WC independence on FF Plus’ agenda should it win majority of votes in province
The party unveiled veteran member of Parliament Corné Mulder as its Western Cape premier candidate on Wednesday.
Freedom Front Plus Chief Whip Corné Mulder is the party’s Premier candidate for the Western Cape for the 2024 elections. Picture: Lindsay Dentlinger/Eyewitness News
CAPE TOWN - The Freedom Front Plus says if it wins a majority of the votes in the Western Cape after the general elections, it will organise a referendum as a step towards secession of the province.
The party unveiled veteran member of Parliament (MP) Corné Mulder as its Western Cape premier candidate on Wednesday.
Mulder is the Freedom Front Plus’ chief whip and the party’s longest-serving MP, and after 36 years in the legislature, he wants to be the premier of the Western Cape.
The party also announced that it would be taking up the cudgels of the CapeXit Movement to declare the province an independent country.
Mulder said the notion is not as radical as some would think.
With his party in support of people’s right to self-determination, he said the groundswell in the province has to be tested.
“We need to start at the beginning. And if there is no real traction or no real support then a referendum will clearly indicate that. And that will settle it until who knows what will happen in future.”
Mulder doesn’t believe the notion of seceding the province is all that far-fetched.
“We may all get a big surprise that while the Western Cape still thinks about a referendum, things may overnight happen in KwaZulu-Natal, and KZN may go its own way. You never know.”
Mulder said his party is prepared to go into a coalition government in the Western Cape - to fight any attempt by the African National Congress and the Economic Freedom Fighters to wrest control of the province.