Action SA calls for the expulsion of Phil Craig in SA
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Action SA Member of Parliament Lerato Ngobeni has written a letter to Home Affairs minister Leon Schreiber to request him to reject citizenship request from a certain British individual, Philip Craig who have been a thorn in South Africa.
Craig who is technically a visitor in this country is the leader of the Western Cape Province secession movement, known as the Cape Independence Advocacy Group.
The has been calling for the Western Cape to separated from the Republic of South Africa and be an independent country on its own. He has allegedly gone as far as writing to the USA to help him succeed in this attempt to see the province not being part of this country.
In her letter on behalf of ActionSA, Ngobeni cited the South African Citizenship Act of 1995, which grants the Minister discretionary powers under Section 5 to approve or reject a foreigner’s citizenship application on various grounds. Section (1)(d) of the Citizenship Act requires that a citizenship applicant be a person of good character, and Section (1)(e) states that the citizenship applicant must intend to reside in the Republic.
“We ask, how does Mr Craig intend to reside in the Republic of South Africa while he calls for it to be split? Assuming that his real intention is to eventually reside in an imagined, future Republic of The Western Cape, perhaps that is where he should wait to apply for citizenship, and not in our Republic of South Africa, whose physical integrity he clearly has no intention to respect and protect?”
“Fellow South Africans, you will agree with me that our country has its own myriads of challenges, some of which end-up fuelling seemingly intractable inter-group disputes on a basket of historically inherited differences. We have enough on our plate, as a diverse nation, but none of the challenges we face are insurmountable. I believe that together, we shall eventually find solutions.”
“Ngobeni added that the country is already going through a lot as is with politics of the past and present as well as racial tensions that surface every now and then and welcoming a person like Phil Craig will a further downward of our country with its problems.
“We might have our internal differences, but we always unite when we face threats from outside. We cannot afford to sit by and watch outsiders coming here to exploit our differences for treasonous intents.”
“Phil Craig must go!”
