PRESS RELEASE: CIAG Welcomes US Action Against Race-Based Discrimination
The Cape Independence Advocacy Group (CIAG) welcomes the decision by the United States Government to introduce visa restrictions targeting foreign nationals responsible for implementing race-based discrimination, uncompensated land seizures, or the incitement of imminent racial violence in South Africa.
The CIAG has consistently opposed the South African Government’s continued use of racial classification and race-based policy. The South African Institute of Race Relations’ Index of Race Law currently identifies 145 Acts of Parliament which are operative and which make race legally relevant in their application.
CIAG spokesperson Phil Craig said:
“South Africa’s constitutional pact was premised upon the end of racial discrimination and non-racialism is one of its founding values. That pact has been broken by a government who has implemented race-based classifications every bit as enthusiastically as the Apartheid government which preceded it. International pressure played a pivotal role in ending Apartheid. Regretfully, that may also be what is needed to bring the current shameful chapter of racial discrimination to end."
In 2025, a CIAG delegation spent more than a month in the United States, where it met representatives of the US administration, think tanks, and other policy figures to discuss Cape Independence, minority rights, and South Africa’s political trajectory.
The CIAG remains committed to a non-racial future in which the people of the Western Cape can determine their own political and economic destiny free from racial discrimination.
