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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.
