Government has discouraged residents of Kleinfontein from lobbying to declare the area as independent.
Government on Wednesday said such acts were the main causes of a divided South Africa.
This comes after media reports have indicated that the community of Kleinfontein in Gauteng vow that only Afrikaners will live in the area.
Acting Government Communication and Information System (GCIS) CEO Phumla Williams expressed shock and dismay that in this day and age, there were still South African citizens who did not want to integrate into a democratic South Africa.
“This disintegration is extremely disappointing as it perpetuates the ills of the apartheid era,” Williams said.
Noting that the country had made significant progress in uniting citizens and breaking the racial barriers that epitomised the ‘old’ disjointed South Africa, Williams said all South Africans were governed by a Constitution that catered for all who live in the country, regardless of race and religion.
“It should be noted that the Kleinfontein community benefits from the services provided for by the government and we strongly discourage them from lobbying for the town to be declared independent from the Tshwane Municipality, as this will be contrary to the Constitution of this country,” Williams said
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” I have further frightening news for you, and that is the ”Western Cape Province” public are also thinking about going independent, for logical reasons, and for the failure at government level to grant or to implement ”Federalism”, which works as one can see in countries like Switzerland, which has the Canton System, United States of America, Australia and Germany. Under the ”United Nations Charter”, we see since 1991, small states like the Republic of Georgia(formerely part of the U.S.S.R.) independent,Moldova is another, the northern part of Spain is another, soon to receive independence(Catalan), and Scotland who are to hold a referendum on this issue in 2014. They have the fullest democratic right to do so, and this is what the government fears most. The people in the Cape are not the same way inclined as the people in Gauteng for instance, where traditional life differs, as well as attitudes, and whose homeland has never been part of the Eastern Cape Province and lesser than that the Zulus or Sothos of this country, or any other ethnic group, where the law of the country is applicable to one part of the country, and does not in the other parts. Under Federalism one is entitled to one’s own Parliament, where there problematic matters can be discussed and rectified or adjusted accordingly . The people of the area are more directly involved in such as system, without outsiders dictating on unacceptable terms, and implementing their own personal opinions, upon others enforcing legislation on them. Let the people decide from their chosen communities what is in their best interest, in the own area of the country. In other countries it works perfectly, why not in South Africa, with 12 official languages, which can be minimised according to Federal State needs, within the areas concerned. Thank you!