14:38 this icon actually reminds me of a little trend that you probably never heard of, it's called dabbing. Really an underground activity, few people have heard of it
Because everyone knows that if there's one thing South Africa in the 20th century REALLY loves, its leaning INTO its native African history and culture
To be fair, that path is for _Communist_ South Africa, which DID lean into its native tradition. The Communist Party in South Africa was very pro-African and participated heavily against Apartheid. And the fascist South Africa accurately focuses on the Afrikaners and Boers
(1922) The party said in the statement a white South Africa was impossible, and all the workers had to organise and unite regardless of their race to fight for a non-racial South Africa and better conditions for all workers. The party thus reoriented itself at its 1924 Party Congress towards organising black workers and "Africanising" the party. By 1928, 1,600 of the party's 1,750 members were black. In the same year, the Communist International adopted a resolution for the CPSA to adopt the "Native Republic" thesis, which stipulated that South Africa is a country belonging to the natives, that is, the Indigenous Black population. From Wikipedia
The native Africans may have been treated very poorly, but we must not forget that their overlords had to deal with being Br*tish and that's equally as punishing
To naval invade from a country you have military access from, you can draw a naval invasion from your own port to their port and from their port draw another naval invasion to the target and just assign divisions to the second one.
it always bring me joy when you upload new hoi4 gameplay especially when im just going to sleep it made me having a good sleep knowing you suffer every bit of it
14:37 I KNEW I WASNT ALONE!! I always forget about that button so anytime I see it I'm like "wtf is this a man swimming?" and nah its just f*ckin railway gun. every. single . time.
Hey it actually is a really good idea to send volunteers to other countries because if you go into civil war youre guaranteed those units back (unless you tag switch)
I cannot put into words how happy and relieved I am to see this uploaded just as I'm sitting down to eat. I'm trying to train 2 puppies right now, and it's just been a really horrible day with them, and this is probably the first chance I've had to relax in days
Now, Both Orange and Transvaal were boer (Descendants of Dutch settlers in South Africa) states created after the British took control over Cape Colony after the Napoleonic wars, so they decided to move to the east, more deep into Africa. They had conflicts with the British during all the 19th century, until both of them got annexed by Britain after Berlin's conference. Now, why they are on the flag? No f idea, lol. And i'm too lazy to read about it rn.
20:40 You can only naval invade via military access if the ones you’re invading through are also at war against someone (doesn’t matter who, they just have to be at war)
I believe the 3 flags inside the South African flag represent the British settlers, the Dutch settlers and the native Africans. Edit: this is wrong, the replies have the correct answer.
Its actually the union of the British colonies and their native protectorates, and two Boer States that all unified into South Africa. None of the flags represent the native Africans, the "native"/pan-native flag of the time was the ANC black-green-yellow tricolor flag, although this flag was also used by anti-monarchist rebels in the separate British protectorates of Eswatini and Lesotho and some rebel groups of Southern African colonies, generally with pan-African ideals.
The flag has 3 flags to represent the UK and the two Boer republics of Transvaal and Oranje which were annexed following the boer wars but were necessary to incorporate into south africa as it allowed the empire to better control the African majority (no boers arent african. They only starting saying that post the end of apartheid to justify them being there and owning 90% of the farmland)
The reasoning behind the South African flag is, South Africa used to be a colony of the Netherlands. And they use the old Dutch flag as a base for their flag. (The old flag of the Netherlands had orange instead of red) When the British stole South Africa from The Netherlands, The Dutch settlers, who were already there moved out and established their own countries of "Transvaal" and "Orange Free State" But after the boar wars Those 2 countries were annexed into South Africa. Then After the Dutch settlers wouldn't stop resisting. A compromise was reached to give them autonomy. To reflect this the flags of "Transvaal" and "The Orange Free State" where added to the Colonial flag. With the Union jack being on the flag because Britain required all of their colonies to have the Union Jack somewhere on the colonial flag. And the flag of the orange free state got to be in the middle of the colonial flag. But the British wanted their flag to be in the center. So, as a compromise, the flag of the orange free state was turned on its side.
