by Joan Swart | Nov 13, 2025 | Uncategorized
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana’s Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement, delivered yesterday, confirms what communities across the Western Cape experience daily: national government remains focused on balancing spreadsheets rather than rebuilding a collapsing economy....
by Joan Swart | Oct 25, 2025 | Uncategorized
Executive Summary The Western Cape, a province of approximately 7.2 million people with a peak electricity demand of 4,000 MW, seeks to establish an independent electricity grid to address South Africa’s unreliable national supply managed by Eskom. This white paper...
by Joan Swart | Oct 25, 2025 | Economy, Energy & Electricity
Executive Summary An independent Western Cape has the potential to achieve energy independence from South Africa in oil and gas, leveraging offshore discoveries like Brulpadda and Luiperd, potential shale gas in the Karoo, and strategic infrastructure such as the...
by Joan Swart | Oct 25, 2025 | Devolution, Policing, Referendum
For over a decade, the Democratic Alliance (DA) has pleaded with Pretoria for devolved policing powers, only to be stonewalled by the African National Congress (ANC)’s obsession with centralized control. The Western Cape, cursed with the world’s highest violent crime...
by Joan Swart | Oct 23, 2025 | Decentralization, Governance
* Oorspronklik gepubliseer in Afrikaans deur Maroela Media South Africa’s post-1994 state model was built on good intentions — national unity, shared resources, and the goal of equal opportunity for all. But after three decades of growing bureaucracy and central...
