About The UCS
Meet Our Visionaries
Dr Shawn Stewart
Dr. Shawn is a passionate humanitarian and environmentally focused Research & Development scientist with more than 28 years’ experience in the field of eradication of harmful bacteria, toxins and viruses from various substrates. He is an activist promoting non-toxic medication and therapy since 1998 and is also the inventor of two worldwide patents.
Dr. Shawn currently manages his own private practice in Johannesburg and has established numerous clinics in both East and Southern Africa. He was Chairman of Resthaven Ministries, a charity caring for HIV orphanage, a drop off baby shelter for abandoned infants and 2 old age homes.
Dr Shawn became involved with the self-determination and secession process by joining the civil rights organisation of the United Liberty Alliance (ULA) in June 2020, and moved into the ranks of the ULA’s executive committee in October 2020. Realizing that the support for self- determination required a broad-based all-inclusive approach within the legal international process of secession, Dr Shawn co-founded the United Cape States (UCS) in February 2022.
With his enthusiastic nature and aptitude for leadership, Dr Shawn was able to obtain signed allegiance to the United Cape States Transitional Authority (UCS-TA) from the leadership of various Royalty’s from the indigenous Khoi, San and Nama nations and several groups from the Afrikaners and the Boers. During the relative short period since 2022, Dr Shawn undertook to interrupt his professional career to focus on garnering expansive support for the process of liberation, two African tribal Kings have also declared an alliance with the UCS, agreeing with idea of self-determination through the process of international legal secession.
In May 2023 he invited Elroy Baron and Patrick Melly to form an interim Presidium (Presidential Council), designated to spearhead the United Cape States Transitional Authority towards self-determination and independence of the Capelanders.
Elroy Baron
Elroy Baron is an accomplished political and Khoi Leader, filling various positions that perfectly aligns with the UCS’ liberation of the Capelander people. He was appointed as president of the United Liberty Alliance (ULA) in February 2023, stepping up from the position of vice president.
Elroy joined the Khoi indigenous movements in 1999 and became the Western Cape leader of CONFILSA (Congress for first Indigenous Leaders South Africa) in 2013. Additionally, is the leader of the Eden Aboriginal Council (EAC) and was elected Chief of the Gouriqua tribe since 2007, and he tirelessly works towards ensuring a prosperous future for the indigenous tribes. Elroy currently also serves as councillor of the Mossel Bay municipality.
His tenure as Correctional official started in 1986 and culminated in his appointment as Head of Correctional Centre in 1997 in Oudtshoorn, Western Cape. Affirmative Action and the detrimental effect it has on his community, prompted him to resign and focus on pursuing goals towards solving the challenges his communities face due to marginalization.
As a member of the United Cape States Presidium Elroy can fulfil his vision of a free and fair Capeland for all its citizens by being a frontrunner in the drive towards self-determination and sovereign independence.
Patrick Melly
Patrick Melly, a long-time resident of Cape Town, has held executive positions for several international companies, was self-employed as consultant from 1984 and also had two successful businesses until 2018 when he retired.
He has always been a staunch supporter of Cape Independence since 1994, and most probably was also the first person to openly promote Cape Independence during an interview by the SABC in 1996. He also registered the Cape Independence Movement in 2010.
Patrick has valuable experience in the political environment, having been appointed as leader of the Conservative Party of the Western Cape, and serving on the Executive of the Freedom Front Plus after it merged with the Conservative Party in 2003.
Having left the political environment Patrick continues his involvement as activist in several civic organizations, a passion he holds since the 1980s. Among these is the Greater Cape Town Civic Alliance (GCTCA), an alliance of 200 ratepayers and other civic associations on whose executive committee he has held several positions.
More recently, he co-founded the “Citizens Action for Public Participation (CAPP)”, promoting greater public participation in decision making at local government level. This opened the opportunity to hold seminars and conferences with speakers from countries such as Italy, Spain and Guatamala.
Patrick holds degrees from UCT and Unisa, majoring in Business Administration, Economics, Political Science and International Relations.
Adding a wealth of knowledge, skills and experience to the team of the United Cape States Presidium Patrick plays a key role to ensure that the Capelander people’s best interests will remain of paramount priority throughout the process towards independence.
The UCS Advisory Council members are tasked to articulate the structure of the United Cape States Transitional Authority (UCS-TA) that will act as representative interim or emergency governing entity throughout the transition period to independence.
It is a well known fact that various organisations share a common desire to achieve legal, rightful self-determination and independence for the people they represent. We also understand that only through a united front comprised of all such like-minded organisations representing the Capelander people will rapid advancement to bring conclusion to a process of liberation be successful.
