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There was a Contract between eSA and eBrazil. It is already in past tense. I could joint the “I told you so” chorus, but I was silent. I was too lazy to write an article, even thought I thought the Contract has serious shortcomings.
For the records and for the future I will do this critical analysis now.

An agreement where both parties interest meet has the potential to be upheld for a long time. Thus we need to study what is the interest of eSA and eBrazil, and how could they achieve it.

For eSA it is simple. We want to have our regions back. We also need to admit that we are a small nation, thus we need to make concessions. Allowing some of our regions to be “rented” – a nice euphemism for being under the iron heels of enemies, at least gets some gold to the treasury. I’m not saying that renting could not be on friendly terms, eSlovakia rents some part of it out for ePoland, and they are buddies. We are not exactly buddies with eBrazil as our history shows.
So for our side the Contract was kind of OK. There were some parts I would not have inserted, or not as it was written. For example in the 2.b points I think merely stating that eSA will not support an unsanctioned RW attempt would be enough, we should not spend money on keeping our regions under occupation. Also, 3.b does not have a date set. Potentially the Brazilian president could have withheld his blessing for starting the RWs infinitely without breaking the letter of the agreement. Next time show the agreement to a lawyer, I bet there are some playing. Or to some of your eRomanian friends (we in Eastern Europe are very “creative” when it comes to the interpretation to laws and contracts).

As for the eBrazilian side, they clearly need Western Cape, Kwazulu Natal and Northern Cape for the resource it has. It is also convenient for them to have Eastern Cape, and have training wars in it. It says it all that the eBrazilian could insert a paragraph to the contract that is just convenient for them, but something that is not essential for them (province with deer and war to finish missions). eBrazil is the strongest of the parties signing the treaty.
Without the treaty they would still have all our provinces and the 300 golds as well. There is not even a diplomatic incentive for them to be nice. There was some incentive for them not to attack eSA while they were still part of Phoenix, and eSA was under eHungarian PTO. But even that held only for a while, and in the end they attacked.
Thus eSA either needs backing from the eUS, if it can coerce its ally to behave. Or there should be a threat to eBrazil via eSA and MPPs where at least it needs to handle some regions back not to be reachable via eSA. Like when eHungary handed back eUkrainian region so that eRumania could not attack in that direction.

In summary, you could not base a treaty on the good will of eBrazil alone. There should be a need for them to come to the tables.