OAS leaders dreamed of a South Africa-style apartheid Algeria.

Evidence

What, then, was the overall aim of the O.A.S., in embarking upon what, by the summer of 1961, already looked like a lost cause? In simplest terms, it was to make it impossible for de Gaulle’s representatives to govern in Algeria; beyond that, there was little coherent, or unified, thought. Though studiously vague at the time, Salan told the author in 1973: “I thought that we could somehow orient opinion in France towards some kind of solution like South Africa — a kind of Apartheid for Algeria.” He expressed admiration for Ian Smith: “a man of spirit — and, look, Britain still has Rhodesia”! For many of the pieds noirs the ideal of Algérie française was now but a fantasy — though had it ever genuinely been much more? — and thoughts did gravitate towards a fascist kind of South Africa, with the Muslims “kept in their places”. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1481

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader theme the reader is tracking of colonial ideology permutations across Africa — the OAS projecting South African apartheid onto Algeria. — connects to: Pieds noirs most closely resembled whites of South Africa and Rhodesia; Algerian racial structure sat between apartheid and Brazilian miscegenation.; South Africa couples industrial capitalism with race as an articulating principle of social structure. (+1 more)
• SEED: Angle: how settler-colonial movements borrow each other’s models across continents, from Rhodesia to Algeria to South Africa.

Related

• Pieds noirs most closely resembled whites of South Africa and Rhodesia (similarity 0.91)
• Algerian racial structure sat between apartheid and Brazilian miscegenation. (similarity 0.82)
• City-level apartheid emerged in Algeria only at war’s end (similarity 0.82)
• The O.A.S. concealed wildly contradictory, even utopian, political aims. (similarity 0.82)
• Petit blanc poverty drove them into O.A.S. extremism that doomed them (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• City-level apartheid emerged in Algeria only at war’s end #qualifies (0.75) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1578
• Algerian racial structure sat between apartheid and Brazilian miscegenation. #expands (0.70)
• South Africa couples industrial capitalism with race as an articulating principle of social structure. #corroborates (0.55)