South Africa has one of the most fascinating histories of all countries:>Portuguese able to saul to Africa because they find it but then some indigenes fight them off>Dutch set up a refuel station that accidentally blossoms into a burgeoning colony which has to fight border waes with indigenous tribes>Mixed race slaves start forming clans, trekking away and set up states in Namibia >Meanwhile brits keep trying and eventually succeed at wrestling the colony from the dutch and start doing crazy reforms like banning dutch, ending slavery and nonracial suffrage>Meanwhile on the other side of SA massive power struggles and population growth amongst the eastern pastoralists leads to massive conquest and resistance resulting in an empty Transvaal, Lesotho as a resistor state and southern African military kingdoms being set up in Zimbabwe, Zambia and even as far north as lake Victoria and a Zulu kingdom that takes on the British empire >Butthurt dutch farmers escape the British clutch, run into conflict with the Zulus, before setting up meme republics that they eventually start trying to make into actual modernized powers that can beat the brits>Gold is discovered and Brits starts flooding into Joburg, sparking a trumped up cassus belli that leads to a guerilla war against BritainWhy is this so criminally underrated?
