Before the end of Apartheid in 1994, a lot was said to be going on in South Africa leading up to South Africa's first democratic elections. Among these, often violent, events was allegation of external forces which wanted to provoke a civil war among blacks & whites of South Africa. This while South Africa still, likely, had nuclear weapons. The Apartheid government has since dismantled it's nuclear weapons, doing so just before losing power to the "government of national unity". How would this racial civil war play out today? And what would be the result if a war against black & white happened in South Africa?
2021 July Unrest racial altercation.
• Firstly, Boer militias would want to keep strongholds in cities & towns but would most likely be overpowered by numbers & guerrilla tactics of the majority black group of South Africa.
• External (overseas) support for the white cause may arrive in personell & arms (i. e. drones, high-tech rifles & armed vehicles or tanks). So this would add to the whites advantage which may lead them to win some towns but larger cities would be harder to win if not impossible to win.
• Support for the white cause by other minorities within South Africa will be a small boost. Maybe Indians & coloureds of South Africa will be divided on which side to back but many would fight for whites using guerrilla tactics themselves.
• The only advantage black people of South Africa would have is numbers. And if knowledge on making homemade guns & homemade bombs spreads among the black community, it would ensure the war is near impossible to win for the minorities in South Africa.
• All races are likely evenly matched in terms of logistics so movement would be almost at a similar level throughout this war.
The result of this race war may lead to a communised state & expulsion or ethnic cleansing to rid the land of all of South Africa's minority groups.
This is, obviously, something none of us want because many would lose friends & loved ones. This is just my realistic take on what an all-out race war in South Africa could result in.