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Cape Party Manifesto
By: Hawk Date: March 16, 2018, 3:33 pm
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Our Contract with the Cape – Policies
 Direct Democracy
 Crime
 Housing
 Education
 BEE, EEA and AA (institutionalised racism)
 Employment
 Health and Medical Care
 Illegal Immigration and Strong Borders
 Corruption
 Media Freedom
 Internet Freedom
 Traffic Congestion and Efficient Roads
 Energy and Water
 Trade/Ports (air, rail, sea)
 Culture
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Re: Cape Party Manifesto
By: Hawk Date: March 16, 2018, 3:41 pm
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[quote]Direct Democracy – Referendum, Initiative, Nullification
and Recall.[/quote]
Direct Democracy is a system whereby the government is given its
decisionmaking abilities directly from the citizens they serve.
Government is transparent and accountable. In essence, political
power is localised in the hands of individuals who control the
policies that govern their country, their province and their
local community. Not once every five years, but every moment of
every day.
Direct Democracy has a number of checks and balances that ensure
the system maintains its integrity. The most common and notable
of these are referendums, initiatives, nullification and recall.
Referendum: This is when a law/policy is accepted or rejected by
a vote of the people. This is the very foundation of direct
democracy.
Initiative: This is when the people come together to introduce a
new law/policy. After a certain amount of signatures has been
received in petition the proposal or initiative is then put to a
referendum.
Nullification: This is when the people are not in favour of an
existing law and so they petition to have the law/policy
removed. This is similar to an initiative but in reverse,
instead of introducing a new good law the people vote to remove
an old bad law. This keeps the political system flexible and
responsive to the current will of the people.
Recall: This is when the people vote to remove a politician. If
evidence emerges that a politician is no longer serving the
interest of the people then a petition can be called to have the
politician immediately removed. In the case of proven corruption
or illegal activity then they will be removed from political
office and will face the judicial system. Shorter pathways
between citizen and state ensure that each tax-payer cent is
spent as it should, government is transparent, and politicians
are accountable. To improve on an already proven system: with
the internet and today’s technology there is no reason why we
could not incorporate the above capabilities into a simple
mobile/desktop application.
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Re: Cape Party Manifesto
By: Hawk Date: March 16, 2018, 3:44 pm
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[quote]Crime[/quote]
The basic function of a government is to secure the safety of
its citizens. It is clear that the South African government, the
police system and the criminal justice system has failed the
people they serve.
The Cape Party believes that serious offenders should face the
harshest of penalties. Referenda should be held to bring the
punitive criminal system in line with the will of the people.
The prison system acts as a mere welfare house and breeding
ground for gangsterism, with murderers and rapists released
after serving a fraction of the sentences for which their crimes
should be punished.
Minor offenders are incarcerated amongst the worst criminals
with no consideration given to the damage they may suffer.
Our plan:
 Cut expenses on wasteful bureaucracy and focus
resources on the forensic department and the training of
professional investigative units.
 Promote the development and growth of grass-roots
community based policing.
 Prioritise the police’s focus on serious offences and
real crimes, not petty misdemeanours that harass the citizenry.
 It is our belief that the death penalty should be
imposed on the most ruthless criminals guilty of the worst
crimes. However, we will hold referenda to ensure that the
punitive system reflects the will of the people.
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Re: Cape Party Manifesto
By: Hawk Date: March 16, 2018, 3:47 pm
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[quote]Housing[/quote]
National and Provincial housing policy has racially
discriminated against the indigenous people of the Cape for too
long.
We believe that housing should be given to citizens on a “first
come, first served” basis and according to need. Racial politics
should not form any part of the housing process. Under a Cape
Party government, title deeds will be given to those tenants who
have lived in state housing for more than 20 years. Privately
owned properties are well looked after as owners take personal
care to preserve their property. That should be the ideal, and
we will strive to ensure that economic conditions are present so
that more people can enter the workforce, access credit and own
and develop their own property.
Many of our poorer neighbourhoods are in fact broken societies
in which a cycle of unemployment, drugs, lack of education and
abuse exists. To break that cycle, proper housing and clean
neighbourhoods is fundamental in the plan to deal with the
pressing issues that confront our broken societies in the Cape.
Our plan:
 Title Deeds for existing council tenants of more than
20 years
 No racial quotas in housing
 Houses will be allocated on a first-come-first-served
basis
 Promote private ownership of housing
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Re: Cape Party Manifesto
By: Hawk Date: March 16, 2018, 3:51 pm
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[quote]Education[/quote]
Education is the bedrock of society and is finely woven into the
fabric of family and community. Our children need to grow up in
dignified housing with strong families who can build upon a
platform to further their children’s potential. Government
cannot do this alone. Parents are the pillar of an education
partnership, and community based efforts will be fundamental to
the building of a strong education system.
We need to prioritize skills that have economic value and
nurture a work ethic that will make our economy an attractive
option for local and foreign investment. Ensuring that students
acquire appropriate and reliable skill sets results in job
security, an income that affords the opportunity to purchase
property, the means to provide for family and in turn a
progressive upward path out of poverty.
