Zuid-Afrika Mod

[AndrejK]

In portraying accurately the different societies of South Africa, there we need to mod the governmnents.

Firstly, there will be a "Republic" form of government, representing the Boer´s favoured form of government. Man,they established Republics wherever they went. The Boers were predominatly farmers and were not as numerous. Their farms can be portrayed as castles and their government can be just called feudalism under a different name. (Green)

Secondly, we have the Tribal governmnet, which is to portray both the Black and Bantu peoples´ societies. Townships are added here as well (Soweto). Tribal is not going to change in any gross way from the main game.

Thirdly, there shall be "Urban" government, shown in pink- this will depict counties where a cosmopolitan attiude prevails and are major industrial centres...
Fourthly. There ought to be a "Colonial Government", based upon interactions with Off-Map power, Great Britain.

Possibly, a fifth governmnet, called "Democracy" ....to represent the "Rinbow Nation" since CODESA

 

[AndrejK]

As for the question of de jure titles, it appears that it is not going to be as easy as thought.

Ultimately , I have decided for five empires within the borders of South Africa. You see, the duchies are going to be equivalents of the districts, and kingdoms equivalent to modern day provinces. What is of course imminent is that the Empires will have dynamic names.

1. Cape (orange). The Empire of the Cape is going to have following dynamic names: Cape (English), Kaap (Afrikaner, Griqua,or Boer), Koloni (Nguni) Ehui-gaeb (in Khoisan culture) and Kapa (in Sotho-Tswana)
2. Wild Coast (purple) The wild coast is going to have following dynamic names: Kaffraria (English), Wildekus (Afrikaner, Griqua or Boer) LeNguni (Nguni)
3. Transvaal (light green): The Transvaal is going to have following dynamic names: Transvaal (English, Afrikaner, Boer , Griqua, Indian), Azania (Nguni, Sotho-tswana)
4. Highveld (dark green) The Highveld will have following dynamic names : Oranje (Boer, Afrikaner, Griqua), Orange (English, Indian), Sotholand (Sotho-Tswana)
5. Kalahari (blue): The Kalahari empire is likely to extend into Botswana as well; at first it will not be formable. Dynamic names will be Kgalagadi (Sotho-Tswana), Bechuanaland (English), Dorsland (Boer, Afrikaner, Griqua)

Below is the proposed kingdoms map:

The Cape empire consists of the following kingdoms:

• Kaap-green
• Swellendam-reddish purple (English dynamic name Eden, Griqua dynamic name Tuinroete)
  
• Graaf Reinett- blue ( Griqua dynamic name Papenkuils, Nguni name Kakadu)
• Karoo- purple (Khoisan dynamic name Aukarob)

Wild Coast consists of following kingdoms:

• Ciskei (light brown/beige): English and Indian dynamic name Kaffraria
• Transkei (grey-brown)
• Natal (yellow)
• Zululand (red) Dynamic Zulu name: KwaZulu; dynamic Boer name Zoeloeland

Transvaal consist of the following kigndoms:

• Swaziland ( blue, dynamic Swazi name eSwatini)
• Lydenburg (purple, dynamic Nguni name Mpumalanga, dynamic English and Indian name Eastern Transvaal)
• Limpopo (light green, dynamic Venda name Vhembe, dynamic Pedi name Lebowa, dynamic Boer, Afrikmane rname Zoutpansberg)
• Gauteng (dark green, dynamic Nguni and Sotho-Tswana names Gauteng, dynamic Afrikaner, Boer , Griqua name Witwatersrand, dynamic English, Indian name Goldreef)
• Potchefstroom (grey, Sotho-Tswana, Nguni dynamic name Tlokwe)
• Waterberg (green)

Highveld shall be composed of two kingdoms, Lesotho and Oranje (dynamic name Freistata -Sotho, iFreyistata- Xhosa , Foreyistata- Tswana and iFuleyisitata- Zulu, Orange in English and Indian)

Ultimately, Kalahari shall be composed of one kingdom, called Transorangia, with various dynamic names:

• Groot-Stellaland (Boer)
• Transoranje (Afrikaner)
• Griekwaland (Griqua)
• Kgalagadi or Bophuthatswana (Tswana)
• Bechuanaland (English, Indian)

This is it for now. The duchies will come up later

 

[AndrejK]

So I´ve taken a look into the religions in South Africa, and this is the result:
Practically most of the map is Christian, but well.
The dominant religion throughout the Map is Reformed, being the religion of the Boers. I have given all Boer and Afrikaner counties this religion, even if may not have predominated it. Reformed is tied to the Dutch Reformed Church and regarding its Tenets, it should have something along the lines:
Chosen People
Unyielding
Sola Scriptura

A second religion shown in shining pink is Anglicanism, being the primary religion of the English settlers. The Anglican Church is going to have following tenets:
Ecumenism
Liberalism
Global Connections

Thirdly, there shall be a Lutheran faith, depicted in dark blue. The Lutheran faith originated in Germany and has been brought to S. A. by missionaries. Lutheranism will function similarly to Anglicanism, but will not be specifically tied to Britain. It is however going to share the "Ecumenism" and "Liberalism" tenets, and could have a Sola Scriptura tenet sharing with Reformed.

The last protestant faith present in South Africa will be Presbyterian, shown as light blue on the map, being an umbrella term for all other protestant faiths of European tradition.
Its the faith tied with the Scots, and its basically Scottish Reformed. It could have tenets like "Sola Scriptura, IUnyielding and Global Connections"

The Catholic Faith is shown in yellow and is practiced by some of the native counties. Its key tenets could be "Ecumenism, Papacy, Tradition"

All these faiths could be grouped into the Western Christian Religion; there however still quite a few coulours we haven´t mentioned.
One county in Cape Town follows Sunni representing the Cape Malays; then we have Hinduism as turquoise in Natal.

A large part of the Bantu peoples are part of the Zionist African faith, shown in light gray. This is to rperesent the various African-initaited churches.

(What could be added for earlier start dates: Animism (Khoisan Religion), and Unkulunkulun (Zulu religion, which would represent Bantu mythology))

 

[AndrejK]

So here it is, the duchies map. Did some minor alterations to the kingdoms setup.