Unfiltered | Is the idea of a self-determined Western Cape realistic? 25 April 2023

[@michellesaunders5958]

Glad to see the issue is making it to main stream news.

[@kamvamgwaza7142]

Glad to see Phil Craig is actually a foreigner and clueless about what he is pursuing

[@simphiwerini9652]

So you employed a UK accent coloniser to run this colonising marketing campaign. This guy is a bussness marketer from UK.

[@tshidiso9653]

It made it to main stream to show how stupid and racist this Cape Independence group is.

[@LNixon-d2r]

@kamvamgwaza7142 that's a lie. Phil Craig while yes born an Englishman, he adores his new country.

[@phumzilensele302]

We all want independence from anc

[@tau3ahamakhoa]

😂😂😂 Well said!

[@Dikkis100]

@@tau3ahamakhoa Then as a nation we need to go to the polls and vote against the ANC

[@kamvamgwaza7142]

Ballot box is the only thing that can solve your problems

[@vastpeople9623]

Spelling your last name with Small letter, proves your fake and hatred for assumed identity.

[@Babajagnee]

Why don’t you go back to Europe?

[@awehimruark]

Wow. Talk about a hostile moderator. Well done tho to Phil. You were clear and concise on your points.

[@arkuis]

Yeah, Sizwe really tried to make the Independence movement look bad. Willfully ignoring the multi-racial nature of the movement by ignoring the Cape Coloured Congress, desperately trying to racialise the issue, not taking the issue seriously, and stacking the panel with people hostile to the idea.

[@bandilemaphala4578]

Bias comment

[@petrotaljaardhome3412]

Every thing always turn into race battles

[@jolie1865]

​​@@petrotaljaardhome3412thats all they know.. brainwashed

[@olivialagrange6614]

The movement is anti-constitutional. Period

[@stephstormcrow]

If you want answers give the man the opportunity to answer you. This interview was conducted in bad faith. This is one reason we want independence we are tiered of trying to make the country better just to be dismissed and insulted. The SABC is just a mouthpiece of the ANC

[@pieter-venter]

Well said

[@jameskillu9171]

a colonizer should pack and go if not happy,

[@mash288]

F off to Europe, bloody coloniser. No European has the right to own African land. We are going to deal with you eventually, once your white loathing ANC has been voted out

[@tau3ahamakhoa]

Lol! The SABC also use to be a mouthpiece for the Broederbonder! Funny how the tables turn! If white people hate South Africa so much I’m sure Holland and Britain would welcome them back with open arms.

[@stephstormcrow]

@@jameskillu9171 I'm a South African. I've never colonized any thing.

[@robertking7506]

Fantastic performance by Phil Craig

[@Loadedopinions]

You are close to the ocean.

[@jameskillu9171]

He need to go to Europe and request for a province there. Africa is for Africans

[@koketsondikandika8440]

​@@Loadedopinions they want to queue there for ocean crossing

[@Loadedopinions]

@@koketsondikandika8440 he can swim. I couldn't care less... This country will never be broken by some idiots with a lot of airtime

[@charmainemoodley2414]

This reality took his breath away

[@romalouis1]

The equivalent of opening your house up to someone willingly or unwillingly and giving them a room to sleep in and then the same visitor demanding that his room be independent of the rest of the house…in a nutshell 😂

[@bongimtshali7719]

It's shocking to say the least.

[@jabulanismith]

Nice Analogy. Do you think his efforts are treasonous and he should be arrested?

[@ayeshawahab-g9q]

Bad analogy

[@phumzilensele302]

Why are people against self determination .. take your independence people And run with it

[@Pham33n]

the problem is that people define self-determination to suit whatever they are trying to achieve. I would argue that there's no definition of the term that has anything to do with this advocation in the context of South Africa

[@simphiwerini9652]

Independance means taling land where they will decide what goes in that country. Major consequences for township/capeflats blacks n coloureds. White supremacy Bullying n racism will prevail. Who will you complain to? Scores of people will be squeezed out of WC n youll see scores of Zim cheap labour continuing.

[@faa9261]

You can’t just do that without a civil war silly

[@carl4017]

Cape Town is a Great Town❤!

[@bandilemaphala4578]

For some.

[@nomazizizembe8662]

Racist town, crime I know I'm staying all my life in cape town township it's a degrace town that is so segratated till this day

[@lukasvr5088]

@@bandilemaphala4578 If you think for some then go to a better one that suites you.

[@babakawaz8225]

Sizwe you moderation was excellent.

[@mashuduthidiela9643]

I’m a big fan of Sizwe and an avid fan of his podcast but this was a truly a poor attempt at moderating a debate. He clearly has his own views and sees it fit to interrogate Craig while not challenging the baseless inflammatory accusations being made by the other panellist. As brilliant as Sizwe is, I fear he is out of his depth as a journalist and broadcaster

[@arkuis]

Very well said. I am also a fan of much of Sizwe's other work but for the reasons you mentioned he disappoints on this one.

[@redhowell7856]

I agree - I'm increasingly less impressed by Sizwe - when he interviewed Gayton Mackenzie he was openly hostile and biased - when he interviewed Fikile Mbalula his demeanour was meek, respectful and more professional - here he is openly biased and one sided. He is at best inconsistent in his approach and I think he really is out of his depth as you fear. Don't think I'm going to follow this channel anymore - it's frustrating in it's inherent bias through Sizwe's moderation.

[@njabulozikhali4966]

Only because he was objective in his argument. I suppose he would be more gooder or goodest if he is pro nonsense of Cape Independence 🙄

[@tshidiso9653]

Sizwe was spot on in being critical on stupid ideas

[@babakawaz8225]

You're an idiot. You lack understanding and you're poorly raised. This country does not and will not be sliced up by the tourist who frequent it in cape town.

