11 September 2017 The human rights and Palestine solidarity organization, BDS South Africa, welcomes the calling-off of the Africa-Israel Summit which was meant to take place in Togo next month. The decision comes following several boycott threats. (Click here) This is welcome as good news by huma
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This article was originally published in The Daily Maverick  on the 30th  of August 2017 As we end Women’s month, the struggle continues, and internationally so! Our struggle for a democratic, non-racist, non-sexist, prosperous, and free society has been one that required leaders of great resil
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This article was originally published in The Star newspaper on the 24 th  August 2017 By all accounts the recent trip to South Africa by a delegation of Israeli parliamentarians was an utter failure. The group sought to downplay its regime’s crimes and increasing isolation, but, instead, the main
read moreMessages of support have flowed in for the position taken by the Parliament of South Africa in rejecting a visiting Israeli delegation. Fateh, a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and sister-party to South Africa’s governing ANC, has written to the SA Parliament saying: R
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SAJFP MEDIA STATEMENT South African Jews welcome Parliament’s rejection of Israeli invite (10 August 2017) We, as Jewish South Africans, warmly welcome the decision by the Parliament of South Africa to shun a visiting Israeli delegation to the country. We join the chorus of South Africa
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SOUTH AFRICAN PARLIAMENT SHUNS ISRAELI DELEGATION 07 August 2017 The human rights and Palestine solidarity organization BDS South Africa welcomes the South African Parliament’s shunning of a visiting Israeli delegation (click here). The decision has been supported by the ANC parliamentary caucus t
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SOUTH AFRICAN PARLIAMENT STANDS BY THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE – STATEMENT BY MANDLA MANDELA (MP) – Israeli delegation invite rejected We applaud Parliament’s decision to reject the invitation for the Israeli parliamentary delegation to visit. In so doing parliament has stayed true to M
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Below find the speech by Chief Zwelivelile Mandla Mandela, the grandson of South African icon Nelson Mandela, which he delivered at today’s over 5000 person Palestine solidarity protest in Cape Town. The protest, organized by the MJC and others, was against Israel’s siege on the Al-Aqsa Mosq
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PRESS ALERT Rallies in South Africa against Israeli violence at Aqsa Mosque in Palestine 26 July 2017 Later today and in this week protest actions are being rolled out in Cape Town, Johannesburg and other South African cities against Israel’s siege on the Al-Aqsa Mosque and recent restriction onÂ
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This week as we marked the UN International #MandelaDay on 18 July we were also reminded of Madiba’s unflinching support for the Palestinian struggle against, in his words, Israeli “colonialism“. In 1990 Mandela participated in a town hall meeting in New York City, chaired by Ted Koppe
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