NOTE:This is a spinoff story arc to the main Black Purge Storyline.It,like the previous stories is vased entirely on alternate futures and anachronistic timelines so non of this is including the many States are factual.
Chapter1:Deep History of the APFP
At the height of WW2,in 1941 the APP(Azanian People's Party)was established in the Republic of South Africa as a political and military organization aimed at overthrowing the dominating white minority ruling the State.It was established by Fernando Tsonga after he had defected from the less radical ANC.Tsonga despised the government and its use of young black men for the World War happening in Europe,plus he could tell from the early ages of the organization that something terrible was on the horizon.Indeed March,1948 just 3 years after the end of WW2 the Apartheid State was established,a Government which intensified the segragation laws that were discriminating against the black people.
Instantly upon its establishment Fernando and his followers resisted against he Apartheid State fiercely, deeming the existence of such a State "A War on black people".The APP lacked weapons like the government had,but made up for that through their innovative style of wging guerilla warfare against the government.White Communities filled with many white civilians were often caught up in the attacks.Things got so bad that by 1955 the organization was banned as a political party and branded terrorist,with the government declaring that "Anyone found to be affiliated with the APP would be executed".So in 1956 the leader of the party fled to Moscow in the Soviet Union.It was here were he operated and would soon grow more attached to Communism.Fernando's great speeches were a rallying cry for the APP members fighting back at home in South Africa.By 1970,when the ANC(banned also)finally declared the armed struggle in the Umkhonto WeSizwe organization,an alliance between the two organizations in the ANC and the leading militaristic organization - the APP,was formed.The alliance intensified the war against the South African government and white people lived in constant fear.In June,1975 just a year after the Soweto Uprising,the current Prime Minister of the Republic of South Africa - Steyn Von Terre'Blanche was assassinated by an APP assassin from the Soviet Union.
The assassination would have dire consequences and the government would react fiercely which infuriate Fernando,with the Cold War at its height,after being killed by CIA assassin just after returning home in 1976 to help continue fight the Apartheid regime,the APP after witnessing their most prominent member - Fernando Tsonga die,declare war on the Apartheid regime and so in September 1976 the South African Civil War would begun.Although with much much greater support including in manpower,after the Chairman of the party was killed the Central Control which was the supreme administrative body of the party's military wing - Federated African Armed Forces(FAAF) was rather deminished and the generals of each FAAF battalions in and out of South Africa were gradually becoming more independent,thus it seemed to the party leadership that their own disunity would ensure they lose the civil war just as it was beginning,and so in a bid to save the war effort the race for power within the party was on.
In the power struggle General Secretary Ashura Dlaminiand Vice Chairman Khaya Vanda were the two most notably dangerous figures who were in fierce competition for the seat of Chairman of the APP.As Vice Chairman it was only natural for Vanda to take power but increasing support for Ashura was negating his rise to power.In October 1976,a vote of no confidence prevailed against Khaya Vanda.Vanda was furious and began plotting to take Ashura out,but there was only one problem,Ashura's young subordinate and right hand Jabulani Mashinini had hilighted to the party Vanda's aggression and if anything terrible was to befall Ashura,he would be the one to blame and subsequently he would lose all power.In 1977 January Ashura Dlamini,a rising power within the APP was poised to take the seat of Chairman but...
In the same month Khaya Vanda had just gotten in touch with the Soviet Premier Nikolai Brezhnev and the first major military base ws established by the APP in Botswana with Soviet Forces training the APP soldiers to be sent to RSA to fight the regime.Khaya was hailed as a hero and had the support of the FAAF and many political members of the APP on his side,whuch led to a stalemate between the two.Ashura then plotted to kill Khaya himself,a plot that his right hand now turned traitor Jabulani Mashinini would expose to the party.This instantly gave Vanda the chance to begin purging the party in May 1977 to get rid of all "Unwanted Elements".Khaya was surely gonna take the seat of leadership but still faced a lot of competition within the party itself which conveniently during his great APP purge which lasted 30 days straight all either got killed or disappeared,a purge which the young,ambitious and opportunistic Jabulani Mashinini survived.Khaya Vanda would then be named Chairman of the APP in June 1977 and thus Chairman Khaya Vanda would go on to consolidate his power by converting FAAF into the Black Army and forming the Executive Secretariat Council(ESC) of the APP of six people led by the General Secretary and the Chairman himself in order to make the party more democratic and less autocratic so if such a crisis as him(i.e the Chairman) dying were to occur,no struggle for power or internal fighting which could potentially destroy the party would occur.
To be Continued...