[@Tinker8531]

This man keeps talking about Coloured and Blacks as if we vote the same way. Coloured people don't support the ANC government. It is Black voters who vote for the ANC.

[@marabunya]

Not every coloured person in South Africa lives in Cape Town and the Cape Flats and not all coloureds in South Africa live in isolation from black communities. There are in fact, South Africans of all ethnicities who vote parties of their choice including the ANC, and that has nothing to do with colour but rather, more with history and the dynamics that govern their communities as we speak. In Limpopo, members of black communities founded around the historically agricultural town of Groblersdal vote for FF+ so what makes you think there's not a single group of coloured people out there who would vote for ANC? What you've expressed is what Malema would normally refer to as the "chicken view."

[@herbtuck1481]

Shanaaz you and the DA with their moonshot can go to the moon with you’ll cape independence

[@jenodamons5408]

im colored from cape flats and the DA has oppress ppl of colour since they in control in cape town and white privilege has sky rocketed in cape town currently ...soo ppl of colour KNOW YOUR DA PLEASE!

[@jameskillu9171]

Yap, the coloured came to SA as slaves, when Africans refused to be enslaved. They were lied by the whites that they are better slaves than black people

[@carl4017]

​@@herbtuck1481 exactly! We Will take cape town to the moon with independence ❤

[@wandiletshabalala8167]

Sizwe needs way more experience in this.

[@bongimtshali7719]

What is this ?

[@nedor64]

This is a so-called "democratic" country so let the WC residents decide and not politicians some of which many people don't even know. Thanks Phil Craig.

[@Nelson_Mandela_]

That will never happen. It can only happen by blood

[@nedor64]

@@Nelson_Mandela_ Can happen "by blood" because there is no democracy in SA and those who demand democracy might turn to other means of reaching their legitimate goal.

[@Nelson_Mandela_]

@@nedor64 I can't wait 🙏🏿 bring it. We've been waiting for many years and we are ready when you are

[@arkuis]

@@nedor64 that's certainly the analysis that the very pro-independance Cape Coloured Congress believes. It's what separates them from the rest of the Cape independence movement who believe it can be done peacefuly. They believe that the rest of the country is too imperialistic and too desperate to to keep power centralised in Pretoria/Johannesburg that violence is most likely the most realistic option to achieve independence.

[@ellishaindobo1794]

WC residents should go be democratic in Europe.

[@MsTessa1989]

Thank you Dr van Heerden!!

[@JacqueleneTiltmann]

ANC will cling to anything that it can siphon the life out of

[@Tinker8531]

Shack people come from the Eastern Cape and ANC runs Policing that why it is a disaster.

[@MegaNanoT]

Where do you come from? You found black people in the Western cape when your great grand parent moved from Holland.

[@desocrate]

@@MegaNanoT you might want to review your history. Even Malema knows the truth.

[@pieter-venter]

@@MegaNanoT Mr Van Heerden himself said in this video that historically there were no Bantu in the Western Cape. You can't have it both ways. History is very very clear that no Bantu tribes were found South of the fish river.

[@patrickjacobs8417]

​@@pieter-venter dont argue with a stupid person.😂😂😂😂

[@agrid2608]

​​​​​​​@@pieter-venter Wrong. Van Heerden said there were no BANTUSTANS in the Western Cape. Bantustans are Native Reserves that were re-branded "Homelands" (Bantustans) in the 20th century. They were dumping grounds for expelled, ethnically cleansed populations. There were no 20th century native reserves in the Western Cape however as the Eastern Cape was always the Cape colony's native reserve, which is what he was saying, hence better conditions no matter which government was governing. (It was the best province under ANC too.) Also 1662 already colonists (Shryver and 22 men) went on expedition to encounter Xhosa pastoralists & stole and brought back a thousand head of their cattle. 1770 just happens to be when the colony frontier expanded east to Fish River & it lead to the critical mass of native resistance which resulted in the 100 year war & the native reserve.

[@RickOShay]

The W.Cape is by any factual measurement, the best governed province in SA by far.

[@ellishaindobo1794]

Still not going anywhere, mate.

[@kekeletsomolefi4463]

Say Cape Town, not WC.

[@RickOShay]

@Ellis Haindobo Far better than regressing like most regions in SA.

[@RickOShay]

@Kekeletso Molefi Actually that's inaccurate - even if you combine all municipalities in the WC they collectively outperform the other regions - that's despite problems with some badly run municipalities.

[@ellishaindobo1794]

@@RickOShay others can regress as much as they want, still not going anywhere.

[@xolilestilo8376]

What a waste of space Mr Thyido was 😢😢😂

[@romanussaal712]

It must be understood that Historically the Coloureds or Kleurlinge of the Ncape, have their Ancestral roots and DNA in the Western Cape....

[@waynesutton2491]

Self determination and independance is possible and should be granted and done.

[@Ngubo8]

The South Africa constitution does not allow secession. Section 235: Mentions the right to self-determination of communities, but within the framework of a united South Africa. This right focuses on cultural, linguistic, and religious autonomy, not territorial separation.

[@Babajagnee]

It will never happen

[@vimbextube7905]

The truth is Colourds and Indians might choose to go with the 15% or Craig's people. And i believe they want to be an independent country.

[@RicksPhatPharm-vw2lb]

We all tired of blacks,we vote to let you in and you demand the entire land after stealing Zimbabwe... I am tell you whites won't leave our land. If you don't get your Nguni brother's and Zimbabwe politics out the sub continent you going to see South Africans chase you. Zulus won't let whites leave and minorities won't setlle without the original 92 referendum signed. Blacks darling Jews in Cape Town wont be voted for either.we tired of hearing blacks say everyone stole your land,the gaslighting won't be forgotten or forgiven. Blacks still vote on racial lines it's pathetic

[@angiebreytenbach4232]

Many want it not just them...there are even legitimate African groups who want it....one's who have legally resided in the Western Cape for many years...and we're born there...

