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South Africa
 * History (from the Keiserreich Wikia)
 * The interior of South Africa remained largely unsettled by whites well into the 19th century. This changed upon the discovery of vast diamond and gold deposits in the area. The influx of British prospectors soon led to increasingly violent confrontations between British colonials and Boer Republicans. The period also saw the final, violent repressions of the last remaining free chiefdoms in South Africa. An attempt at a federal system incorporating both the colonies and the Boer republics was shattered by a Boer victory over the British at Majuba in 1881. The resulting Anglo-Boer War, which raged from 1899-1902, led to an annexation of the Boer republics. The Boers, however, won the peace, creating a constitution that ensured the retention of white-only rule in South Africa. White Afrikaners still, however, held a great deal of resentment towards the British Empire. Following the events of the 1925 British Revolution South Africa was able to annex the former British Bechuanaland Protectorate and South Rhodesia, but had to leave the other african regions of the British Empire in German hands (later included in Mittelafrika). In 1924 the rising discontent with the government led to his defeat by a coalition of the pro-Afrikaner National Party and the socialist South African Labour Party. James Hertzog, the leader of the National Party and once a Boer general, became the new President of South Africa. Hertzog encouraged the development of the Afrikaner culture and was determined to protect the Afrikaner from British influence. This led to increasing tension between South Africa and the British Empire which culminated in South Africa leaving the Entente in February 1925, a decision that has been heavily contested after much of the neighbouring regions fell in German hands after the British Revolution. In the 1933 election the newly created United Party won a non-absolute majority and formed a minority government led once again by Jan Smuts. The United party worked for a reconciliation with the Royal Family and the Entente, but the opposition of the National Party prevented any actual action in that direction.


 * Union of South Africa
 * Government: Semi-presidential republic
 * Head of State: Jan Smuts
 * Head of Government: Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr
 * Politics: 
 * Parliament: The parliament is dominated mostly by United Party which goals to restore the Commonwealth of Nations and go back closer to the British Empire, mostly because the party consists of ex-colonial administrators. The rest of the parliament is mostly the National Party led by James Hertzog. The Labour Party (Communist) take 10% of the seats.
 * Economy: Great Depression doesn't affect South Africa, in fact the economy begins to grow because of the rising gold prices. Gold mines are being funded and expanded by the government.