I remember hearing in 2012, that the Cape was planning on seceding from South Africa, this sounded frightful to me because I thought it would destabilise South Africa. I then warmed up to the idea so much that in the beginning of 2014, I began to conceptualize a South Africa separated by ethnic regions. A concept that only crystallised in my understanding of the world in mid-2015 as a path our land could go.
Descriptive map of South Africa from a Cape Independence advocacy group.
Now, I've accepted the idea of a divided South Africa so much that I think it's the only way to solve a large swath of our problems. The Cape should get independence.
The South Africa that the (Western) world hoped would happen didn't happen so now the only route allies of white South Africa should champion is an independent Western Cape. I have no doubt in their ability to govern themselves & they would be a refuge for many fleeing poverty & squalor in South Africa, they are already a refuge for "economic refugees" at present. They should, in fact, secede as soon as possible to prevent being further taken advantage of by South Africa. The Eastern Cape Tembu, Bophuthatswana & various other regions in South Africa have sought to secede in the past with only Namibia succeeding to gain independence from my knowledge. So, indeed, a divided or federated South Africa may be the future &, personally, I'll relish the opportunity of living in a true nation state should that moment arrive.
The fault many campaigning for the independence of various regions may have made is mock South Africa's leaders & institutions assuming that a new sovereign state would be free of the same problems they faced in South Africa. Perhaps the Western Cape would be free of being governed by South Africa but the rest of South Africa's regions would still have the leaders responsible for South Africa's problems & may "carry the disease" (of multiculturalism) into the new lands they'd be part of. Multiculturalism which causes never-ending misunderstandings among the people of the land is the devil in the detail &, I believe, is the prime enemy of progress in this land.
In my opinion; single-language, socialist states would deal with any lack of misunderstanding among the people. Because I genuinely do believe that most of South Africa misunderstands it's government & government misunderstands it's people because of the sheer diversity of the land. In a land where there's absolute equality & where all speak the same language, misunderstandings wouldn't happen.