Is it time that the Cape Province
rethinks its attachment to the Republic of South Africa?
With the ANC failing dismally to control it's own, and cadre deployment being the cause for the entire bankruptcy of more and more government departments, from the very top all the way down to the lowest levels.
And now the call by it's non-government alliance partners to nationalize and scrap the provinces.
Especially now with members of the ANC Alliance now calling for
the total abolishment of South Africa's provinces is it not also the
best opportunity for citezens of the provinces to rethink the union
of the republic and call for self governance.
The ANC and Alliance partners who are methodically running the South African government into bankruptcy with
many local provincial structures and municipalities already under
administration, the plan is now to hide these facts by 'scraping'
instead of fixing.
To hide the constant embarrassment that
the ANC alliance has due to the lack of governing ability especially
when put side by side with the DA' ability to get it right, the plan
is to get rid of any opposition structure in a move to centralise
government doing away with the 'useless' Provinces.
(This so that South Africa can be sold
lock-stock and barrel to the IMF as ANC government starts to accept ludicrous loans due to inability to govern South Africa's finances properly so they can continue to squander South Africa's resources)
It can be done, the ANC sits with a
majority vote in parliament and before any opposition can take it to
the constitutional court they might not officially exist anymore.
It all sounds doable except for one
possible problem, the people of the provinces. As much as the ANC and
it's alliance partners may express this possibility by announcing
such plans to the general population so to can the public begin to
make up it's mind if it is worth being part of the Republic or is it
time for Provinces to think of self governance, total autonomy and
complete secession.
Can it legally be done?
Yes!
As long as there is a majority support
for such an action by the citizens of the territory. Which can be
established via referendum.
So while the ANC starts to table plans
to scrap the 'useless sub-levels' of government (so described by VaVi
leader of Casatu) it might be time for the Provinces to look into the
possibilities of secession from the Republic of South Africa and
thereby force the ANC hand.
It might be a grand opportunity to
finally get rid of the 'Alliance' altogether and normalize the
various provincial territories by having smaller self contained more
autonomous governance instead of the proverbial self confessed 'Ruling Party'
South African's may have a great
opportunity for an anti-bureaucratic revolution by getting rid of
central government.
Examples of recent secessions are the
break up of the USSR and Yugoslavia.
Maybe it is time for the Western
Province to become the 'Independent State of Good Hope'.
The History of secession in South
Africa (From WiKi)
In 1910, following the British Empire's defeat of the Afrikaner in
the Boer Wars,
four self-governing colonies in the south of Africa were merged into
the Union
of South Africa. The four regions were the Cape
Colony, Orange
Free State, Natal
and Transvaal.
Two other regions later became the nations of Lesotho
and Swaziland in
the 1920s. Following the election of the Nationalist
government in 1948, some English-speaking
whites in Natal advocated either secession or a loose federation. In
1993, leading into South Africa's first elections of universal
suffrage and the end of Apartheid, the Natal and Cape regions called
for their secession from South Africa. Pressure from the National
Party government and the ANC (African
National Congress) managed to suppress the two movements.
In 2008, a political movement calling for the return to
independence of the Cape resurged in the shape of the political
organisation, the Cape
Party. The Cape Party contested their first elections on 22 April
2009.
It makes sense to cut away the bonds that tie a life raft from a sinking ship. And it is clear even to the ANC alliance partners that the ANC is a sinking ship.
While Vavi shouts to throw the useless overboard maybe it is time to cut the losses all together and let the whole shebang sink.
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