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Freedom Front Plus (FF Plus) premier candidate Peter Marais says he wants the Western Cape to be run independently from the rest of South Africa.

Marais is advocating for self-determination in the Western Cape ahead of the general elections in May.

With less than a month to go, Marais said there were enough resources for the province to stand on its own two feet.

The Western Cape Constitution allows for the premier to call for a referendum, but no premier has ever decided to go that route, but that could change if Marais moves into the official residence.

He said one of his first tasks will be to call a referendum asking residents whether they want an independently run province.

“You will still have the same economic arrangement from the central government, they must just give us our share of the fiscus.”

Marais has, however, admitted that such a decision could lead to residents paying more taxes.

“We might ask
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Carel Boshoff IV is eloquent, intelligent and a stimulating conversationalist. As “president” of the Orania Movement it is his task to promote and protect the interests of Orania, the Afrikaner settlement near Hopetown in the Northen Cape established before the advent of democracy.

Last week Boshoff, a grandchild of apartheid premier Hendrik Verwoerd and a former member of the Northern Cape’s legislature for the Freedom Front Plus, issued a statement addressed to “Afrikaner decisionmakers” in which he argues that the time to pursue the ideal of an own Afrikaner territory – a volkstaat, in 1990s parlance – has come.

Boshoff argues that race relations are deteriorating, as illustrated by the debate on land expropriation and the recent “witch hunt” targeting the Schweizer-Reneke teacher, and says it seems that the ideal of a non-racial society remains a mirage. He also questions the construct of South Africa and believes the country consists of divergent languag
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Posts tagged with 'self-determination'

Peter Marais is advocating for self-determination in the Western Cape ahead of the general elections in May

The return of the right and the coming of the volkstaat