AfriForum is heading to the Constitutional Court in an attempt to force Parliament to change South Africa’s referendum legislation so as to give premiers legislated powers to call for a referendum.
“What I can confirm now is that we do plan to take the referendum legislation to the Constitutional Court to allow a premier to also call for a referendum as allowed for in the Constitution, but not in legislation.”Cape Independence Advocacy Group spokesperson Phil Craig said: “Devolution and Cape Independence have now become significant political issues in the Western Cape. The DA and the ANC debated them last week in the National Council of Provinces.
He said AfriForum’s Constitutional Court application would now make it even more difficult for the ANC to prevent such an action.“We know that AfriForum has strong sympathisers in the DA. Members and leaders of the DA are actively campaigning for more autonomy for the Western Cape, the only province the DA has ever won, and the logical conclusion of this kind of campaigning is a separate state from the South African one.
“Yet even the attempts to reform referendum legislation does not automatically mean that a referendum will be called, nor does it mean that we will be bound by an eventual outcome of a referendum. “All of us know what the outcome of a referendum on the death penalty will be, but we subscribe to a constitution. A constitution that unites, and which does not divide as AfriForum does,” Dugmore said.
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