[@mrfun4540]

They like to be ruled by whites. Look at representation, majority of people in leadership jn Cape town and WC are whites, who only make 15% of WC population.

[@ngalahansel6066]

I got the impression that Mpofu Walsh didnt fo his homework bc he failed to challenge Mr. Craig on his view. I expected Walsh to bring up arguments to present to Craig instead of just throwing the question from one panelist to the other with his "How do you respond to that xyz?". This could have been a great discussion

[@desocrate]

Agreed, poor form from Mr Walsh

[@philcraig6175]

I would also preferred a much more substantial discussion where we discussed the merits of Cape Independence for the people of the Western Cape (and the rest of South Africa) rather than just focussing on whether random people thought it racist or not. If people understand the what, why, and when, then it is easier to reach an informed decision (either way)

[@ngalahansel6066]

@@philcraig6175 wow nice to see your comment Mr. Craig, though I don't agree with your decision to secede from South Africa . I believe that there's more to gain by building a stronger country and not creating Oranias and Western Cape Republics. I enjoyed the debate all the same. And I am an Anglophone Cameroonian and my part of Cameroon has been pushing to break away from the rest of Cameroon but it's degenerated into a bloody civil war.

[@nedor64]

@@ngalahansel6066 "I believe that there's more to gain by building a stronger country and not creating Oranias and Western Cape Republics" South Africa and the rainbow nation is failure since the beginning, Orania is developing at a surprising rate so why not develop more, it is working, it is a basic human right, it is the new trend in the world so we will develop more of what is successful in SA.

[@BJ-eg6gr]

@@philcraig6175 Can you plz tell us about your family...? Where are you originally from? How did you end up speaking the way you do, like a fresh import from the UK? In which part of the Western Cape did you grew up? Where did you attend primary school?

[@sayurimaharaj910]

Please advise why the other Parties have no diverse members on their leadership

[@jameskillu9171]

land appropriation without compensation should start in Western cape. How can colonizers seek self independence from the colonized

[@arkuis]

Because, it turns out, the "colonized" are in fact colonizers from the rest of South Africa. Not only that but many are imperialists from the Guateng metropol seeking to enforce their imperialist will on what they consider a colony of South Africa, the Western Cape.

[@ellishaindobo1794]

And their leader is from the UK. make it make sense?

[@mansamusa6505]

​@@arkuis you are delusional. Go back home to Europe

[@onkemakunga2963]

I'm listening to this debate for the 2nd time, the DA was also represented in the 1st debate. In that debate, the DA as the government of the Western Cape stated is official position on the WC's Independent i.e. it doesn't support this, so, using its governance track record as a means of justifying this absurd idea is not relevant. Phil Craig is a European expat who clearly moved to the WC assuming that its an extension of his European experience, his passion for this "independence" is driven by the idea of the WC as an outpost of Europe. This is a pipe dream

[@kamvamgwaza7142]

Great observation 👍

[@Jitesh_Dayal]

Sizwe missed an opportunity to scrutinise the DA government and what are they really achieve in the Western Cape. Crime is national government responsibility. Health, education etc.

[@simphiwerini9652]

Then what is DAs responsibility?

[@RSVPrr]

@@simphiwerini9652 cutting grass for rich people and arresting Putin

[@jolie1865]

​@@RSVPrr you hate the truth

[@jolie1865]

​@@simphiwerini9652Go look at the Cape and you will see

[@RSVPrr]

@@jolie1865 Says a ghost account

[@cobymars4341]

Yes to independence!!!

[@kamvamgwaza7142]

Yes to pipe dream

[@Antloo2009]

@@kamvamgwaza7142 jou moer. Ons soek a afhanklikheid!

[@Panda-jv7tt]

Cape Independence is coming!

[@Tebogo16v]

Better chance of seeing Jesus

[@Nelson_Mandela_]

We're not in 1852 @Panda it's 2023, don't play us like that. FAFO

[@cloudstrife8791]

Better do it will the lights are still on. Gugulethu and khayalitsha people can be deported back to north africa ill pay tax to send them to their ancestral home

[@mponengjoe9075]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@carl4017]

​@@Tebogo16v he will come too!

[@BJ-eg6gr]

Their idea of independence is inspired by guarding previlege not fighting poverty and correcting our apartheid past and neo-apartheid.

[@markriordan9010]

....and what makes you say that ? Are you not confusing class differences (present in every society) with race differences ? You can't deny there are "poor" Whites, as well as very affluent Blacks.

[@BJ-eg6gr]

@@markriordan9010 it is true that there are poor whites. But in the case of Cape town, white people who could not do well at school, who are poorer in the sense that they own one car, one house and are making ten thousand rands income per month. These white fellow South Africans can still earn a living by opening up their homes to tourist. For example, Europeans and others are willing to pay R30 000 for a mere three weeks stay. Again, they can take advantage of living in a safe neighbourhood and operate as Uber drivers or sell home made cup cakes, etc. I know a women, who are in this business. People of the Western cape don't even need employment. As soon as the apartheid spatial planning is dismantled, Capetonians would take advantage of their tourist popular province and, make money for themselves.

[@SizweDlokweni]

Yes finally! They seriously think that we can't see past they lies and propaganda it's really annoying! And they really being delsional thinking we Africans will allow an independent Western Cape😂..the only thing coming is land coming back to its rightful owners violently cause we been talking and no results have come so it's time to join the struggle for Economic Freedom in our lifetime!

