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As it was with Sharpeville, So it is in Gaza strip today Afro Voice
On March 21, 1960, what today in South Africa is known as Human Rights Day, the Apartheid police massacred 69 people injuring over 180 in a peaceful protest against Apartheid pass laws (which required black South Africans to carry passbooks with them any time they traveled out of their designated home areas), including women, children…
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Fewer symbolic gestures and more action is needed for Palestine
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;…
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Op-Ed: OR Tambo stood in solidarity with the Palestinian people
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…
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Hamas Supports Downgrading of South Africa’s Embassy in Israel
Hamas issued the following press release: The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas – expresses its best wishes to the African National Congress as it prepares for its 54th National Conference. We understand that this conference, like all conferences of the party, is critically important for the ANC, and for South Africa. For Palestinians, this conference…
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Morocco and Israel pose dilemma for ANC
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…
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ANC conference, Foreign Relations Dept: Issues of Israel and Morocco to heat up the debate
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…
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South African churches call for mass prayer in protest at Israeli violations
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…
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Downgrade of SA Embassy in Israel a step in the right direction
Palestinians participate in a protest against U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, near Damascus Gate of Jerusalem’s Old City. File picture: Muammar Awad/Xinhua As a Christian I am angry. I am angry that Donald Trump, Israel and its lobby use my religion to conflate, confuse and complicate the issue of Israel and Palestine. This…
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Religious leaders march on parliament over Trump’s Jerusalem move
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…
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ANC poll finds 75% support for downgrade of SA Embassy in Israel
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…
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Icon Leila Khaled writes to ANC on behalf of PFLP supporting downgrade of SA Embassy in Israel
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…
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Palestinian Christians write to ANC in Support of Downgrade Embassy in Tel Aviv
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…
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South African Parliament shuns Israeli delegation
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 that also resolved to reject the Israeli invite (click here). Various organizations, human…
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SA PARLIAMENT STANDS BY PALESTINIAN PEOPLE – STATEMENT BY MANDLA MANDELA (MP)
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 Madiba’s commitment to stand by the Palestinian cause until Palestine is free. We…
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VIDEO FROM THE ARCHIVES: NELSON MANDELA SPEAKING ON PALESTINE
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 Koppel of ABC Networks. The interview focuses on, among other…