The Al Jama-Ah party has said it will push for an amendment to the Constitution, to prevent a referendum on the Western Cape seceding from the rest of South Africa, or what pro-referendum activists are calling “Cape-Exit”.
Hendricks was speaking as the Cape Independence Advocacy Group formally requested a referendum on Cape independence.
In his letter to Winde, CIAG spokesperson Phil Craig said that the group's recent opinion poll had demonstrated that a clear majority of Western Cape voters now support a referendum being called, to allow them to break away from South Africa, and to form a new sovereign state. “We hereby formally call upon you, as premier of the Western Cape, to give your public assurance, that within 90 days of the Electoral Commissions Amendment Act being passed into law, you will call a referendum on Cape Independence, at a future date to be determined by you, in conjunction with the Electoral Commission of South Africa,” read the letter.
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