[@thatoram7872]

People are allowed to dream.

[@malhabmadlala8342]

What about the lived experience of those in other parts of the country that never voted for the ruling part? They too are suffering from a government they never elected, the same way as the people Craig is advocating for

[@angiebreytenbach4232]

Then why do they not also advocate for secession?? Nothing is stopping them from starting such a process...

[@jolie1865]

​@@angiebreytenbach4232No they want us to do it.. and just come and want a piece of the cake and demands and criticize all that we have achieved

[@menzimngadi6793]

The question is where do you draw the line. That means every political and ideological group deserves an independent state.

[@boydownunder8979]

Unfiltered sounds to me as very filtered with Mpofu Walsh trying to win and dominate the debate.

[@rah1721]

Ndithini Tyhido is not worth having on this panel. He can only think of one thing to say.

[@ellishaindobo1794]

So, the truth?

[@thatoram7872]

😂 WC independence is a waste of space. Get it thru you thick wasted skull.

[@mash288]

They can ask for independence in Europe. Not here on African land,where the land has been fertilised by our ancestors. The ANC shouldn’t have been soft on such people and we will have to show them in 2024, that South Africa belongs to the natives.

[@archiemokhethi8464]

The ANC says that SA belongs to all who live in it. Just saying....

[@mash288]

@@archiemokhethi8464 They need to be removed. Land should belong to natives and that doesn’t include any European, west African, East African,Zimbabwean, Zambian, Congolese, Chinese, Indian, Pakistani. Brazilian etc. Only the native such the Khoi, amahlubi, Basotho, Venda, Zulu, Tsonga, Tswana,Swati, San etc. That’s what needs to be establish to liberate the native as we haven’t had any freedom since 1652. We need to take back what belongs to us, so we can build ourselves like any other nation in the world even Zimbabweans, Japans, Nigerians etc got their opportunity to build themselves abs thrive without disturbance from non-natives.

[@SizweDlokweni]

We will show them violently!

[@Antloo2009]

With that logic you should go back to Northern Africa

[@patrickjacobs8417]

That is the problem with so called Coloured intellectuals. They want to be black and they dont have a pulse on what ordinary Coloureds think and feel.

[@florenceshamase8104]

I don't think it is wrong to be black. "unless there is a benefit for being white..

[@arkuis]

Yes, it also does not help that Oscar is an old ANC cader.

[@thetad1242]

Do colored people to self govern?

[@mansamusa6505]

So you think colords are Wh.tes? Or Wh.tes wi take care off you?

[@SamMsi-dq5rg]

Racism manifesting in a very sophisticated form. Independence from whom in Africa?

[@matabelelandbroadcastingcorpor]

If the DA won the National elections in 2024 or any other year, would the proponents of Western Cape independence be still in favour of seceding?

[@Lungile_Adams]

Cape independance won only 0.01% election, the second time they won 0.06%. Why didn't they win the elections in the Western Cape if everybody in the Western Cape wants independence, they can't even win 1%

[@PeterJohnJnb]

Yep. People in the province have been opened up to a new potential future that is local, offers direct democracy and is far from central government. Many similar movements exist all over the world where people want smaller - not bigger, government.

[@wahwah7701]

@@PeterJohnJnb Try and do that and we will go to war. No one will brake SA. You trying to steal our natural resources. We carry Russian weapons now so don't even try to do something stupid

[@tryingmybest206]

Irrelevant since they wont win

[@mrfun4540]

Nop, this is an Anti-black rule

[@nonkolo_faith]

Sizwe is just such a model young person in this country!! He was raised well.

[@rah1721]

This is not about him, it is about a debate, which quite frankly he isn't managing very well at all. He hasn't done his homework.

[@thembi9645]

@@rah1721 u probably don’t even know that it’s his first Time, How was your first day at school, geeeez give him a break

[@NevilleOakes]

Yet Again Cape Town....Sizwe did a great job....It was Craig who was getting all agitated, shifting In his chair,scratching his head,and rambling on,when Sizwe wanted to bring the other panellists in... Oscar van Heerden,Kudus to you...Cool,Calm and Collected...Son of the Soil.... Kaapenaar deur en deur....We will not accept independence....It's a pipedream after all...

[@Antloo2009]

Sizwe was so biased in this, I’m sorry.

[@juanvanwyk7484]

It is clear that Mpofu had no idea and did little to no homework. At times he regurgitate the same false statements as fact. He is clearly biased and not worth listening to.

[@boydownunder8979]

I agree

[@montgomerysparks7693]

The ANC would benefit from an independent Cape.. They would instantly get rid of the bulk of DA voters and get to govern un challenged in the rest of South Africa. It looks like a win win.

[@barbaramotsepe45]

No,we want that land of ours, those whites people must go back to their roots

[@mapleridge466]

Wow,! what a great idea! Put it to vote please and we beg you to implement it asap.

[@ellishaindobo1794]

Or settlers can just go to Holland and try for an independent Holland.

[@montgomerysparks7693]

@@ellishaindobo1794 I've lived in Africa for longer than you my friend. But keep going with your way of thinking. Its clearly not helping you or the poor people of SA. They've all gone down under the ANC as much as Bafana Bafana (from 17th to 67th since 1995). Same with the value of the Rand and your childrens future. Keep voting along racial ANC lines instead of competent DA government, as seen in the Cape.

[@ellishaindobo1794]

@@montgomerysparks7693 Lived Africa but are you African? Very differently friend. Go and liberate Rotterdam from Holland, Montgomery.

