Category: GOVERNMENT SANCTIONS

For the past 50 years, Israel’s occupation of Palestine and control of Palestinian lives in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem has, terrifyingly, become an accepted part of our international political landscape. So too, has the humiliating permit regime that controls every aspect of Palestinian life from cradle to grave; detention without trial; torture;…

Former president of the ANC, OR Tambo, was born on 27 October 100 years ago. In paying tribute to his leadership on behalf of Palestinians, Ambassador to South Africa HASHEM DAJANI, from the Embassy of the State of Palestine, calls for South Africa to downgrade its representation in Israel. It is with great humility and honour…

The decisions taken on international relations at this week’s ANC conference are important for the country, for as long as the ANC remains the ruling party, its foreign policy is supposed to be informed by the decisions taken by its branches at its national elective conference.If the ANC wins the 2019 elections, the decisions taken…

With a downgrade in relations with Israel on the cards, and questions about the exact status of relations between South Africa and Morocco, ANC branch activists fear their more radical voices on foreign policy could be drowned out by “chequebook diplomacy” and a raft of government deployees at the party’s upcoming conference at the Nasrec…

This weekend has been declared a “Weekend of Prayer” by several South African Churches in protest at Israel’s human rights violations. One of church leaders behind the initiative is Reverend Ntuthuko Nkosi.   “The Weekend Prayer will also keep in mind the delegates who will be attending next week’s African National Congress [ANC] conference,” explained…

Religious leaders from different faiths have called on Capetonians to march against US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital city. On Wednesday‚ the Christian‚ Muslim‚ Jewish and civil society leaders will lead a march to Parliament to call for the downgrading of South Africa’s embassy in Israel. inRead invented by Teads Trump…

11 December 2017   A poll carried out by South Africa’s governing party, the African National Congress (ANC), has found overwhelming (75%) support for the shut down of the SA Embassy in Israel.   The ANC online poll comes ahead of the ANC’s conference later this week where branches are to ratify a recommendation from…

Comrade Leila Khaled Amman, Jordan 10 August 2017 Comrade President Jacob Zuma 54 Pixley Seme Street Johannesburg 2001 Dear Comrade President Jacob Zuma, I wish to send my revolutionary greetings and gratitude to you for the ANC’s clear support to the people of Palestine. The party I belong to, the Popular Front for the Liberation…

08 December 2017 To the esteemed members of the African National Congress: On behalf of the Christian community in Palestine we send your conference warm and blessed advent greetings from the Palestinian town of Bethlehem – the town of Jesus, the birthplace of Christ. Us Palestinians have gravely suffered at the hands of our Israeli…