Multi-Party Charter snubs Referendum Party as 'devisive'

JOHANNESBURG - The political party pushing for Western Cape independence from South Africa has failed in its bid to join the Multi-Party Charter (MPC).

The Referendum Party made an application to join the charter as its 12th member, saying it wants to protect Western Cape residents from an African National Congress (ANC)-Economic Freedom Fighters government.

The MPC, formerly known as the moonshot pact, is a group of like-minded opposition parties that aim to wrestle government control from the ANC after the elections.

ActionSA national chairperson Michaeal Beaumont said his party would rather quit the charter than be associated with a divisive movement like Cape Independence.

“The notion of the Western Cape seceding from the Republic of South Africa is constitutionally offensive, exclusionary, and based on the absurd notion that the Western Cape is economically, historically or socially distinct from the rest of South Africa.”