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PRESS STATEMENT: Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement fails to prioritise growth

Posted on by Joan Swart
PRESS STATEMENT: Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement fails to prioritise growth

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana’s MTBPS confirms what communities across the Western Cape experience daily: the national government remains focused on balancing spreadsheets rather than rebuilding a failing economy. Despite a primary surplus and cosmetic improvements in debt metrics, the budget offers no credible plan for growth, jobs, infrastructure recovery, or restoring local government capacity. CapeXit argues that capable regions deserve the right to choose a better path.

A Stronger South Africa Demands Stronger Provinces: Fairness Through Decentralization, Not Central Control

Posted on by Joan Swart
A Stronger South Africa Demands Stronger Provinces: Fairness Through Decentralization, Not Central Control

South Africa cannot fix inequality through more central control. A transparent, rules-based system of decentralized governance can empower provinces and municipalities to deliver fair, accountable, and efficient public services. The proposed Equalization and Standards model combines need and effort in a simple formula to ensure every community reaches basic service standards while rewarding good governance. Instead of hoarding power in Pretoria, a stronger GNU must share it — building fairness through decentralization, transparency, and trust.

The DA’s Procurement Bill: Political Theatre but with a Serious Message for the Economy

Posted on by Joan Swart
The DA’s Procurement Bill: Political Theatre but with a Serious Message for the Economy

The DA’s new Public Procurement Amendment Bill is unlikely ever to become law — but that may not be the point. In this analysis, Dr Joan Swart argues that the Bill is political theatre with a serious message: South Africa’s race-based empowerment model is failing, and the economy urgently needs a transparent, outcomes-based approach that restores investor confidence and rewards real development.

15 Reasons for Western Cape Independence — Explained Simply

Posted on by Alex Penhaligon
15 Reasons for Western Cape Independence — Explained Simply

The Western Cape’s success story proves what good governance, accountability, and community spirit can achieve. Yet national failure continues to hold the province back. In this summary of Alex Penhaligon’s “15 Reasons for Western Cape Independence — Explained Simply,” the key case for self-rule is laid out clearly: fiscal fairness, local accountability, energy freedom, and the right to decide our own future.

The Western Cape Can Build a Better Future — If We Educate Forward

Posted on by Alex Penhaligon
The Western Cape Can Build a Better Future — If We Educate Forward

The Western Cape has proven that honest governance and disciplined management deliver real results. But to unlock its full potential, it must gain more control over its finances, policing, and infrastructure—and invest deeply in education. Only by “educating forward” can we build a fairer, more prosperous future for every child and community.

PRESS STATEMENT: CAPEXIT Party Exposes Alleged Illegal Development Destroying Botmaskop Nature Area

Posted on by CAPEXIT Party
PRESS STATEMENT: CAPEXIT Party Exposes Alleged Illegal Development Destroying Botmaskop Nature Area

The Cape Independence Party (CAPEXIT) has lodged a criminal case against Stellenbosch Municipality, exposing alleged illegal construction and environmental destruction in the Botmaskop Nature Area—part of the Cape Winelands Biosphere Reserve. The case accuses municipal officials of authorizing roads, sewer lines, and other infrastructure on protected land without required Environmental Impact Assessments, causing severe damage to threatened ecosystems and endangered species. CAPEXIT demands accountability, restoration, and the resignation of Municipal Manager Geraldine Mettler.

When Neglect Becomes Murder: The ANC’s Deadly Legacy

Posted on by Joan Swart
When Neglect Becomes Murder: The ANC’s Deadly Legacy

When corruption, negligence, and indifference cause thousands of avoidable deaths each year, a government becomes complicit in the suffering of its people. From collapsing hospitals and roads to rising murders and hunger, South Africa’s crisis is one of moral failure. It is time for citizens—especially in the Western Cape—to reclaim their right to self-determination.

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