Cape Devolution Working Group News Today

Paarl Valley has seen the start of many historical movements, from the Great Trek to those championing the Afrikaans language.

The DA says the new Provincial Powers Bill will not separate the Western Cape from the rest of South Africa but from an ANC failed state. It will likely have little concrete effect other than to stir up opposition. 

A recent UK judgment, in conjunction with the Canadian judgment, has established some extraordinarily powerful principles which, considered together with the South African Constitution, can fundamentally change the political landscape of the Western Cape, writes Phil Craig.

Western Cape Independence lobbyist Phil Craig of CIAG explains why he sees the body as another step towards Cape secession.

Calls for devolution in the Western Cape are not part of an elitist, exclusionary first step towards Cape secession, argues John Steenhuisen. He writes that devolution will massively improve the lives of all those who live in the province, especially the poor.

The DA has distanced itself from those seeking independence, yet it has chosen to legitimise those movements by incorporating them in a working group

Malema: The red berets hope to attract into its ranks black unemployed people who are a majority and also poor, landless white residents.  

Ramaphosa's bluff is being called on comments he made that the Constitution does not make provision for the devolution of policing powers.

Phil Craig of the Cape Independence Advocacy Group and Lorenzo Davids, the CEO of the Development Impact Fund speak to Lester Kiewit about the Cape seceding from South Africa. Constitutional law expert Pierre De Vos also weighs in.

The DA's Federal Council chairperson Helen Zille has stuck to her guns in her push for the formation of the Western Cape Devolution Working Group (WCDWG).