Throughout his keynote address at BNC # 6 in Hermanus, Phil Craig asserted the practicality and need of Cape IndependenceThe Referendum Party leader highlighted the hazard of African nationalists and the Western Cape’s financial battles under nationwide governance. Craig prompted action, stressing the requirement for a referendum, competing that the DA’s hesitation positions the primary challenge. He promoted for supporting the Referendum Party to push the DA while complying with them. Craig stressed that 2024 ballot would identify the area’s future.
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Summary of Referendum Party leader Phil Craig’s keynote address at BNC # 6 in Hermanus
00:07 Thank you for the benefit of resolving you today. The topic I selected was Cape Independence: fool’s errand or survival method? Cape Independence is now securely developed in South African political discourse. To some, it’s a ridiculous dream, however to others, it’s vital to our survival.
00:36 A study in 2015 discovered 68% of Western Cape citizens would favour a referendum on Cape Independence, with 58% supporting self-reliance itself. Every significant celebration has actually talked about it. As co-founder of the Cape Independence Advocacy Group and leader of the Referendum Party, I’m associated with the project.
01:05 I’ll deal with 4 concerns: Is it possible, needed, preferable, or exists an option? Is Cape Independence possible? Yes, politically and lawfully.
01:34 Political magnitude matters more than legalities. A referendum would be a legal transformation. If Western Cape elect self-reliance, it’s not simply possible, it’s unavoidable.
04:10 Is Cape Independence essential? Yes, as a survival technique versus the supremacy of African nationalists.
04:39 The bulk group supports race-based policies, centralization of power, and dangers to residential or commercial property rights. They’re ending up being more extreme.
06:32 African nationalists control outside the Western Cape. Their radicalism presents a risk.
09:53 Cape Independence is vital for survival if we wish to keep our way of living and a future for our kids on the African continent.
10:24 Is Cape Independence preferable? Yes, it’s about self-determination, managing our fates, and developing a flourishing future.
13:44 An independent Western Cape will enhance financial policies, minimize joblessness, and boost services.
14:52 Listening to challengers exposes the sort of nation we ought to intend to develop.
17:44 No option however Cape Independence for a thriving and practical society.
17:57 Providing Cape Independence needs a referendum, which the Western Cape Premier can call without South Africa’s authorization.
18:56 The most significant challenge to Cape Independence is the DA’s unwillingness to call a referendum.
20:07 Pressure the DA to call a referendum through ballot for the Referendum Party, which assures to work together with the DA while promoting self-reliance.
21:32 Your vote in 2024 will identify your future: a first-world independent Western Cape or a stopped working South African state. Thank you.
*The above records has actually been condensed and paraphrased for brevity and clearness, and might not record the complete context or subtleties of the initial speech provided by Phil Craig at the Biznews conference, BNC # 6.
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Thank you quite and thank you for the advantage of resolving you today. The topic that I selected was Cape Independence. Is it a fool’s errand or is it a survival technique? And enjoy it or dislike it, Cape Independence has actually now securely been developed in the South African political discourse. To some, it’s a ridiculous, unobtainable pipeline dream, however to others, it’s a short article of faith which is important to our extremely survival.
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which was carried out in August in 2015, discovered that 68% of Western Cape citizens would favour a referendum being hung on Cape Independence, with 58% stating that they favoured Cape Independence itself, and every significant political celebration has actually now felt it required to openly discuss the topic. And as co-founder of the Cape Independence Advocacy Group and more just recently leader of the Referendum Party, I’ve been thoroughly associated with the project
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Cape Independence and today I ‘d quickly like to resolve 4 concerns which must provide all of us a much better understanding of what Cape Independence involves. Is it possible? Is it required? Is it preferable? And exists an option? Is Cape Independence actually possible? Well the response obviously is yes. Practically anything is possible.
