The Cape Party has now changed their name and are planning on contesting the local government elections as the Cape Independence Party.
When announcing the launch and name change, party leader Jack Miller said that the push for an independent state in the Western Cape has gained increasing support from South Africans. He said that: “Cape independence is now an inevitability which more and more people are accepting as the only solution to perennial ANC rule.”
Miller also said that the democratic will of the people of the Western Cape can never be served by being part of South Africa. Miller said that:“The Western Cape is fundamentally at odds with the eight other provinces. And no matter how often the people of the Western Cape vote to keep the ANC out, we can never get the result we want. Cape Independence is and has been our signature issue for over a decade and its fitting that our name should easily convey our number one priority.”
A poll was conducted by Victory Research in July 2021 on behalf of the Cape Independence Party, the poll showed that a clear majority of the voters in the province (58%) now support a referendum on Cape Independence being held. Support for independence itself is now at 46.2% of all registered voters (with 49.6% opposing and 4.2% undecided) and 42% among all adults in the province when unregistered voters are included. Support among voters has increased with 12.2% over the past year.
