Regular readers will remember last year’s infamous Cape Party want to turn the Cape into France Shock! post, in which I suggested that, shockingly, the Cape Party wanted to turn the Cape into France and which was revived recently by commenter Lourens Camphor’s fantastic PERHAPS YOU ARE A BABY!!! allegation:
Check the party emblem and compare the shape of the new Cape Republic to… France:
OK, Normandy is a bit out of proportion, but that Southern coast looks dangerously familiar.
It was because of this concerning similarity that I looked into the Cape Party in greater detail. And look what I found as the very first line in their Vision for The Cape Republic:
The Cape Republic is roughly the size of France
Oh – isn’t that convenient???
So we look like France and we’re about the same size as France. Now all that is needed is an hatred of the British because you once lost a war to them.
The selfish motives of politicians a political system that is as racially divisive and oppressive as the others that have plagued this land since the British Empire forced the Union of South Africa upon us in 1910…
Bingo.
Further evidence: constant references to Cape Provence and suggested adoption of the Swiss system of voting – a country where they speak French and which borders France. In addition, the Cape Party headquarters is in Franschhoek. Need I say more, except for informing you that I actually made this last bit up – they’re actually based in Claremont. Which sounds very much like Clermont-Ferrand, which is in France.
The Cape Party’s performance in last year’s municipal elections was undeniably dreadful, gathering, as they did, a whole 0.09% of the vote in the Western Cape. And thus, we thought (Lourens aside) that this issue was over and done with.
Not so, it seems, because Cape Town’s Llandudno beach has now been annexed. BY THE FRENCH!!!
Yes, in what is described by Steve Turton, Managing Director of UK-based The Line Agency as:
a genuine, absolute mistake
it seems that photos of Llandudno beach, a short sprint down the Atlantic Seaboard from Cape Town CBD, are being used to advertise holidays in Normandy. WHICH IS IN FRANCE!!!
This error was spotted by eagle-eyed (you’ll see what I did there) ex-Capetonian, Bradford Bird.
Billboards displayed in London Underground stations advertising cheap travel to the French north coast have left a UK creative agency red-faced when it was discovered the beach pictured, was actually Llandudno in Cape Town.
The billboard poster produced for the French tourism authority, Atout France, shows a family running along a beach under the headline ‘Sprint finish on the Northern France Coast’.
The distinctive rocks on the spur of land in the background, however, unequivocally identify the beach as Llandudno.
The faux-pas was spotted by former Llandudno local, Bradford Bird, who now works in London as a photographer.
Genuine, absolute mistake, my arse. Sure, there is granite in both areas and both contain a phat amount of silica – durr! it’s granite!! – but in Normandy it’s Barfleur granite, with limited quantities of Rubidium, Strontium, Caesium and Barium. And as Graindor and Wasserburg highlighted in 1962, it’s only around 330 million years old. Cape granite, like that in the photograph, regularly demonstrates magmatic crystallization ages of over 500 million years.
Do you take us for idiots, Steve?
Also, am I really the only one who, when rearranging the letters of “Steve Turton” gets “The Cape Party” (or something ever so slightly similar, anyway)? This is merely the start of a heinous plan by the defeated hoard of Cape Party supporters (both of them) in carrying out their party’s wishes without due democratic process. Just wait until images of Stellenbosch are passed off as the Rhone Valley, Mossel Bay as Calais and that funny little bit of scaffolding on top of the MetLife Centre as the Eiffel Tower.
We are on a slippery slope.
I will utilise this blog post to serve as a record of any further attempts at franco-colonisation of the Western Cape. Please point out any sudden and/or concerning similarities between these two completely separate geographical areas in the comments section below.
Vive le différence! (as they say in Mitchell’s Plain).
Another obvious parallel is that both the French and the cape residents have funny foreign accents.
Are you on something? Honestly, I can’t comprehend how anyone can write this drivel in all seriousness. I severely hope, for your sake, that you are joking, as these are definitely signs of a mental disorder or just plain stupidity.
How can you write this? You obviously know NOTHING about the Cape party or what they want to achieve..
Walter > I used a laptop computer, but that’s not important right now.
Walter, don’t forget what I aid to you last time you came on here:
Shhhh! No-one is listening… http://6000.co.za/shhhh/
I think you are underestimatin support for Cape Independence – lot of people I know are very pro- Cape autonomy in one form or another..
Walter > Thanks for the timeous reply. I too was busy during those two intervening months.
Yes. We’ve established that a HUGE 0.09% of voters in the Western Cape want Cape autonomy.
I’m therefore guessing that the “lot of people” you mention are among those 1497.
Actually in the last election they got over 3500 votes..
Remember: no one knew about them – The media deliberately gave them no exposure whatsoever and funding was tight.. Id argue that there are many people here who would favor Independence or at least Federal statehood, especially now given these ANC fuelled riots..
Walter > Yes, quite. Remind us again what you are going to do with all those pesky ANC supporters when you sweep to power and independence next year?
P.S. Nice with the whole conspiracy theory over the media thing. That might recruit a few more loonies to your cause.
Remind me again, where in England are you from?
Walter > Sheffield. But hey, don’t go alienating your potential voters now, Walter. (That’s me, by the way.) *waves*
What is so terrible about wanting a bit of cultural civilisation? I go along wth Sunette Bridge’s view as published recently in Die Vryburger (internet: info@vvk.co.za). We are a RAINBOW nation after all – a nation with eleven acknowledged different cultures and ethnic languages and at least three main races! Did our President, Mr. Zuma also not recently ask the ‘blacks’ (negroid), please to be just themselves and to be proud of their looks and their culture? Do the colours (cultures), of the rainbow ever change? No, but they do touch to form the bow as one…. And have the Zulu people (Nguni), not a trust that owns 2.7 million hectare in Kwa-Zulu Natal, just for the Zulu people ? So, as President Zuma said when questioned about Nkandla, ‘ go and build/form your own Nkandla!’. Therefore, bleaters, give one another space to do just that. After all, there are another TEN tribes who are entitled to do the same! Volkstater, Pietafew. (Not for Publication: PFEWienand : Box 11473,Aston Manor 1630 :082 500 6513)