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And when it pertains to Cape Independence, the procedure is fairly easy, which naturally is really extremely various from stating it will be simple since it will not. Those who declare Cape Independence isn’t possible tend to do so based upon a really formulaic reading of the Constitution, which both absolutely overlooks both political truths and the larger legal universe that includes worldwide law. And I might set out
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for you in fantastic information the legal argument that describes why they’re incorrect and how Cape self-reliance is lawfully possible. In doing so we ‘d all be missing out on the point. This is since the majority of us have actually completely ignored the large political magnitude of what the Western Cape individuals voting lawfully in a referendum for Cape self-reliance would indicate. There hasn’t been a single referendum in the whole democratic age.
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I desire you for a minute to picture waking up in South Africa the day after the Western Cape has actually voted to leave. It’s completion of a difficult battled 6 month referendum project and Cape self-reliance has actually controlled the news cycles each and every single day of those 6 months. And now, under the careful eye of global observers, the IEC has actually revealed the outcomes. The world’s press.
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are reporting that the Western Cape has actually voted to withdraw from South Africa and thousands upon countless individuals are now hugely commemorating in the streets. I desire you to put yourself because minute and to think of how it would feel and after that to inform me that you truthfully believe as some would have us think that South Africa can just neglect the whole occasion and tackle its company as if absolutely nothing has actually taken place at all.
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A referendum on Cape self-reliance is a legal transformation. This is precisely why when thinking about the significance of self-reliance referendums, the Supreme Courts of both Canada and the UK have actually efficiently discovered that in a democracy you merely can not disregard their results since they are the plainly shown democratic will of individuals. Is Cape self-reliance possible?
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Well if the Western Cape individuals choose Cape self-reliance in a referendum, it’s not simply possible. It’s not even simply most likely Cape self-reliance will be unavoidable.
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Is Cape Independence essential? Well Cape Independence fans are frequently implicated of having a lager mindset. If any person implicates me of having a lager mindset, they’re definitely right. I do, therefore ought to you. A lager is an extremely effective technique through which susceptible groups of individuals running in hostile area where they’re significantly surpassed
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protect whatever they hold most dear from damage. This is precisely the circumstance with ideological minorities in South Africa discover themselves in today. Due To The Fact That South Africa is divided into 2 camps. The biggest and politically dominant group is the African Nationalists. The African Nationalists at finest pay lip service to the principle of non-racialism and at worst they decline it outright.
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They support race-based policy, the centralisation of power in the state, their naturally hostile towards organization and intent on weakening or getting rid of residential or commercial property rights. On their program is expropriation without settlement, privatising the Reserve Bank, the damage of the personal health service and an increased function for state-owned business. Severe aspects are actually threatening genocide.
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Their international outlook is eastward and not west. And we should not deceive ourselves into believing that this is some fringe group which the South African people is in some way benign. If we’re to comprehend the scale of the risk that African nationalists really present, we need to not simply take a look at South African election results as an entire, however rather we require to eliminate the Western Cape.
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which is the only province where African nationalists do not hold sway and to analyze what then stays. And in 2019, 73.1% of citizens beyond the Western Cape voted either ANC or EFF, whilst just 16% voted DA and the majority of those votes were cast in locations where ethnic minorities are extremely focused.
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And it’s likewise vital to acknowledge that African nationalists are not ending up being more moderate, they are ending up being more extreme. And in 2021, now ballot, we asked Western Cape citizens this concern. Do you think that South Africa belongs similarly to everybody, despite their race? Or do you think it belongs mainly to Africans and other races should act as visitors? And in 2021,
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45% of black citizens in the Western Cape stated that other races ought to act as visitors. When we asked that exact same concern in 2023 2 years later on, the number had actually increased from 45% to 69%, with just 31% of black citizens in the Western Cape thinking in the principle of non-racialism.
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And the dream circumstance for African nationalists is precisely the one which is most likely to unfold in the 2024 elections. That the ANC can not form a federal government by itself, however rather its hang on political power ends up being reliant upon its more extreme allies. Which need to horrify us. Why? Since nearly everyone in this space comes from the other count.
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and has whatever to lose when a more extreme variation of the African nationalists undoubtedly pertains to power. Our camp thinks in real non-racialism. That South Africa truly does belong similarly to everybody despite their race. That residential or commercial property rights are an important component of a lively economy which financial success is the only practical structure for a flourishing future for all.
