A case for separation in South Africa

The Cape Party in South Africa has a proposal for the area formerly comprising the Cape Colony to secede from the rest of South Africa, and be an independent homeland for the Coloured and Afrikaner nations (who share a common Dutch heritage).

This seems like a win-win situation. The black nations, assuming they don't themselves split up (Mangosuthu Buthelezi of the IFP had something to say about that recently), would no longer be oppressed by White Monopoly Capital. They would have the mines (coal, gold, platinum, everything). They would have the most fertile farms, in the Free State, old Transvaal, KwaZulu-Natal and most of the Eastern Cape. They would have the busiest port in Africa, Durban. They would have the KZN coast tourists, and the Kruger National Park tourists.

There would be no question of how much affirmative action to implement, or how much Black Economic Empowerment is required to right the wrongs of the past. The population would be almost homogeneous (if the government continued to see all blacks as the same, and not separate them into nations of Zulus, Xhosas, Sothos, etc.). BLF and the EFF could stop their negative whining, and focus on building up their nations instead (a problem they share with some on the right). With less diversity in the country, politicans can focus more on improving their country rather than just group interests.

The Coloureds and Afrikaners would get Cape Town, with its relatively small industrial base, the Garden Route, with its tourism, and the great big nothingness that is the Karoo. But it is the part of South Africa which was never inhabited by the black (Bantu) nations before the whites arrived. In comparison with other colonisation efforts (like the Mfecane or the Cape Frontier Wars or British expansion in Natal), the Dutch colonisation of the Cape was fairly peaceful - so peaceful, in fact, that the Dutch and Khoisan mixed to start the Coloured nation of today.

As a general rule, Diversity + Proximity = War. But if the differences between groups are small, and they are not forced to mix, it can succeed. Switzerland, with its German, French and Italian groups, is the usual example given. In the UK, the English haven't fought against the Scots and Welsh in a long time. I can't guarantee that a country made up of Coloured and Afrikaner nations (with the probable addition of the English and Indian nations in South Africa) will be free of strife and inter-group rivalry. I can say, with almost complete certainty, that a separation of the non-black South African nations from the other nations will be more peaceful. And I'm sure even the extremists and racists of both sides don't want a race war if they can help it.

Traitors and declared enemies

Traitors commit treason. They are enemies of the nation, its people and its culture. The traditional punishment for treason is death, just as in war one kills the declared enemy.

In Victoria (partially available online), Maine's Governor Kraft massacres unarmed university professors. Everyone in the Northern Confederation has freedom of speech, but it was not for their speech that they were killed. It was for their knowing and willing opposition to the people and culture of their nation. Had they believed their actions to be for the benefit of the nation, they would not have been killed. But as declared enemies, they forfeited their lives. This was an act of self defence by the people of the nation.

In unrelated news, the following events have occurred.

Several Muslim men kidnapped two English girls, in England, and gang raped them to celebrate their religion which declares the Queen and people of England to be infidels who deserve death or slavery. These men have been jailed, which is punishment, albeit insufficient (Reopen Tyburn). But "supporters in the public gallery hurled abuse at the judge as he passed sentence later." These supporters have declared themselves enemies of the people and culture of England.

Jorge Ramos declared that the American country no longer belongs to the American people, but to Latinos who have invaded America. He has declared himself an enemy of the people of America.

Members of certain political groups in South Africa desire a white genocide. They have declared themselves enemies of the people and culture of the white tribes in South Africa.

For all the talk of NAxALT, when a subset of x declares themselves as enemies of the people and culture of a nation, it behooves the nation to treat them as enemies. Failure to do that does not end well for the passive nation, as the Moriori failed to learn in time.

The only alternative is separation. Return of England to the English, and the Muslims to their homelands. Return of America to Americans (or even smaller divisions), and the Latinos to Latin America. Separation of South Africa into its different nations, with an independent Cape Republic and perhaps even an independent KwaZulu. Absent this, all we have left to look forward to is Diversity + Proximity = War.