The United Cape States Transitional Authority (UCS-TA) was established in February 2022 to provide for a neutral, representative and unifying entity where the representative leadership from every organisation supporting legal selfdetermination in a sovereign independent country can now:
- adopt the documented legal de jure case for secession;
- form part of a representative transitional authority (interim or emergency governing entity);
- collectively and actively participate in the preparation for the new country, and
- garner support for our self-determination through registering of mandates to prove “the will of the people”
The UCS-TA therefore acts on authority of the various organisations, associations, groups, movements and independent individuals as a united front for self-determination and independence.
This united front will maintain control of the process to establish the world’s newest country The Cape (short for The United Cape States). The UCS-TA acts as the “stand in” or “emergency” government entity, as far as possible working closely with existing structures to ensure stability throughout the transition period.
The UCS-TA has a carefully crafted transition plan towards the establishment of a federal state, whilst fulfilling internationally accepted conditions for statehood and ensuring that the essential elements of overall liberty is never compromised.
What we all quickly learnt from this journey of unification is that all organisations seeking freedom and self-determination have a lot more in common uniting us all than those less important issues threatening to divide us!
“United we Stand, Divided we Fall” is perfectly relevant.
For the UCS-TA, acting as the voice of the people it will always be about a single objective – the liberation of Capelanders by applying the international legal secession process.
No measure of other influences will be allowed to impact on securing these inalienable rights, especially agendas where the people are left to blindly accept the ambiguous decisions made behind closed doors made by a few other so-called elites claiming to act in their best interests. As the UCS-TA we will not allow the people to be subjected to just another oppressive regime. For once, the governance of the new country must be for the people and through the people without compromise.
Spearheading the international legal de jure process on behalf of approximately 9 million Capelander souls, represented by the various organisations, groups and individuals collectively claiming self-determination in a new, sovereign independent country, currently referenced as The United Cape States (UCS), we are under obligation to uphold our golden thread of values being:
- Ensure that the God-given rights and common law principles will form an inalienable part of the liberation of the people.
- Excite representative participation from all organisations during the decision making processes.
- Consider, respect and protect the diverse characteristics of the groups of people representing the citizenry as future Capelanders.
- Reject all discrimination based on ethnicity, creed, language or culture.
- Root out all forms of evil corruption and fraud.
- Formulate the respective processes to reduce or eradicate crime, poor living standards, sub-standard education and health, homelessness and unemployment to ensure that the Capelanders will enjoy prosperity and equal opportunities.
- Remain transparent in all stages of the secession process.
- Disallow external local or global demoralising, degrading indoctrination or influences, or global control that threatens or impacts on the liberties of the Capelanders.
Self-determination can be achieved in two ways namely via internal or external process.
The organisations, groups and movements affiliated with the United Cape States Transitional Authority elected to adhere to the international process of secession, the “vehicle” to obtain self-determination and sovereign independence. With the international process we strictly remain bound by the clear expression referring to self-determination.
The right to self-determination and independence of a group or groups of people is above, and removed from the influence or interference by any party politics or ruling government.
Among various covenants, charters, conventions and treaties this is evident in Article 20(1) of the African (Banjul) Charter: “All peoples shall have the right to existence. They shall have the unquestionable and inalienable right to self-determination. They shall freely determine their political status and shall pursue their economic and social development according to the policy they have freely chosen..”
- As such we are vastly different in our approach and focus , and this is embedded in our supporting principles.
- The primary objective of the UCS-TA is and always will remain to free the Capelander people from the bondage of political and global agendas that directly negatively impact on their human rights.
- We ensure that no external powers will influence or interfere with the will of the people, whether local or global, and of political or any other origin.
- We ensure that no external powers will influence or interfere with the will of the people, whether local or global, and of political or any other origin.
- As excplicitly outlined in international law, the UCS focuses laser-like on liberation of THE PEOPLE (the Who), where the territory (the Where) is determined as the secondary element according to the proven historical connection of the people to such territory (the Cape).
- The will of the people shall firstly form the unconditional foundation of their rights and their liberties that will determine their quality of life as future citizens of the Cape. Any party politics will have to be aligned to embrace these rights and liberties.
- We ensure that all legislation and regulation applied to effectively govern the United Cape States across all its departments and divisions will embrace our people’s God-given rights under inalienable common law and natural law principles.
- The people shall govern, and this is not mere lip service but assurance that once stability is achieved the people themselves will by democratic election processes determine their government leadership at municipal, state and central government levels AND will retain the inalienable right to veto laws impacting on their liberties.
Read or download the comprehensive document of the why, who, where, how and when of the Cape will claim independence.