By Phil Craig, Cape Independence Advocacy Group – 5 March 2021 Courtesy Mail & Guardian Thought Leader South Africa is currently beset with problems but South Africans are a hardy and resourceful people, and they have risen to many of these challenges with admirable resilience and determination. In Kgetlengrivier, citizens challenged the municipality in the North West […]
CIAG calls for public consultation on W.Cape secession in the wake of SONA 2021
Phil Craig of the Cape Independence Advocacy Group – Saturday 13 February 2021 The ‘State of the Nation Address (SONA)’ has, in recent years, evolved into a surreal pantomime, in which, as the President and the leaders of his government step through the portal between the real world and Parliament, reality becomes suspended. The 2021 performance may […]
Behind the mantras of Cape independence
By Phil Craig of the Cape Independence Advocacy Group – 1 February, 2021 The argument for Cape independence can be distilled to seven words; We are better off on our own. The argument against it usually reduces to two; Yes, but. As the numbers of those coming to publicly accept the validity of the former rise, the […]
Policies we should see in the Cape Republic
by Nicholas Woode-Smith – 19 January 2021 People on the streets, social media, and in the press media are increasingly becoming convinced that a Cape Republic and Cape Independence is not only likely and desirable, but may be inevitable. But what will this Cape Republic look like? Obviously, we can’t really know. Too many things can happen to change […]
The CAPE NATION is Rising
The Cape’s broad civic and political coalition step out of the shadows The iconic winelands town of Stellenbosch, and the less well known suburb of Cloetesville, initially a repository for many of those cleared from the infamous District Six, literally swayed to the beat of its own drums on Saturday, when the Cape independence movement […]
Pig Wrestling and the DA
stop being so bloody reasonable and get a bit of mongrel into you Analysis of a chilling interview with City of Cape Town mayoral committee member JP Smith and the significant implications for our future. by Phil Craig, Cape Independence Advocacy Group – 6 November 2020 I have found myself becoming increasingly exasperated with the Democratic […]
Failure of the ‘transformation agenda’ in SA
The Western Cape DA-led provincial government must be more than just administratively efficient, it must serve the electorate who appointed them. That includes making a stand on matters of great principle. by Phil Craig, Cape Independence Advocacy Group – 22 October 2020 South Africa is in the grip of collective insanity. The evidence of our abject […]
Support for Cape independence greater than expected
by Phil Craig, Cape Independence Advocacy Group – 20 September 2020 Cape independence is not a new concept. The Cape Party was formed in 2007 and has been contesting elections on an independence ticket since 2009. In 2016, veteran author RW Johnson wrote about the possibility of an independent Cape. In 2018, King Khoebaha announced the secession of the Western […]
Results of Poll on Cape Independence
The poll showed that 71% of independence supporters were either coloured or black. 1 September 2020 The Cape Independence Advocacy Group (CIAG) is a single issue political pressure group whose goal is to promote the idea of the Western Cape peacefully and democratically breaking away from the Republic of South Africa and forming an independent […]
The case for remedial secession of the Western Cape
South Africa is the only country in the world where a vast majority is protected (through black economic empowerment and affirmative action) against a small brown and white minority. Dr Fatima Saayman, LLB, LLM, LLD is a legal policy advisor to several national governments. Her specialisation is secession and recognition. She writes here under a […]