Exactly what it says, Rhodesia is teleported to to the southern Pacific south of Hawaii.
Where Rhodesia was in Africa is displaced by a new inland ocean...
Where Rhodesia was in Africa is displaced by a new inland ocean...
People would take it as a sign that something or someone clearly favours Rhodesia and wants its continued existence...or wanted to give it a fighting chance.
Not to mention they will have a drastic change in climate. Subsaharan Africa is way different than the middle of the Pacific. It is going to up end a lot of crops. Things that grow well in Africa don't automatically do so in the middle of the pacific.Those are rather frightful. Also, trade? They were landlocked and now need to develop shipping ex nihilo. I don’t know the standard ISOT conditions for cables that cross borders, but what happens to any line crossing a border?
OTOH, they don't depend on anyone else now(Mozambique's independence was a big blow for Rhodesia because almost everything that went to Rhodesia and what was exported by them went through the port of Lourenço Marques). Sanctions on Rhodesia just became more difficult to enforce.Those are rather frightful. Also, trade? They were landlocked and now need to develop shipping ex nihilo. I don’t know the standard ISOT conditions for cables that cross borders, but what happens to any line crossing a border?
Continuing the river angle - the world loses the Victoria Falls.
Probably more importantly, Mozambique (doubtlessly) is so fucked that it isn't funny. Zambia to some extent as well. Both the Cahora Bassa and Karriba dams - which supplied most of their electricity - stop working.
Mozambique could buy from SA (but pay with what?) or set up coal mines (Tete Province) and use the output for power (among other things).
Zambia expands hydro capacity, expands its one and only thermal power plant on top of its one and only coal mine, or both
Either needs time and money.
Apartheid still lives - in Izrael.The Zimbabwean Sea could probably gradualy turn into a freshwater lake, at 165 m asl, the salt water replaced by inflow of the Zambezi and Limpopo. Neither reaches the Indian Ocean, their joint outlet being the Mega-Save:
Unless the Safies overthrow Mobuto and his gang (Frelimo), no canal.Save River (Africa) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Not sure if SA would have the money, anyway.
Maybe Botswana and north South Africa see more rainfall?
With no Black Rule in Zimbabwe, Apartheid lives for longer?