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 […]
President Ramaphosa Rejects State Custodianship of Land in South Africa
FW de Klerk Foundation – 7 June 2021 Last Thursday the Foundation warned South Africans about the serious ramifications of the proposals put forward by the ANC and EFF at the beginning of last week for the amendment of section 25 of the Constitution to allow for the expropriation of property without compensation (EWC). The […]
South Africans hold contradictory views about their democracy
Joleen Steyn Kotze, Senior Research Specialist in Democracy, Governance and Service Delivery at the Human Science Research Council and a Research Fellow Centre for African Studies, University of the Free State – 26 April 2021 How do South Africans view democracy? Are they in the camp of those who see democracy through a more authoritarian […]
Reconciliation – and/or – Transformation?
FW de Klerk Foundation – April 2021 Judge Jody Kollapen was one of eight candidates interviewed by the Judicial Service Commission to fill two vacancies on the Constitutional Court. In the course of his interview he is reported to have said that “in the transition to democracy, South Africans had perhaps focused too much 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 […]
HISTORICIDE – People cannot be separated from their history
Dave Steward, Chairman of the FW de Klerk Foundation – 10 December 2020 Our history mirrors the troubled histories of many other countries in North and South America and Australasia that were ‘discovered’ and settled by Europeans between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. The indigenous populations were conquered, some were enslaved and nearly all lost […]
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 […]