Open Letter to President Donald J. Trump on Afrikaners, Cape Self-Determination, and the Future of South Africa
The CIAG has written an open letter to President Trump requesting US support for a Western Cape referendum on self-determination as a lasting alternative to Afrikaner refugee status.
Why would anyone think that an Independent Western Cape nation... that is nearly all White Afrikaners and would be much more wealthy than the surrounding increasingly impoverished South Africa... would be a safe refuge?
For a short time, the Independent Western Cape would be a refuge. Africa has been long known to have regional wars with complete extermination of the losers. Give South Africa about 5 years of looking at the grass being much greener in that independent territory... and then watch armed militias being formed and the incursions into the new territory begin. It would never end until South Africa owned the independent territory and then drove it into equal poverty with the rest of their nation.
To be exact the Cape, but specifically,Cape Town, is already viewed as a refuge by many migrant populations. That has been the case since the nineties. There are around 146,000 households in 437 informal settlements, that is: pockets in Cape Town.
And you are right, there is precedent to armed militias taking on independent territories, for example, the British Crown vs. the Boers, who had already retreated into the hinterland away from British/Indian settlements near the coast.
The audacity of finding gold on ones barren land, and then buying German rifles with it!
Maybe thebwhites need to carve out a portion of SA and call it the "New South Africa". Shove all the blacks out of the area, fence it off and begin growing crops, mining minerals, and being far more productive than their dark skinned "brothers".
Which whites? If they want the U.S. to send soldiers, this would become a huge quagmire that will be never ending.
Self determination movement.
It is a cry for help from a failed experiment that is 'a patchwork nation' (as opposed to the rainbow one we keep getting forced down our throats). Cape Town WAS a thriving province, but everyone moved there and now there are massive shanty-towns. The population ballooned while engineers were culled from the council, leaving a knowledge vacuum. Because budget. In 2003 Cape Town imported a very important World Bank Advisor: Reforms landed hard, moved fast, and left deeper cracks than progress. When she departed, the scaffolding fell away, and the city saw what had been built on sand. I would say start there, and map the struggle thereafter.
Regarding the reformation of homelands: There ae 12 offiical languages spoken. But even language does not define a nation - So Canada has two. In New Zealand, there is a Bill in Parliament to make English an official language. That's right, all the laws are written in English, but the language was never recognized. Apparently.
Point is: There is a dynamic to either build nations from tiny enclaves of separate people, or devolve towards such. The argument is between centralization and decentralization.