Our Plan:
 Less bureaucratic paperwork for teachers and more time
spent teaching.
 Decreased class sizes.
 Promotion of private schools in low-income areas in
line with current trends.
 Prioritizing of skills towards meaningful education of
economic value.
 Reintroduction of the apprentice system
 Sponsored education for students in low-income areas.
 Raise the accepted standard of education. Anything less
than basic proficiency in reading and writing is not an
education at all.
 Tuition programs to emphasise Pure Maths, Science and
IT.
 Economic incentives for skilled labour to remain in the
country and promote the education of future generations.
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Re: Cape Party Manifesto
By: Hawk Date: March 16, 2018, 3:53 pm
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[quote]BEE, EEA and AA (institutionalised racism)[/quote]
The Cape Party believes in equal opportunity for all citizens,
and would bring about an end to all racial legislation, quotas,
and policies that the South African government is enforcing on
the Cape. Racial profiling and discrimination has no place in
the 21st Century.
Over one million (1 000 000) people of the Cape are facing job
losses as a result of the ANC’s Employment Equity Act which
directly discriminates against the coloured, white and Indian
racial groups in South Africa. The Cape Party vehemently opposes
this blatantly racist policy. On the immediate term we will
simply refuse to implement it in the Cape, and it will have no
place in an
independent Cape Republic.
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Re: Cape Party Manifesto
By: Hawk Date: March 16, 2018, 3:54 pm
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[quote]Employment[/quote]
People create employment, not government. Laws which prevent
people from becoming entrepreneurs or employers and drive the
most skilled of the countries workforce abroad result in the
shrinking economy and the widespread loss of jobs we are
currently facing. Government’s duty is to nurture job-creation
not deter it through policies that discriminate, bureaucratic
red-tape that stifles productivity, and taxes that prevent
reinvestment. Studies have showed that one skilled labourer on
average provides employment for 10 unskilled labourers*.
With over one million skilled labourers having left South Africa
over the past 20 years the accumulative loss of employment to
the country is staggering. South Africa has one of the highest
burdening tax systems in the world, with comparatively abysmal
returns in services and this through some of the worst global
economic conditions. These policies will have to end in order to
reverse the trend of skilled emigration and spiraling
unemployment
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Re: Cape Party Manifesto
By: Hawk Date: March 16, 2018, 3:57 pm
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[quote]Health and Medical Care[/quote]
As with housing, medical care in the Cape is victim to a
concentrated migrant influx from other parts of the country.
Medical resources are limited and cannot even marginally support
the demands of the local population. The Cape remains home to
one of the highest rates of tuberculosis (TB) in the world.
Medication for the treatment of HIV and TB should be prioritised
to suffering patients from local communities. Census 2011 showed
a population increase of 29% in the Western Cape over a decade,
this was double the South African average.
The South African government will not increase the revenue
allocated to the Cape, yet we are burdened with providing
housing, electricity, water, employment and medical care for a
migrant influx, while the needs of our own communities cannot be
met.
Not only are our hospitals short on resources but also on the
skilled expertise required to meet the demand. South Africa’s
racist quota policies have driven desperately needed doctors,
medical professionals and specialists out of the country to
places in which they are valued according to their merit and not
their skin colour. Racism should have no place in the human
dignity of saving lives, these policies must end.
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Re: Cape Party Manifesto
By: Hawk Date: March 16, 2018, 3:58 pm
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[quote]Illegal Immigration and Strong Borders[/quote]
Charity starts at home. A government that cannot secure its own
borders or preserve the right of a citizen to the resources of
his/her own country is failing its fundamental function and is
no longer a legitimate government. The country is crippled with
well over 30% unemployment*, yet is flooded with unskilled
illegal immigrants entering the country who consume limited
resources. The Cape Party will enforce a strong border as this
is fundamental to the preservation of citizen’s rights to the
resources of their home country.
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Re: Cape Party Manifesto
By: Hawk Date: March 16, 2018, 4:00 pm
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[quote]Corruption[/quote]
The South African state is a rampant cleptocracy. Those in power
actively use their position to promote the financial interests
of themselves, their families and political allies. Nepotism is
so common that dinner table discussion and daily newsroom
publications refer to this trend as a simple matter of fact. The
SouthAfrican government’s R1.3 Trillion budget is a feeding
trough for the political elite.
The tax payer and the poor both suffer. Resources once used to
maintain the infrastructure and functioning of the country are
now known to have been embezzled, or simply ‘disappear’.
Government performs self-audits and find themselves not guilty.
There is no accountability.
The Cape Party will introduce the same checks and balances that
have ensured that Switzerland’s political system is one of the
least corrupt in the world. Referendums, initiatives, recall and
nullification are all systems that give voting power to
communities to ensure that the government spends their money the
way they are supposed to. If they do not, we the people put them
in jail.
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