The outcome of the latest poll places intense pressure on the Democratic Alliance (DA), to call a referendum on Cape Independence. Not only do 65% of their voters support a referendum, 19% of them also indicated that they would consider voting for another party if the DA opposed secession. 46.2% of registered Voters in the […]
One Step Closer to Cape Independence
12 June 2021 The Cape Independence Advocacy Group (CIAG), CapeXit, the Cape Party and the Vryheidsfront Plus (VF+) welcome the Democratic Alliance’s (DA) announcement Friday that it is finalising a Private Members Bill (PMB) to amend the Referendums Act. This amendment would allow the Premier of the Western Cape to call a referendum on […]
“Bring me a permanent solution in the Western Cape”
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 […]
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 […]
Cape independence will improve the lives of all citizens
We can do better!! by Phil Craig, Cape Independence Advocacy Group via Daily Friend The Cape Independence Advocacy Group (CIAG) has just completed the first major independence poll of 2020. It was conducted by Gareth van Onselen’s Victory Research, and, when the results are released in early September, the political landscape of the Western Cape […]
Prophets of Doom are Wrong about Cape Independence
Jan-Jan Not Yet There: Western Cape Secession: If you read the positions of those opposing Western Cape secession, one wonders if it requires a significant drop in IQ to join the club. Consequently, it is only with growing despair that one could have poured through Jan-Jan Joubert’s recent Die Burger article, claiming an independent Western […]