Blatant treason? No?
Pro Cape independence advocates seek foreign intervention.
The Cape Independence Advocacy Group (CAIG) has written an open letter to the president of the United States of America, Donald. J Trump, requesting US support for a “Western Cape referendum on self-determination as a lasting alternative to Afrikaner refugee status”.
The advocacy for Cape independence is not a new concept to South African ears. Phil Craig, the founder of the CAIG has been driving the movement for just over 6 years now, pushing harder as the years go by. Thursday the 21 May, on behalf of the CAIG, Craig addressed a letter to President Trump requesting a referendum for Cape independence.
In the letter he thanks President Trump for offering Afrikaners refugee status following the white genocide allegations made in August of last year. However, he offers an alternative solution that they believe would be better for Afrikaners and South Africa’s “marginalised” people. He states that Africa is their home and that “to flee is to surrender”.
A part of the statement reads:
“Afrikaners and other minority groups do not need a new home. We love the one we have, we just need to be able to make our own decisions and to decide for ourselves how we want to be governed as opposed to having that dictated to us. This should be understood instinctively by all – in legal terms, we want to be able to exercise our inalienable and unquestionable right to self-determination and to pursue our economic and social development according to the policy we have freely chosen”.
They present the strategic significance of Southern Africa and the Cape Sea route as a bargaining chip for their movement. They further believe that their alignment with Western ideology to be more reason for the President to consider their request. They criticise the current Governments ideology and who they choose to align with. They state that “No outcome would better serve the long-term strategic interests of the United States and its allies than the peaceful emergence of a democratic, Western-aligned partner at the southern tip of Africa”.
This open letter is asking a foreign power to intervene and apply pressure in the internal affairs of South Africa. They present an economic hub that is not theirs to bargain with as offering. Blatant treason. They refer to an established demographic as “so-called coloured people” in quotation marks, like say they are not official people to be recognised. This choice in wording presents a slip in their agenda. They use them as a group to add to their numbers. If they do not recognise them now as an established demographic, what happens to these people once their agenda is satisfied?
This letter comes while the South African majority is outraged at illegal migration, chanting “abahambe”, knowing deep down they want South Africans to abahambe too.
Dear South Africans, the rainbow nation might actually be a romantic notion. Forcing you to co-exist with a demographic that has not yet moved on from the past the way they accuse its majority of not moving on. Forcing you to co-exist with a demographic that wants a South Africa without South Africans or governed by South Africans.
The letter closes off with:
“We stand at a crossroads. We cannot exist outside of Africa. Our languages will be lost, our cultures absorbed, our flame extinguished. We have earned our place in the history books; our fight now is to secure our place in the future. Help us to do that”. The last time the minority fought for a place on this land it was called apartheid.