[@kingkony6252]

Great work. Sizwe is an inspiration and role model to young people

[@mashuduthidiela9643]

Ummm… no

[@Antloo2009]

Size is biased boitjie

[@exchequerinvestmentscc9112]

tuned in with concern from Namibia.................we are trying to keep up and they still keep pushing......

[@sibusisokhumalo3013]

Do Namibians consider being integrated back into south africa?

[@exchequerinvestmentscc9112]

@@sibusisokhumalo3013 we never was integrated....administrated yes.....apartheid is over....already.....we are a nation

[@sibusisokhumalo3013]

@@exchequerinvestmentscc9112 you dont wanna share our mess as a brother state,take some of these immigrants

[@exchequerinvestmentscc9112]

@@sibusisokhumalo3013 LOL......they everywhere boss....

[@agrid2608]

The ANC had plurality of the vote in the Western Cape for quite a number of years so saying the national government didn't match provincial since 1994 doesn't add up. Also if a Republican is in national office in the U.S. and New York State votes Democrat, the next step isn't secession. And no, it was in fact only 0.6% for independence in the vote, the party he includes to claim more support is VF+, which agreed with the principle of a province holding referendums, not Cape independence. And your Cape Town numbers are decade old. The 2016 CPT community survey showed: Black 42.6% Coloured 39.9% White 16.5% Asian/Other 1.1%

[@desocrate]

It didn't win by votes though, it won by floor crossing (NP merging into the ANC and taking votes with them) which was later ruled illegal.

[@agrid2608]

@@desocrate i didn't say anything abour governments being formed. I said ANC had the plurality of votes.

[@desocrate]

@@agrid2608 They didn't though, the votes were merged.

[@agrid2608]

@@desocrate they still held MORE votes than other parties, which is the point. I'm not talking about how they formed a government.

[@kg356]

Ths US isnt effectively a one party state like South Africa where the same party has ruled for 30 years.

[@corinnevanjaarsveldt6087]

This presenter has a nerve! I see DA councillors working hard on ground level improving the lives of the poor in western cape. They give them fish for a while to gain strength, then take their hands and teach them how to catch those fish. There is the difference in provinces. That is the kindest thing to do. The strongest help the weakest to become strong. If my parents just left me without showing me the ropes in life, i would have become a coach potatoe. I think by now we have killed apartheid in the 30 year anc reign. Sars list of taxepayers do not lie. The 8nflux of illegal immigrants in sa, and the gold mafia has robbed many funds that should have been applied to education, housing for the poor. This is where the problem lies.....NOT WITH RACISM BUT GANSTERISM. open borders for criminals who place us in total darkness

[@ellishaindobo1794]

Western cape still not going anywhere.

[@jolie1865]

They are so racists they like to go on holiday in the western cape buy houses there like the roads without potholes like the service that are up to standard everything that is working like it should be ..she did not contributed to anything the DA achieved but still HAVE her apartheid againts whites because they want us to have nothing critize when we do beter that them

[@BJ-eg6gr]

Listen to Craigs accent, it just says it all.

[@rah1721]

That's an inch deep mile wide statement. It is the truth he speaks that counts, rather than the accent he has.

[@BJ-eg6gr]

@@rah1721 The truth 😄😄. Oh my word 🫣 whtat is THE TRUTH???

[@rah1721]

@@BJ-eg6gr Apparently something you're not too keen to hear. Pity.

[@moriok6353]

True, I close my I eyes and I listen to a Boris Johnsons‘ accent

[@Antloo2009]

@@rah1721 if I say something about your accent, then I become racist.

[@arkuis]

Wow, Sizwe is a hostile interviewer here towards the pro-independence interviewee. The panel is stacked against the issue and they come cross, including the interviewer, as desperately trying to racialise the issue in an attempt to shut it down and not talk about the real issues that are fueling the growth of the independence movement. It feels like that the purpose of this interview was to convince black people outside of the Western Cape that it is a project by racist whites instead of having a serious discussion about why this movement is growing and becoming a real issue. I think Sizwe really disapoints here, very unprofessional.

[@bongz7452]

Lol did you watch that interview??? Seems the Brit was hostile in the interview. Even his tone

[@arkuis]

@@bongz7452 I agree, the "Brit" (as you call him), did seem to loose his cool at one point which did him no favours. However that is not what I am talking about, the biased and often loaded questions the interviewer asked is the hostility I am talking about. In this format, where the host is supposed to be a mediator between all the panelists, it is problematic if he is seen to be taking a side. Its okay for guests to be biased, that is why they are on after all (to represent a point of view) and even hostile but not the host. Unless their format is polemical where the host is supposed to be opinionated but then the show must do us the viewer the favour by telling us that. Otherwise the how show is duplicitous and comes across as trying to trick us, the viewer.

[@bongz7452]

@@arkuis I hear you!

[@charmainemoodley2414]

He did seem annoyed but can you blame him.

[@BJ-eg6gr]

If the Western cape is governed well, then why after more than 20 yrs of DA rule is our province not looking like Mauritius?

