South African civil war

South African civil war {{{partof}}} The frontlines on the 12th August 2024. Date 12th January 2019-29th August 2024 Location South Africa Status Ended Result South African defeat. Treaty of Pretoria South Africa cedes territories to the new states. South Africa ceases hostilities. South Africa recognises new states. Beginning of the Boer-Zulu wars Belligerents South Africa Lesotho Swasiland Boer-pact Transvaal Orange Free State Cape Natal Zulu Bantustan-pact Bophuthatswana Ciskei KwaNdebele QwaQwa Transkei Commanders and Leaders Mlungisi van der Merwe Lerato Botha Sipho Groenewald Thabo van Rensburg Zandile Fourie Hendrik Mthembu Dineo Botha Gerhardus Marais Hendrik Strydom Willem Rossouw Sibusiso Dlamini Siboniso kaMkhululi Zwide Khumalo Mzilikazi Dlamini Nomusa Zungu Mandla Zikhali Siphelele Shabalala Lindokuhle Ngubane Kgosi Lebogang Mothibi Dumisa Nkomo Jabulani Sithole Elias Makhalemele Lindokuhle Ngubane Units Involved Strength ~4,000 ~9,200 ~600 ~900 Casualties and Losses ~11,500 ~12,000 ~4,600 ~6,700 Other Casualties ~9,000 civilians killed ~10,000 displaced Total Casualties ~9,120 - ~11,000

The South African civil war was a multi-sided domestic conflict in South Africa fought between various factions. The war was primarily between the Government of South Africa and the insurgencies to establish independent states.

Background

Cape independence

Due to the increasing strain of political control from the African National Congress, the sole ruling party of South Africa, it led to increased oppression of the white and coloured populations of South Africa, including one Willem Reibeck, a South African bloxian who was killed by soldiers from the South African Army, this event was a catalyst for widespready protests across majority Afrikaan areas of South Africa, especially in the Cape regions.

Federalism was a long time goal of Afrikaan areas, being more spread out and diverse, a multitude of them had levels of self-governance which was gradually centrialised to one government, leading to a sense of oppression and leading to many robloxians to dislike the centrialised government.

Bantustans

For most of apartheid in South Africa there was semi-independent "Bantustans" also known as a Bantu homeland and it was a territory that South Africa set aside for black inhabitants to keep them segregated from the white Robloxians, the Bantustans maintained sizeable autonomy and whilst recognised as independent by South Africa they did not have any international independence with lobbying in the United States House of Representatives to not recognise any of the Bantustans.

Course of the war

Border skirmishes

The war officially started on the 12th of Janurary 2019, however there were small scale skirmishes and attacks before then. These attacks were largely done by rural farmers against government employees trying to enter certain regions, most noteably the Sabie checkpoint ambush in which 7 South African soldiers were killed by local Boer insurgents.