South Africa (Attack Machines)

South Africa regained sovereignty in 1964, when the CEFANU party overthrew the former British colonial government. It became one of the few African powerhouses.

## History

662 people were stuck in the Cape Town cell in March 1948. When they found out that they were alone, they received instructions from the de facto governing body of the world, the United Nations, to procreate and increase its population, as they were aware that no other survivors existed. Cape Town had a two-third white and one-third black population, with most of the white people being Afrikaaners.

Without British intervention, they became a city-state with a huge potential to grow outside of its inner circles and emancipate to become what the old South Africa was. Nonetheless some of these efforts tended to fail.

By 1960, the population more than doubled, most of the children born in the late 1940s were now in their double digits. 1960 turned out to be a game-changing year, as two British vessels started scouring Africa and Asia-Oceania respectively. The African vessel found a substantial population in southern Nigeria and in Cape Town, and the survival of Cape Town proved to be enough for the British Empire to help make it a colony again. There was some pressure, as Nicholas Prettemaine joined protests against the colonial rule and set up the Cape Executive Front For a New Union. South Africa "re-emancipated" in 1964 and became a CEFANU-led state for the next 24 years.

Prettemaine who was the only man in charge, left politics in December 1988 and the party was reformed as the Cape Executive Front. The territorial size by 1990 had increased tenfold but the population was still lagging, at about five thousand, mostly under-40s.

CEFANU-style politics were dropped in 1994 in favor of truly democratic ones. High on the priority list was a series of expeditions across southern Africa to find further survivors. Small communities existed in Kimberly and Port Elizabeth and they were annexed by the South African government.

During the dimensional rifts of the late-2010s, some documents related to CEFANU were teleported to other timelines.

## National symbols

The national anthem was the same as pre-1948 South Africa, however upon second independence in 1964, CEFANU ordered that the last verse should be used as official to boost the morale of the survivors. The entire anthem was reinstated during the remainder of CEFANU's control.

Following the change of policies in 1994, a new triband flag was created, swapping the blue stripe for a brown one. These changes were also representative of a country that was less associated with pre-1964 Apartheid and Afrikaaners.

## Territorial administration

South Africa claims the totality of the territory it used to control (OTL South Africa and Namibia), but the population is limited to Cape Town, Kimberly and Port Elizabeth, who together form three provinces carrying their names. A fourth province directly administered by Cape Town, The Outer Lands, is unpopulated and serves as an expansion platform for the existing provinces.

## Media

The SABC was reformed in 1948. During the CEFANU administration it received some aid from the British Broadcasting Corporation and started broadcasting over shortwave.

The newspaper of record, the Cape Echo, was first published in 1960.