ChloeTzang
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Had SA done that, Tswana and Botswana would have invaded and conquered SA within a decade, slaughtering everything and everyone as they did.
At which point SA would have reverted to the empty grasslands, tribal warfare, poverty, and disease like it had been in the past.
Nah, Botswana was admnistered by the Brits. Bechuanaland Protectorate I think it was called. Yup, Wikipedia was my friend. Sort of. The British government originally expected to turn over the administration of the protectorate to Rhodeasia (?) or South Africa, but Tswana opposition left the protectorate under British rule until its independence in 1966. Originally the local Tswana rulers were left in power, and British administration was limited to the police force to protect Bechuanaland's borders against other European colonial ventures (Germany or the Boers I guess). But on 9 May 1891 the British Government gave the administration of the protectorate to the High Commissioner for Southern Africa, who started to appoint officials in Bechuanaland, and the de facto independence of Bechuanaland ended. Which was arpund when the Caprivi Strip was incorprated in South West Africa (Namibia).
There's no way Bechuanaland Protectorate could have invaded anything immediately after WW2 or at any time before or after. The tribal chiefs wanted to become a British protectorate to protect themselves from the Boers and the Germans.
It would have made economic sense for South Africa to tale the protectorate, alimg with South West, for the diamond mines.

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