Why pushing for Cape independence will benefit ALL people in South Africa

South Africa is, in all sense and purposes, dead. South Africa we know in 2025 was put together after the Anglo-Boer War primarily as an Anglo project. The backbone of the country was built around the mines and ports with Anglos (and later Afrikaans) as key decision-makers.

This system carried on through the Apartheid and into the post-1994 era we call Democracy. The elites, through schemes like Black Economic Empowerment (BEE), brought in new elites from other tribes such as the Venda. However, with the decline of Britain and the corruption and incompetence of the African National Congress (ANC), we are now witnessing the death of South Africa.

If you need more evidence that the project is over, just look around. The mines and ports are collapsing and the Anglos are no longer key decision-makers. Place names are changing across South Africa and when names change, that’s a sure sign that something has died and something else is trying to be born. The question now is: What will replace South Africa?

The elite plan

The elites now tell us that the solution is the so-called “triangle” plan that Helen Zille promotes. This plan is to merge the liberal ANC voters into the Democratic Alliance (DA) and form a centrist party that can win the national election and govern.

However this plan will mostly likely fail for one simple reason: most of the people groups in South Africa whether it is the Sotho, Zulu, Khoi, Coloured, Afrikaans, Anglos vote along tribal lines. This is no secret. Historical voting patterns show that people vote with their group.

The DA’s strategy risks dragging us deeper into troubled waters.

What are we to do?

What are we to do? Leave? But where go? Most of us do not have another passport. We must stay. But we cannot just sit on our stoeps drinking coffee. At least, not entirely.

There are two ways forward:

1. Non-political action:
   We should focus on non-political activities such as starting a school, building a product or service, going to church, building a family, growing vegetables, securing access to water and food and so on. These are stabilizing, constructive actions that strengthen communities regardless of politics. Reject the virus of individualism and embrace conservatism. Move beyond politics.
2. Support Lex Libertas:
   Some time ago, Ernst Roets launched Lex Libertas, a think tank and pressure group working toward “a more sustainable political dispensation for South Africa.” He is working on something that will benefit all the people in South Africa, not just the Afrikaans. All the tribes of this region. Currently Ernst is primarily working towards applying external pressure from abroad on the elite class.

What about internal pressure?

South Africa’s elite class is so intertwined that it creates silence. in other words, there is no mechanism for elites to speak out. This is why big business remains silent. We cannot rely on them to do what is right.

Internal pressure

We need another way to create internal pressure, and this is where Cape Independence comes in. I understand that many people are hesitant about Cape Independence for various reasons. Many of these reasons are worth considering. I want to encourage you to see Cape Independence as a pressure mechanism.

A push for Cape Independence creates internal pressure on the elites that rule us with an iron fist and this pressure is the kind that we need for the goals of Lex Libertas. Goals that will benefit all who live in South Africa. So this is why we should all push for Cape Independence. Not because we all support it, but because of the pressure it creates for the goals of Lex Libertas. Do you see this?

Supporting Cape Independence is vital to this equation because it gives momentum to efforts aimed at achieving a more stable, sustainable future. If we fail to create pressure for real and positive reform (NOT revolution), I only see us slipping deeper and deeper down the hole.

I know that some people are put off by the Cape Independence Advocacy Group (CAIG) because of the English accents of people like Phil Craig. Don’t let that distract you. What they’re doing is actually in the interest of your children and grandchildren because of the leverage it builds.