In the past year, we have managed to make a small but substantial mark, with 123 000 readers over the past year. We have managed to stir the pot a fair few times regarding local government corruption, and drawn attention to some of the decline in accountability and responsible government in our province. But there is a long way to go before we reach our potential.

Our goal is to be an independent source of news for the Cape of Good Hope. Our local legacy papers are almost entirely bought out by the progressive-liberal Naspers, and the ANC-aligned IOL under Iqbal Survé. Our most prestigious investigative outfits are also left-wing, backed by a combination of Western NGOs with shady links to foreign states, and an aggressively partisan sentiment.

When we started a year ago, the Cape independence movement was struggling to get media attention, and we saw this as patently unfair. The CIAG had just released a major poll, by the most respectable and accurate polling company in the country, demonstrating broad support for the idea, and while the DA had been scrambling behind the scenes to contain the sentiment by offering them deliberately neutered devolution policies, the airwaves were conspicuously silent.

Of course, the vast majority of secessionists were still DA voters, and so when push came to shove, most stuck with the devil they knew, out of desperation to prevent the destructive radical policies on offer on this year's ballot. The movement took a substantial hit.

But we are more than a vehicle for Cape independence, and have supported the self-determination efforts of the Solidariteit and Orania movements, as well as the nascent calls for increased Zulu autonomy. We have supported Christian morality, local heritage preservation, natural conservation, federalism, economic libertarianism, gun rights, and financial decentralisation. We have railed against the substitution of industry for tourism, against leniency to land invasions and other criminal activities, and have persistently been a right-flank gadfly, pressing for more aggressive stances against socialist and black-nationalist politics.

We see less popular and less sensible ideas achieve mainstream attention all the time, but the media in this country is staffed by people selected for their ability to fit into an existing class-culture, one which is largely globalist, politically correct, and hostile to radical (or even common sense) solutions to our crumbing society. Only the Afrikaans-language media bucks this trend by providing a modicum of balance. But even these outlets aim for a balanced, centrist perspective, which they largely achieve. We do not.

While objectivity and truth remain vital for any source of news or information, neither truth nor objectivity are guaranteed by taking the average opinion of a crowd, much less a nation as gripped by prejudice and division as South Africa. Any honest source of news or analysis will wear its agenda on its sleeve, as we do. We stand for self-determination of all peoples who live under this Union, whether that means secession or not. But first and foremost, we stand for the interests of the people of the Cape, and consequently report on issues which will affect them.

Going into the next year, we will be scaling up output, and so we call on you, if you are a writer, to submit your writing, if you are a reader, to lend us your eyes, and if you have any spare cash, to drop us a line here.

Here’s to growth.

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