[@philliphng3568]

The Province looks pretty amazing. Cape Town looks way better than Mauritius

[@carl4017]

Cape town is beautiful ❤

[@lionelsmith6129]

Because of the ANC

[@rickmorty7284]

The Western Cape independence movement is a dizzy one, but at this point, the race question is irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. What exactly would we have the DA do about racial inequality in SA? The ANC has had ample opportunity to address inequality by doing the basics right, but the ruling party has failed, with hundreds of billions at their disposal every single year. What did South Africans think would be the result of the rampant corruption, wastage and inefficiency in the country's public services like education, healthcare, police etc? Did you think there would be no consequences? Just last week, a man died because he was a witness to corruption at the University of Fort Hare; a historically black institution. A few weeks ago, it was discovered that money that was meant for school feeding schemes, was being looted by KZN government officials and when Christopher Pappas complained about the issue in a live stream, the chair of the ANC in KZN responded by saying he should be "dealt with". As we speak, NSFAS is being looted right under our noses by the largely ANC board, after they decided to centralize accommodation accreditation. Meaning it would be a lot easier for them to accept bribes to accredit accommodations owned by their fellow comrades. These things have been happening for years, so did you not think there would be consequences? South Africans find themselves here because of themselves and the ANC. SA's tax revenue is more than the GDP of most countries on this continent, but it is being looted by scoundrels with no foresight beyond themselves and parties at KONKA. Kids don't finish school, parents don't bother involving themselves in their child's education, and so kids end up living in shacks making more kids. Crime is rampant because of widespread police incompetence, ineptitude and corruption, which has led to the DA having no choice but to create their own crime fighting force, since they are unable to get the ANC government to strengthen law enforcement legislation. It all goes back to the ANC.

[@zwai9532]

Because it's not Mauritius and why would western cape look like Mauritius???

[@PanAfricanist1963]

These are ideas of Hendrik Verwoerd. The Afrikaners have always wanted to create a separate state within South Africa since 1642.We fought against such racist ideas and we will fight against them with all we have.

[@charmainemoodley2414]

Orania fever

[@jeanlaguerre1857]

why don't you move to Europe leave South Africa alone.

[@conrad8777]

There is no chance of the DA succeeding with this ridiculous idea of becoming a separate state, racism is alive and well in the Western Cape. The notion of people of colour having to know their place in this racist governed province is a well known truth.

[@katleho011gauteng8]

😂😂😂 don't ask me why I'm laughing....🤔🤔 when will stop with racism not only In Mzansi but the whole world as people of colour and do something about it how long do we use this card

[@carl4017]

Da Is not cape independence. These are 2 entirely separate groups😂.

[@conrad8777]

@@carl4017 I see the engine is running but there is no one behind the wheel😂

[@carl4017]

@@conrad8777 I see you are incapable of reading up about either agenda. Some people are only in beta phase...

[@conrad8777]

@@carl4017 Keep dreaming,that day that you are hoping for will never come.

[@rah1721]

The moderator is like a police officer shouting "There's nothing to see here" at an enormous accident......PLEASE!! It is quite clear that given the chance the majority of WC voters would support W Cape independence. This narrative trying to spew racism is a desperate attempt to squash what is happening. The only reason so many people migrate to the western Cape is because it is run successfully and many of the voters who vote for the DA would like to see the province have national competency controls over the province too as the ANC continues to prove themselves incompetent.....that can only happen with seccession. The government cannot stop it from happening - as much as the other panalists keep saying so.

[@bongz7452]

But seeing that this is Africa, fortunately wont happen... Try Europe!

[@rah1721]

@@bongz7452 Closer than you think Bongo

[@bongz7452]

@@rah1721 Lol oh really

[@rah1721]

@@bongz7452 ROFLOL Yebo yezz

[@MukholaMukhola-k6k]

Yes, the idea of Western Cape self-determination is very very real, remember South Africa is a democratic country and you cannot do anything about it, it is not only the Western Cape, black communities such as Zulus, Pedi, Tswana, Vendas, Tsonga etc

[@bhekienxumalo]

That white guy should be investigated if he is a South african or a british citizen . He needs to check how many pasports he has and if he has a South african citizenship , how he got it. I rest my point there. It looks like there is coffee ☕️ selling with this guy.

[@phumzilensele302]

Why shouldn't eastern Cape take what belongs them everybody must take their province

[@kamvamgwaza7142]

WC belongs to South Africans.

[@siphomngomezulu5680]

Foolishness is not drunk in a cup, Funda-Khula-Bona.

[@simphiwerini9652]

Lesotho did n they starved

[@PatrickSkosana-uc9gi]

​@@siphomngomezulu5680 c3 p9p

[@ashwynclassens5175]

I'm no longer enjoying the way Sizwe is interviewing or "debating" his guest. I know its his job to turn it up but they way he interrupts and speaks over his guest and also the arrogance in his responses and the notion of always wanting be right, seesh. I'd walk off!

[@shandukanimanyaka5654]

The guys is not originally from South Africa. What a nerve?

[@siyabongatshabalala9710]

Thank you Sizwe! ❤😊

[@IsmaelNxala]

This wasn’t a debate, it was 3 people opposing everything one guest said, honestly expected an intellectual non biased debate about what it means and would mean if the western cape was self governed

[@Teeman812]

They want to be racist in peace 😅

[@briopalumpus8676]

EXACTLY, they want rule of law with out being accountable.

[@Antloo2009]

Always making it a race thing. It’s not about race. Phil didn’t mention anything negative about another race in this whole interview. Just unite for once man.

[@BJ-eg6gr]

If you ask him, how far back does his family go in South Africa...? You will discover that this Craig is first generation and a chlild of a recent immigrant in South Africa. Andrian Verwoed was a child of an immigrant too, not a voortrekker. There is something particular in South Africa about them. Many Europeans who moved to South Africa to seek tranquility or to start a business say, as recent European immigrants they arrive in South Africa as anti-racist but in no time; they become staunch racist. Others have said they were warned by whites in South Africa against paying Africans a living wage. All of these and the other, including this independence nonsense, is about self preservation.

[@arkuis]

That is what is called a "red herring", an accusation that is totally irrelevant to the issue being discussed and is designed to distract everyone.

[@mapleridge466]

Why not? Don't you eat to stay alive or do you eat so your neighbour can live?

[@SizweDlokweni]

Ungakali kakhulu bru we will get our country back one day and send back those who came by boat!

[@mapleridge466]

@@SizweDlokweni Your Country?