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Our company believe that the state ought to have restricted capability, that power ought to be decentralised which free enterprises can deal with the majority of our difficulties and our international outlook is westward and not east. We presently hold one province where in the meantime we form an ideological bulk, however for the length of time will that stay real? And we should not blind ourselves to the truth of our circumstance.
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A poisonous mix of financial desperation, the breakdown of household worths and unlawful land intrusions on a large scale indicates that our ideological hegemony in the Western Cape will at finest last another 10 years. This is a point which Cape Town Mayor Jordan Hill Lewis easily yielded to me when he stated Phil, in 10 years time you may have been best and I may have been incorrect.
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that in 10 years time it’ll all be far too late. It might be an unpleasant fact, however if we as non-racialists and capitalists desire to have a home at Africa’s southern pointer, then we require to produce an ideological homeland for ourselves which we can manage before the chance is lost permanently. And we do not require to envision what the option will be.
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due to the fact that Zimbabwe stands in living statement of what our future will appear like without it. Is Cape Independence essential? Well if you wish to keep living the life that you presently live, and if you desire a future for your kids on the African continent, then it’s time to circle the wagons. Since Cape Independence is rather actually necessary to our survival.
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Is Cape Independence preferable? Well the essence of the defend Cape Independence is the inalienable and undeniable right of all individuals to self-determination. And in 2014 the United Nations explained self-determination like this. In its essence, the right of self-determination suggests that people and individuals, us, ought to be in control of our fates.
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and need to have the ability to live out our identities whether within the borders of existing states or through self-reliance. And considering that 1994 most of Western Cape citizens have actually never ever as soon as been governed at a nationwide level by the celebration they elected, and they have no sensible possibility of it ever taking place in the foreseeable future.
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in the rest of South Africa. And working simply with empirical information, what have the effects been to the Western Cape individuals of not having the ability to make their own choices? Financial development over the last years has actually balanced 1.1% in the Western Cape, whilst population development has actually balanced 1.6% and the Western Cape individuals are getting poorer. 35% of the Western Cape’s earnings
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is utilized to subsidise other provinces which are being mishandled under ANC guideline which cash might have been invested in supplying services to the Western Cape individuals. Joblessness in the Western Cape is presently 25.6% compared to 25.7% a years back and one in 4 individuals in the Western Cape stay unnecessarily out of work.
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The Western Cape had a continuous electrical energy supply for simply 33 days out of 365. And the Western Cape individuals might have had electrical energy. The murder rate in the Western Cape at 56 murders per 100,000 individuals is greater than in any other country in the world. And the Western Cape High Court has actually stated that the senior management of SAPs in the province is corrupt. And the Western Cape individuals
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are residing in worry for their lives. Guest rail services in the Western Cape have actually collapsed, with journeys below 49.2 million a years earlier to simply 3.2 million now, and trains no longer serve most of the Western Cape individuals. And who is accountable for every one of these godawful stats? The National Government.
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which most of the Western Cape individuals have never ever when chose. Is Cape self-reliance preferable? Well let’s think about how various these stats would search in an independent Western Cape. Managing financial policy and producing an organization environment favorable with financial investment and work will nearly quickly increase earnings and lower joblessness.
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and accepting IPPs will increase the electrical power supply. Taking control of the cops service, renewing benefit as the essential choice requirements, getting rid of corrupt officers, professionalizing the service, and increasing convictions, together with minimizing joblessness, will drive criminal activity rates down. And partial or complete privatization of the rail service will bring our part of Africa’s biggest rail network back into efficient usage.
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Simply put, an independent Western Cape will rapidly end up being an African Utopia. Please do not take my word for it. Rather I desire you to listen to those who are most opposed to Cape Independence. What do they state? What do the DA state? How are you going to keep all individuals out? Everyone is going to wish to go there.
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Does not that seem like precisely the sort of nation we should be developing?
