Hellen Zille's abdication as leader of the national caucus of the Democratic Alliance can only be interpreted as recognition that South Africa is a lost cause for white liberalism.

The DA election campaign launch in Soweto (and not the Cape) earlier this year has obviously failed to produce any return on investment , the DA rebuffed are now in outright retreat, positing whatever future they believe themselves to have in precisely the place they snubbed. For whatever strategic reasons the DA are angling at, most likely an attempt to sell the successful governance of the City of Cape Town, the inescapable fact is that even with a landslide electoral victory in the Western Cape, nothing will change. The unitary nature of the South African system implies that we would continue paying taxes into the SA system, continue abiding by national legislation, continue being subjected to race based policies like BEE that would override any contrary position that the people of the Cape wished for.

As a follow up on a blog posted in December, here's further news on the Cape Party.

I learned last weekend of a fledgling Political Party called the Cape Party (www.capeparty.com - this is just for reference as the site is under consruction).