[@margaretconstant1079]

I am a Cape Tonian, I am all for independence..let's understand this..we have a right..our Khoisan heritage..this is not racist but the coloureds want our heritage ..Khoisan..Go WC..

[@thabosr1541]

What a time to be alive, confrontational times, no African space must be independent.. if anything we must unite africa, period.

[@Olcool]

America remains United states of America, Europe is remaining United but the whites are coming to Africa can asking for divisions and independence. What an irony

[@santamills8638]

Rather more smaller countries like Eritrea (independence from Ethiopia in 1993) and South Sudan ( independence from Sudan on 9 July 2011). Rwanda is better managed than DRC. Smaller...better.

[@mansamusa6505]

​@@santamills8638than go live in Rwandan

[@nd0nd042]

The Western Cape is part of South Africa and therefore belongs to all South Africans not just those who presently dwell in the Western Cape. if and only when the majority of the South African citizens and the government of the South Africa agree to grant the Western Cape its independence then this is just a pipe dream.

[@arkuis]

Yup, and South Africa used to be part of the British Empire. That has certainly changed... so will this.

[@margaretconstant1079]

You don't speak we in the Cape..this is Khoisan heritage..don't you dare tell us what to do..

[@mansamusa6505]

​@@margaretconstant1079Go Europe. Ur ancestors are European not Khoi

[@mansamusa6505]

​@@arkuisgo to Europe. You'll be part of the British empire

[@arkuis]

@@mansamusa6505 Anyone who says "just leave and go to X" is not worth listening to. They are just intolerant, closed minded and part of the problem.

[@asiphenyabelemosha9345]

I give it Dr Oscar

[@mapleridge466]

What about an in depth program on the failures of the ANC Government in the other 8 provinces!

[@jonathanagulhas646]

Apartheid no more 'what a ludicrous idea!if you're not happy here go back to Europe 'this is Africa damnit 🤨

[@antisuz183]

The suffering of poor black communities is a country wide problem. Why single out the Western Cape?

[@shadk337]

I won’t be surprised if Phil and his followers already have some form of a revised Dompas in mind.If something like this would be allowed to happen, trust me , another TRC would be assembled by our grand children.

[@bongz7452]

Lol this Craig guy is a liar... It will never be independent!!!!! Never!!! We will move forward whether they like it or not. Remove the ANC and have a functioning party through out the country. Everything else must be in Europe. Asisova ngabo!

[@arkuis]

They used to say that the sun "never" set on the British Empire, well those days are over and those colonies of the empire are independent. Now we must finish the job and make the Cape independent and separate it from that left over of the British Empire, South Africa.

[@carl4017]

Now do KwaZulu-Natal independence!

[@charmainemoodley2414]

Yes, they just waiting for WC to do it and then they can use the same documents. Following will be JHB and PTA

[@afurakashomara3409]

Mr Graig's accent is also foreign as he sounds more British than South African

[@gabrielmkhonza7195]

He is British. Even his flag shows is uncannily resembling the Scottish flag.

[@PeterJohnJnb]

That’s a healthy dose of xenophobia you’re sporting Sir

[@kamvamgwaza7142]

@PeterJohnJnb It's not Xenophobia. He must pursue that independence in Europe

[@kg356]

​@@kamvamgwaza7142 ridiculous. Blacks and other minorities will call you a far right bigot if you call for white only european countries. Worthless idiots

[@omphemetsetsiane2204]

Why didn't they question what they benefit from a relationship with South Africa during apartheid.. no sir this is really on the racial side

[@DirkUys-j6n]

3 people with an IQ of around 20 and one guy with an IQ of plus 100. You decide.

[@kamvamgwaza7142]

I assume Phil Craig has IQ of over 100 but at the same time. Yet he can't see that cape independence only exists in his mind.

[@XabisoNcanywa]

@@kamvamgwaza7142 Lol! How many PhDs does Phil hold from Havard University?

[@romalouis1]

2 Doctors🧐

[@zero10111]

Only an enemy seeks to saw division to united people, Capetown must correct / not allow this kind of division that others are trying to plant in this country

[@renengwenya8685]

SA cannot afford to entertain any idea for segregation.

[@Tinker8531]

SA cannot afford to be destroyed further by the ANC, whom the rest of you keep voting for.

[@desocrate]

SA cannot afford it's current existence.

[@mansamusa6505]

​@@desocrateleave then. No one is stopping you. Go to Europe or America

[@ScissorN]

I think we should make this easy, Craig bring your army then we bring SAndf the winner takes it all

[@ScissorN]

@C. West 😂 go back to wherever you came from … oh wait you cant cause they also dont want you there

[@desocrate]

When last did you see SANDFs performance?

[@pieter-venter]

You really want to bet on the SANDF? They not what they used to be... They could not even stop a riot in KZN. It was common citizens who had to step in and defend themselves

[@africawasblack]

I say .....black vs white ......winner rakes all

[@ScissorN]

@@pieter-venter yeah I would bet on SANDF so please show me Graig Phil's military plus weapons 😂😂... Well you can't cause it doesn't exist 😜🤣

[@pieterlubbe-if9rg]

What a wonderful idea sorry that it was poorly facilitated let the people of the Cape save South Africa

[@thembi9645]

Majority Colored, how many of them are business owners, farm owners in the Cape?

[@kg356]

Crazy you guys are so concerned about farm ownership like its 1850

[@JamesSumner-Goodwin]

Why did the SABC even agree to give him, an unexperienced in media academic.. a show on prime time. Are they that desperate now?

[@redflag4255]

If it was Racist it would mean no Blacks would be allowed. This argument is nonsensical. "Racist"- ANC proverb

[@citizenoftheplanetjr61]

Reminds me of the evil days of apartheid! They think that we are stupid!

