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The CIAG has written to President Ramaphosa and provided him with a copy of our legal paper. It sets out how self-determination applies in SA and deals with two current applications, WC policing & Afrikaans schools

September 22, 2026

CIAG Team

The CIAG has submitted a legal monograph to the President setting out the legal basis upon which sub-national communities can assert their right to self-determination which the State must then accommodate

September 22, 2026

CIAG Team

A CIAG published law paper with far reaching consequences. It examines the undeniable and non-derogable right of qualifying communities to self-determination within the South African State

September 18, 2026

Phil Craig

CIAG welcomes new US visa restrictions targeting South African officials involved in race-based discrimination, saying international pressure may be needed to defend the principle of non-racialism.

September 16, 2026

Phil Craig

PRESS RELEASE: CIAG applauds CoCT on policing dispute, says asserting the right to self-determination would guarantee success in WC

August 4, 2026

CIAG Team

CIAG responds to the Inclusive Society Institute, an ANC-aligned think tank, on the ethics and legal viability of Cape Independence

June 17, 2026

Phil Craig

RIGHT TO REPLY: Independence movements are almost always grievance driven. If you don't take the time to understand the why, your analysis will be flawed. CIAG responds to Mike Siluma's article in the Sunday Times

June 7, 2026

Phil Craig

The CIAG has written an open letter to President Trump requesting US support for a Western Cape referendum on self-determination as a lasting alternative to Afrikaner refugee status.

May 21, 2026

Phil Craig

When is the right to self-determination satisfied in a constitutional democracy? What are the implications for South Africa?

May 4, 2026

Phil Craig

The CIAG argues that in its Bill to repeal s235, MK have fundamentally misunderstood the nature and legal status of the right so self-determination.

April 23, 2026

CIAG Team

PRESS RELEASE: Repeal s235 or operationalise it? CIAG and MK have met to discuss their differences on self-determination and agreed to debate them publicly

April 23, 2026

Phil Craig

PRESS RELEASE: City of Cape Town quietly removes its claims that "lower rates are coming to Cape Town" but fails to offer public correction - that higher rates are in fact coming to Cape Town

April 20, 2026

CIAG Team

South Africa's system of government is a root cause of the county's problem, s235 and self-determination is the solution. It won't be delivered by a top down two-thirds majority in parliament, but from the bottom up.

April 20, 2026

Phil Craig

PRESS RELEASE: CIAG congratulates Geordin Hill-Lewis on his election as the new DA leader and urges him to to pursue federalist policies much more vigorously than has been the case up until now

April 13, 2026

CIAG Team

The Referendum Party demands immediate action at Fisherhaven Academy and warns that illegal settlement expansion is driving a wider breakdown across the Western Cape.

April 1, 2026

Referendum Party

The Referendum Party's first community poll in Cape Town's Deep South demonstrates deep opposition to the city's relocation and housing plans.

April 1, 2026

Referendum Party

PRESS RELEASE: Government racism is not the solution to our past, says RP. Non-racialism Bill submitted to Parliament.

April 1, 2026

Referendum Party

OP-ED: DA strategist Ryan Coetzee says "We got the Titanic to sink more slowly" can't be the point of the GNU. RP's Phil Craig explains why the GNU can never be the solution for ideological minorities in South Africa.

April 1, 2026

Referendum Party

RP leader lays out the legal basis for his Cape Independence advocacy, challenges the conduct of his political opponents

April 1, 2026

Referendum Party

PRESS RELEASE

April 1, 2026

Referendum Party