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Exist then any options to Cape Independence? If you listen to our political challengers, there are 3. Devolving powers to the Western Cape, federalism or in some way conserving all of South Africa. Well if we might have conserved all of South Africa, I believe we ‘d have done it currently. It is now clear from ballot that in the 2024 elections most of South African citizens will when again
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choose either the ANC, the EFF or Jacob Zuma. And we merely need to accept that most of individuals in South Africa do not believe like we believe and they do not desire the options which we think about important to our success and necessary to our survival. The DA declares that the devolution of powers is a feasible option, however this is pure dream.
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If we can not manage financial policy, if we can pass by who our worldwide allies are, if we can not manage our own borders, however rather we lead all of these things in the hands of an ANC EFF federal government, then how in the world could we potentially conserve the Western Kingdom? And even if devolution were the option, the DA merely can not provide it. And how can I state this with such certainty?
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since the DA have had a straight-out bulk in the Western Cape for 15 years. Regardless of having the cumulative assistance of civil society, academic community and numerous other political celebrations through the Western Cape devolution working group, they have actually amazingly stopped working to provide devolution. Which’s since devolution is not possible without the permission of the nationwide federal government.
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What then about federalism? Well like devolution, federalism will not provide control of the crucial levers of power, leaving them rather in the hands of the ANC and most likely the EFF. In any occasion, federalism is in fact more difficult to accomplish than self-reliance, since federalism needs a modification of the constitution, where self-reliance does not. And the inevitable truth is this.
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If we wish to develop a flourishing and practical non-racial society, which acknowledges the important function which service and financial investment plays in enhancing the well-being of individuals, where order is respectfully however strongly enforced, where the international outlook is westward not east, and where we can picture our descendants living gladly for generations to come, then there is merely no
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other alternative however Cape Independence. And if you’re not preparing to emigrate then you require to assist us conserve the Western Cape now while we still can.
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Now this must leave one last important concern. How do we provide Cape self-reliance? And if I’ve made my case for Cape self-reliance plainly enough today, then I hope the response is currently clear. We need to guarantee that a referendum on Cape self-reliance is held, which we are then nearly particular to win. A lot of individuals in this space will be DA funders, a lot more DA citizens.
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And whilst they’re not best, the DA have actually done a great task of running the Western Cape, definitely incomparably much better than the ANC. What I state next is seriously crucial to comprehend. The greatest challenge to Cape self-reliance is not the ANC and it’s not the EFF. The most significant single challenge to Cape self-reliance is the DA.
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The Western Cape does not require South Africa’s authorization to call a referendum on Cape Independence. Rather, the Constitution empowers the Western Cape Premier and just the Western Cape Premier to call one. The DA can provide Cape Independence, however is picking not to. Which brings us then to business end of this speech.
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Cape self-reliance is a useful and feasible service to the issues which challenge us, and in fact is most likely the only feasible option, however activists like me can not provide it alone. In the last numeration, it’s you who is going to choose whether Cape self-reliance prospers or stops working. Are you ready to utilize the contributions and the votes which a lot of you are providing to the DA?
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require them to call a referendum on Cape Independence? And if the DA aren’t ready then to listen to you, simply as I’ve overlooked the 68% of Western Cape individuals who desire a referendum to be held, then what are you going to do about it?
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I hope that the response for lots of is that you’re going to choose the referendum celebration. We developed the referendum celebration to use citizens a safe method to press the DA led Western Cape Government into calling a referendum on Cape self-reliance whilst not eliminating them from power and running the risk of the return of the ANs. In our manifesto at the referendum celebration we’ve guaranteed that we will vote with the DA
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to enable them to form a Western Cape federal government, and we’ve assured that we will vote with the multi-party charter to do our part in eliminating the ANC from power nationally. Our sole function as a political celebration is to require the DA to call a referendum on Cape self-reliance which will develop an ideological homeland for individuals who believe like we do. And in doing so, to permit us
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to identify our own fate. And our message as a celebration is extremely, extremely easy. You can pick a very first world future in an independent Western Cape, or you can select to reside in a stopped working South African state. And how you enact 2024 will identify which among these 2 really various truths.
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becomes your future. Thank you.
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