[@desocrate]

No one thinks you're stupid. Uninformed, yes.

[@123vict5]

I can't take this "unbiased moderator" seriously because he obviously has issues with this.

[@CherylAlfred-qw2yo]

Im from Dbn but i love CT.

[@lungamasuku6872]

Great job Mr Mphofu Walsh!!!,great interviewing skills!!,Xoli from news Africa can a thing or two from you!!!!

[@bongz7452]

This Craig guy is delusional. This is Africa!!!!

[@Antloo2009]

That’s like saying there can’t be independence movements in Europe because it’s Europe. Doen jou navorsing.

[@Babajagnee]

This will never happen. We will never allow this. They can go back to Europe and be self-determined there

[@kg356]

You would still call them racists

[@mljcombrink8484]

Yes....!!!!!

[@allennomvete]

What happens when EC wants its own independence and self determination? WC must understand that, that is not America and they not in Texas! The idea is nonsensical to say the least!

[@sisandamatomela3272]

Basically these so called "independence" people want to go back to apartheid and the group areas act; they are just too dumb to realize it. The fact that we have at the helm of this nonsense a british foreigner is the epitome of white privilege !!...I mean imagine a African expat to Europe even having airtime on national to advocate for a "independent" piece of Europe. Even tolerating this is a testament of our patience as South Africans.

[@phumzilensele302]

Orange FREESTATE will take what it belongs to them too .....the name speak volumes too

[@cloudstrife8791]

Cape independance 👍

[@ellishaindobo1794]

In Holland?

[@InJouHande]

Horrible interview. It's more of an "intervention" than a debate, that's for sure.

[@heinrichsass9974]

WC best governed that's why people flocking from other provinces. The informal issue a legacy problem ....

[@florenceshamase8104]

Sizwe my son congrats for this show. pls don't dump your SMWX.❤❤

[@phumzilensele302]

Corlouds will never choose anc if they had to choose between anc and DA ....... . OBVIOUSLY CORLOUDS WILL CHOOSE DA

[@kamvamgwaza7142]

They are such a small group. Not intimidating anyone

[@tryingmybest206]

@@kamvamgwaza7142 yet they are the largest racial group in western cape

[@Cebo124]

"We don't have to be helpless cargo on someone else's ship" Mr Craig, a free man who willingly relocated from Britain to the Western Cape, to enrich himself, is using the tragic history of the Cape coloured people to argue his point. He's THAT greedy!

[@claimtofail]

Since these three people of color (the interviewer and other two panelists) want to make Cape independence all about race. As a coloured person living in the Western Cape I will show what race is all about when I take the Cape independent. I want to see the dumb look on Sizwe "Welsh" face when I do it too. Within 30years the Cape will be a trillion dollar economy mark my words!!!!

[@sisandamatomela3272]

Your dream of going back to apartheid and group areas act WILL NOT happen, I suggest you and this British racist on this panel who comes to South Africa as a foreigner to advocate going back to apartheid come to terms with that !! it will NEVER happen !!

[@TshepisoMogami]

lol soon or later those white ppl will oppress you and dump you like nothing .betrayal is in the White Mans DNA mark my words!!!

[@charmainemoodley2414]

I think you should go ahead and claim your victory. We will all be watching. We want to learn from you.

[@thembanimgenu190]

The Western Cape is only comparable to Gauteng I would say at the economic level of schemes that is. Other Provinces are just a number by the way the ANC is gonna lose Gauteng. But my point in the discussion is we don't even need the provincial layer of government let alone the independence of a province. My energy would rather be on dismantling the provinces. Very informed host, the SABC did themselves a favour on this one

[@lethuzulu4966]

A simple google search will tell you that Gauteng's GDP is more than double that of the Western Cape. Gauteng's economy is so large, that it's the 7th largest... in Africa. There is Gauteng, and then there is South Africa

[@jacquesdewet2661]

You are asking for a big brother government.. a dictatorship!

[@Themba-j7m]

Very interesting interview ❤

[@malcolmmacleod576]

@@lethuzulu4966 Thats misleading as Gauteng has a larger population, look at GDP per capita for a more accurate picture. Gauteng still larger but not by nearly as much as you think, and a big chunk of Gautengs GDP is government related, take that a way and the gap is quite narrow, finally a large portion of Gauteng GDP is mining as well so WC has a much more modernised and long term sustainable economy.

[@thembanimgenu190]

@@lethuzulu4966 either you don't get my point on the discussion or you are missing the whole discussion and what it's about.

[@arkuis]

The Nuuspod debate on KZbin is a much better quality debate on Cape independence than this. For anyone wanting to get a better understanding of this issue I would strongly suggest that video. They have a diverse panel of Western Cape politicians who genuinely understand provincial political talking about the subject at length and present well articulated positions for and against Cape independence. Not a motley collection of opinionestas forming a panel that is biasedly stacked for a particular opinion presenting a shallow alarmist view from Gauteng that is almost totally disconnected from the realities of Western Cape politics.

[@mornemarais4198]

Cape independence has far more support than you all would ever believe we are a sleeping lion...

[@mansamusa6505]

Take the sleeping lion to Europe.

[@Education7798]

Then Kwa Zulu Natal must get independent and Baphutho Tswana restored

[@tebellotsotetsi9477]

Then Freestate and Lesotho unite

[@Antloo2009]

Exactly, they have the right to self-determination, nothing is stopping them from campaigning for it and I’m sure they’ll win.

[@XabisoNcanywa]

You can not fool Sizwe... where is the explosive polls?

[@moriok6353]

Wherever there is a colonizer there is a problem of race and separation 😢…In his dreams I must say