook at their options.
Otherwise there's no point in trying to occupy so much land with just 6 million people at most. The original, Western Cape province is plenty of water and green and naturally suited for the population. It's better to concentrate on building this homeland so everyone can retreat eventually when it becomes necessary.
The model is called "Israel". What you're saying makes sense if it was more compact but right now there's not enough people anyway. The way Zionism developed was to intensify population in a very small area which made it defensible.
What you need is white immigration, and that's what South Africa failed. I was reading the memoirs of Ian Smith from Rhodesia, how they adopted a plan of massive immigration from Europe.
Instead he says they found themselves thwarted by the Afrikaners of that day, who were too insular and cloistered to become a modern nation. So it all went to Australia, etc. For South Africa to have any future it needs 10 million new immigrants from Europe and Asia, high class people with skills and the willingness to invest and develop.
Fair comment in a way, but this is a completely different set of circumstances. It would make sense for the Cape, but for Afrikaner communities, there are legal limits on how one may organise which make culture a better instrument than race.
There is a practical limit on how much demographic padding one can afford before it dilutes organising capacity.
You've lost me with your point on drawing in labour from informal settlements. Surely they'd want to avoid that, seeing as generations of doing just that is why they're in such a precarious situation to begin with?
There's not enough loyal "South Africans" of any race to possibly take up all the space that's identified on your map. Unless there is some alliance with other peoples in geographic South Africa.
That's a huge space for even 10 million people.
I'm really not sure what your interpretation of this plan is
The first article advocated for Cape and Zulu independence. This is simply talking about establishing autonomy for specific settlements that can maintain internal trade routes without the need for contiguous territory.
Instead of coming to blows with the state for territorial recognition, the idea is to establish enough small autonomous nodes to be able to ignore state policy where it is detrimental to our interests.
I'm replying to the concept of establishing territorial nodes with such a small population. Independence for the Cape and Zulu land is enough territory for the ~10 million "Loyal South Africans" of any race. It just doesn't seem feasible and more like an impossible extension.
On the much smaller level by way of example, modern Israel has suffered from "extended nodes" that could not be protected, as we've just seen on October 7th 2023. This goes back a hundred years where isolated settlements would get attacked.
It's a great plan if there's expansion and population behind it, but if historic South Africa is in retreat then the Cape Province is the homeland. Anyway it's just my random take on something from the internet.
Well I'm not putting all my eggs in one basket. I write about all possible options as I see them, even if they're outliers.
At the end of the day, it's obviously a difficult situation, and I don't know what else I can do as a writer except try to convince people to take a seriouslook at their options.
Otherwise there's no point in trying to occupy so much land with just 6 million people at most. The original, Western Cape province is plenty of water and green and naturally suited for the population. It's better to concentrate on building this homeland so everyone can retreat eventually when it becomes necessary.
The model is called "Israel". What you're saying makes sense if it was more compact but right now there's not enough people anyway. The way Zionism developed was to intensify population in a very small area which made it defensible.
What you need is white immigration, and that's what South Africa failed. I was reading the memoirs of Ian Smith from Rhodesia, how they adopted a plan of massive immigration from Europe.
Instead he says they found themselves thwarted by the Afrikaners of that day, who were too insular and cloistered to become a modern nation. So it all went to Australia, etc. For South Africa to have any future it needs 10 million new immigrants from Europe and Asia, high class people with skills and the willingness to invest and develop.
Fair comment in a way, but this is a completely different set of circumstances. It would make sense for the Cape, but for Afrikaner communities, there are legal limits on how one may organise which make culture a better instrument than race.
There is a practical limit on how much demographic padding one can afford before it dilutes organising capacity.