Subjugated by colonial rule, apartheid, and now the ANC's version of ethnic cleansing
The prospect of success and of the unitary state of the Republic of South Africa is no more viable than the USSR or Yugoslavia was. Its creation was illegitimate from the outset as a result of an unjust invasion by the British Empire. Followed by a statist apartheid regime that, due to international pressure and as a consequence of the collapse of the Soviet Union, handed political power to a forced political dispensation that was not well thought through and has had the consequence to disappoint all that live in the country except the kleptocratic oligarchs that rule.
Artificial colonial construct
The Cape Colony was annexed from the Dutch by the British during the Napoleonic Wars and consolidated into the British dominion. After the unjust invasion by Britain of the independent Boer Republics of the Transvaal and Orange Free State, the Union of South Africa was established under the South Africa Act of 1909, proclaimed in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Thereby amalgamating the Cape of Good Hope, the British Dominion of Natal, with the Republic of the Orange Free State and the Transvaal Republic into one unified dominion under the colonial administration of Britain.
Human rights abuse
The ANC regime implemented a policy framework under the guise of black economic empowerment and enacted more than 140 race laws discriminating against ethnic minorities that make up the majority of the Cape of Good Hope. A two-tier justice system breaches the social compact, of which the most recent example is the Expropriation Without Compensation Act and failure to prosecute hate speech aimed against ethnic minorities.
The United States of America has condemned these egregious human rights abuses, validating the international community's concerns.
Breach of Social Contract
The transition of power negotiated during the CODESA led to a draft constitution where it was promised that minority rights will be protected and upheld. Over the last three decades, the ANC regime has breached not only this agreement to protect minority rights but has overseen the total collapse of all government institutions and cannot guarantee safety and security or basic utilities such as electricity and clean drinking water.
​The South African government lacks both the will and the power to provide just and effective guarantees for the protection of its citizens, with specific emphasis on the minorities that reside in the Cape.
Constitutional framework and civic expression
Minority rights were watered down from the draft constitution agreed prior to the 1994 election to the one that was ratified in 1996 in Parliament by the ANC's simple majority.
Article 9 (5) of South Africa’s Constitution, now states “Discrimination on one or more of the grounds listed in subsection (3) is unfair unless it is established that the discrimination is fair." Minorities are blatantly discriminated against with enthusiasm in the name of redress to achieve the elusive equality (where everyone is poor). Redress of past injustices under apartheid is the justification of perpetual discrimination with no end in sight ad infinitum.
Thresholds and conditions for remedial secession
Kaapenaars may claim external self determination due to historical colonial subjugation by Britain and the denial of basic human rights and egregious victimisation under the ANC regime including the broader definition of ethic cleansing inline with the United Nations definition of ethic cleansing in its note on Resolution 780 (1992).
Consensus as democratic signal
All domestic remedies have been exhausted. The national government as well as the Western Cape government refuse to permit a formal referendum. The people of the Cape have now determined that they will express their democratic will by creating a quorum of registered participants to achieve consensus on key topics, including the form, nature, and right to claim external self-determination.