CapeTeXit
The CapeTeXit flag: a navy upper half and a red lower half divided by a broad white cross, with a red-and-white piece of nigiri sushi beneath a pair of crossed navy chopsticks at its centre.

A Proclamation to the Ratepayers of the Mother City

Free Cape Town from the Western Cape!

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The people of Cape Town are being economically destroyed and culturally embarrassed.

We can no longer afford these unmanageable taxes, nor the fact that the rest of the province just really doesn’t get it.

We are being socially, culturally and politically oppressed.

However, we, the people of Cape Town, can put an end to this madness.

As the Western Cape continues to destroy the vibe of the Mother City, Cape Town does not have to sink with it.

We, the people of Cape Town, can protect and preserve this beautiful Airbnb we call home.

Cape Town.

We are here to fight for you, and you alone.

It’s time to put Cape Town first. Free Cape Town from the Western Cape!

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The Founding Articles

Why CapeTeXit?

Six self-evident truths, set down by the Founding Committee over wine and burrata at Publik Wine Bar in Tamboerskloof (do try their delicious organic, natural and sustainable wines), and ratified, unanimously, before moving across the road for tacos at El Burro Taqueria.

  1. The rest of the Western Cape is an economic and stylistic burden on Cape Town.

    For too long the Mother City has carried the province on her back in a tasteful Fjällräven Kånken, and paid for the drip coffee.

  2. We are hamstrung by corruption in the outer reaches of the province, where grifters thrive.

    We can’t name specifics, because our investigators don’t want to drive past Durbanville. But one hears things, and one has always heard things, which is definitely a kind of proof.

  3. We are first world; they are third world.

    Dude, you can’t even get a matcha in Wellington. Okay, except at the Vida in the Railway Boutique. They have a boutique for trains! No man.

  4. Managing the decaying infrastructure of the Western Cape costs too much.

    Let’s be honest, a road that leads away from Cape Town is, by definition, a road we shall never use. Let the potholes have it.

  5. Cape Town is a dollar economy, maybe euro.

    We can’t be using these rands anymore. Especially since nobody in Cape Town takes cash anymore anyway. All those cash businesses in the province are bringing us down.

  6. People in the smaller towns voted for shitty fake parties like the Cape Party and Freedom Front Plus (plus what?)

    At least we assume somebody must have voted for them. Surely? So let’s give them what they want.

The Evidence

Facts! Facts! Facts!

Cape Town accounts for 90% of the province’s GDP, and yet pays almost 90% of its taxes.

Read that again. Slowly. Then ask yourself, what manner of province asks a city to contribute in exact proportion to what it earns.

This is the scandal that the Western Cape doesn’t want you to see!

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Bar chart: Cape Town's share of provincial GDP versus its share of provincial taxes Two bars of nearly identical height. Share of provincial GDP: 90 percent. Share of provincial taxes paid: almost 90 percent. Share of provincial GDP: 90% Share of provincial taxes paid: almost 90%
Practically identical. Wholly unconscionable. Source: the CapeTeXit Bureau of Statistics. Figures as supplied by the Founding Committee and in no way verified.

We Can Have Nice Things

Our Beloved Future Republic

Picture it: a sovereign city-state, bounded by mountain, ocean and solar-powered electric fences. Its own money. Its own border. Its own sense of entitlement, not the shabby hand-me-down provincial stuff.

Map of the proposed Cape Town Republic A stylised, not-to-scale map of the Cape Peninsula and its surrounds. The Atlantic Ocean lies to the west and False Bay to the south, both shown in navy. The proposed Republic is shown in white and enclosed by a bold red border, which begins on the west coast just north of Blouberg, runs inland and east to just beyond Stellenbosch, then turns south to meet False Bay near Gordon's Bay. Labelled places inside the border are Blouberg, the CBD, a vintage clothes store, Table Mountain, Stellenbosch and Cape Point. Small grape symbols mark annexed wine estates. Everything outside the border is faded to grey and labelled "The Rest (Someone Else's Problem)", with lightning-bolt symbols marking "Here Be Draggin' Us Downs". A small checkpoint icon sits where the N1 highway crosses the border, signposted "To Wellington". A compass rose with the CapeTeXit flag at its centre sits in the Atlantic, and a title cartouche in the lower left reads "The Republic of Cape Town: a true and sovereign delineation. Not to scale." N1 To Wellington → Blouberg CBD Vintage Clothes Store Table Mountain Stellenbosch Cape Point Atlantic Ocean False Bay Table Bay The Rest (Someone Else’s Problem) The Rest (Someone Else’s Problem) N The Republic of Cape Town A True & Sovereign Delineation Not to scale. Not to be questioned.
Survey of the Republic, using the ego scale.

Legend

  • Sovereign Territory
  • The Rest (Someone Else’s Problem)
  • Territorial Waters (Now welcoming Russian superyachts)
  • The Border (Heritage-Approved)
  • Wine Estates (Annexed)
  • Here Be Draggin’ Us Downs
  • Border Checkpoint & Matcha Bar
  • The N1 (Outbound Only)

A Note from the Design Committee

The Flag of a Free Cape Town Explained

We at the Free Cape Town movement, dare I say revolutionary movement, are super proud of the gorgeous new red, white and blue flag we’ve had designed. The new flag is a marvellous blend of stylishness leavened with a quirky marketable attitude.

Our brief to our designer buddies was simple. It had to be a simple design that you can tattoo onto a barkeep’s biceps, and also onto a barista’s buttocks. So it couldn’t be too complicated. That’s why the Union Jack works so well: it’s that forgiving kind of design where, if you start to get saggy, it just goes with it. Not that our flag is modelled on the UK flag, obvs. It just looks like it.

We also had one colour rule: none of this red, green and yellow nonsense. European flags tend to have blue, white and red, because those are colours you can trust.

The white in the flag represents inclusivity and diversity. Everyone is the same and equal in the Free Cape Town. We don’t see colour, we’re all white. Not a colour. That’s why the white stripes are in the middle, holding the whole flag’s design together. And then red, a strong colour, that represents the wine industry. The blue is a symbol of hope, because that’s what this movement’s about: giving hope to the beautiful people oppressed by the rest of the Western Cape. And also, obviously, it’s a homage to the waters of Clifton, which is where we’re going to be situating the embassy district. Mainly for cost reasons, since all the Europeans are there anyway.

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The Free Cape Town flag: navy over red, divided by a broad white cross, with nigiri sushi under crossed chopsticks at the centre.

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