Just recently one of their members tried to recruit me to become a candidate for that movement. I gave the gentleman a courteous reception and heard him out. His take on Cape Independence was in fact more the creation of a white controlled state than it was anything else. Nowhere were the indigenous people even mentioned, nor the Euro-centricism of the Cape, But I heard him out and pointed out the absence of any inclination to not only create independence for the Cape but the indigenisation of it. The gentleman sounded more interested in having my brown/black face on a poster to hoodwink the world that there were non-white people who supported this gimmick.

In fairness, I do believe that if the ANC continues to ignore and marginalise the Khoisan/Coloured people of the Cape as it has done consistently and if it insists that they continue to be called Coloured and not by their original Khoi-San tribal names; then there may be a case to be made for the separation of the entire Cape from South Africa. Remember this country was NOT a unitary state before 1910. But that cannot be for the creation of a colonial White ruled and dominated Cape. There is a strong case for government to rectify the henious misake it made when it neglected the Cape and allowed it to end up in the hands of the DA. It was the Skwatsha/Ncgulu faction who decided that ALL Africans must be black and that only a black leadership of the ANC would be a legitimate one in that area, ignoring the Khoi-Coloured majority down there who fought fiercely and bitterly to free SA from Apartheid. The lost lives of Dulcie September, Anton Fransch, Ashley Kriel and many others are proof of this.

The formation of the UDF and the invitation to leaders of the Mass Democratic Movement to join in proves even more that Coloured persons rendered the Cape ungovernable yet today some who were banished to the homelands and who never saw Coloured activism or read about early Khoisan resistance, are bold to foolishly say "Coloureds" never fought against apartheid. This is willful stupidity given the info available in the public domain on this matter. So the Cape Independence lot are squandering a great opportunity through their desire to create a political Orania out of the Cape. It must not be allowed to happen, no matter how aggrieved brown people justifiably feel at the treatment it is getting for "not being black enough" under a supposedly democratic government. Should THEY desire to secede from SA based on this, there IS a solid and justifiable case for the creation of the Republic of Camissa. But that is not what the Cape Independence Movemnt is busy with. They seem to be looking for an independent Euro-linked surrogate state which perpetuates Apartheid by nice fancy names and words. I have no intention of ever aligining with such but I WOULD support a Republic of Camissa which was borne out of the regions people's frustration with the refusal of the ANC to restore the indigenous people to their rightful place and identity if the government continues to act mad and ignore them.

That Republic of Camissa will not and must not be an exclusive race based entity because there are Khoisan people amongst almost ALL the SA tribes; many who were forced into these tribes by White colonial rule that was desperate to kill of that nation for fear of future land claims from the original people of the area. My clarion call to all of them would be to "Come Home to Your Original Identity." For this I would convene and call for a National Day of Rememberance and Mourning for 6 April, to commemorate the day colonial mayhem and chaos descended upon a peace loving people. Every Khoi Person whether from the Coloured, Xhosa, Zulu, Tswana, San, Sotho who were shoved into their current groups, will be invited home so that the Khoi Nation reconstitutes and positions itself to rule its own land again. To such a cause I can swear allegiance if the ANC continues to be racist against the brown people of this land.

Thank You.

Kenneth Gambo, Social Political Activist, convenor of Pecosa and Originator of the National Day of Mourning Remembrance of the Khoisan Peoples, set for 6 April, 2024.

(This is the original idea of Kenni Gambo, the writer of this article).