Martin van Staden was featured in the Cape Argus expressing the FMF’s preference for the Port of Cape Town to be privatised or handed to municipal or provincial government.
The Cape independence movement is South Africa’s best catalyst for political decentralisation, which is in turn a necessary condition for secure liberty.
Even if you were a committed communist, or a card-carrying member of the Nazi Party, what would you put in a constitution if it was guaranteed that your worst enemy would govern your country (and by extension, you) under it?
The exercise of those powers of decentralisation, as exemplified in the Western Cape bill, should be seen as a strength of our constitutional democracy.
The business-as-usual approach is fraught with risk, which is why the FMF has proposed that Tshwane either privatise the power stations outright, or subject them to a stateproof lease.
