FULL SCHEDULE OF UPCOMING PROTESTS ACROSS SOUTH AFRICA
Its time to send a clear message to Israel that its violations of international law and what it is doing to the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip as well as elsewhere is unacceptable. Its time to #ExpelIsraeliAmbassador. Play your part by communicating this to all structures of government – councilors, mayors, premiers, ministers and all other officials because our government, on this issue and on the call for the expulsion of the Israeli Ambassador, has the support from virtually the entirety of South African civil society. Join us at the upcoming protest actions, join us online or organize your own events. List of upcoming #GazaUnderAttack events protest actions taking place across South Africa include:
FULL SOUTH AFRICAN SPEAKING SCHEDULE FOR ILAN PAPPE
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STELLENBOSCH
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DATE: Thursday, 31 July at 17h30 for 18h00
VENUE: Rm 222, 2nd Floor, Arts Building, Corner Merriman & Ryneveldt Street, Stellenbosch
TOPIC: “Courageous Jewish Voices on Israel/Palestine – Deconstructing Myths and Truths About the Land of Israel, Palestine and Gaza”
CONTACT: 0832907742
HOSTS: Kairos Christian Ecumenical Organization, Stellenbosch PSF
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CAPE TOWN
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DATE: Friday 01 August, at 13:30
TOPIC: Jumuah Talk on “Whether Israel is an Apartheid State?”
VENUE: Masjidul Quds Mosque, Gatesville, Cape Town
CONTACT: 0827052223
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DATE: Friday 01 August, at 18:00 for 18:30
VENUE: Community House, Salt River Road, Salt River, Cape Town
TOPIC: “The Myths of Zionism and Israel”
CONTACT: 0828702025
HOSTS: Cape Town Palestine Solidarity Campaign
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DATE: Saturday, 02 August at 20:00
Live Debate on iTV to be broadcast on DSTV Channel 347
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DATE: Sunday, 03 August at 15h00
MASS MEETING: Islamia College Hall, 409 Imam Haron Road, Lansdowne, Cape Town
TOPIC: “Brand Israel: How Zionism was Marketed Over the Years”
CONTACT: 0827052223
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DATE: Monday, 04 August at 13h00
VENUE: L20, Old Arts Building, University of Western Cape, Cape Town
TOPiC: “The Israeli Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine: The Past and the Present”
HOSTS: University of Western Cape PSA
CONTACT: 0729192751
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DATE: Monday, 04 August at 18h00
VENUE: Kramer Lecture Theatre 1, University of Cape Town, Cape Town
TOPIC: “The False Paradigm of Peace: One-State or Two-States Solution For Palestine-Israel”
HOSTS: University of Cape Town PSF
CONTACT: 0820619674
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PIETERMARTIZBURG
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DATE: Tuesday, 05 August at 13h00
VENUE: Room 107, New Arts Bldg, Golf Road, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermartizburg
TOPIC: “Israel and the Arab Spring”
HOSTS:
CONTACT: 0824231348
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DURBAN
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DATE: Tuesday, 05 August at 18h30
VENUE: Howard College Auditorium, University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), Durban
TOPIC: “The Forgotten Palestinians: the Palestinian minority inside Israel
CONTACT: 0837864918
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JOHANNESBURG
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DATE: Wednesday, 06 August at 18:30 for 19h00
VENUE: 201 Block K Great Hall ,Bunting Road Campus (off Annet Road), University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park, Johannesburg
TOPIC: “Academic freedom in higher education: Apartheid South Africa and current day Israel as case studies, with a particular focus on the academic boycott”
CONTACT: 0842119988
HOSTS: BDS South Africa with the UJ PSF
SPECIAL GUEST: Blade Nzimande, Minister of Higher Education and General Secretary of SACP
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DATE: Thursday, 07 August at 13h00
CONTACT: 0715028674
VENUE: Umthobo 10, East Campus, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg
HOST:
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DATE: Thursday, 07 August at 15h00
TOPIC: “Gaza in Context – The Continued Israel Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine”
VENUE: Origin Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg
CONTACT: (082) 6524844
HOST: StopTheJNF and signatories of “SA Jews Against Israeli Attacks on Gaza”
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JOHANNESBURG
WEDNESDAY, 30 JULY AT 18H30
Topic: “Religions and Peace in an Age of Occupation and Empire: Veterans of the South African Struggle for Liberation Speak”
Hosts: Palestine Solidarity Forum
Address: Council Chambers, Madibeng, A Ring, Auckland Park Campus, University of Johannesburg (Aukland Park)
Speakers: Reverend Frank Chikane (Former Secretary General of the South African Council of Churches and currently Head of the World Council of Apostolic Faith Missions); Yasmine Sooka (Former President of the SA World Conference on Religion & Peace and currently Director of the SA Human Rights Foundation); Professor Steven Friedman (Former Leading Trade Unionist and currently Director, Center for the Study of Democracy at UJ); Professor Farid Esack (Former Leader in the United Democratic Front and Head, Department of Religion Studies at UJ)
Hosts: UJ PSF
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MANDENI
SATURDAY,2 AUGUST STARTING AT 11HOO
Action: Mass Meeting
Address: Mandeni ,Tugela Hall
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BENONI
WEDNESDAY, 30 JULY AT 19H00
Action: Mass meeting
Address: Bazme Adab Hall, Actonville, Benoni
Speakers: President of COSATU, Sidumo Dlamini; Campaigns Officer of BDS South Africa, Kwara Kekana and others
Contact: 0833650579
Hosts: PSA and BDS South Africa
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GABARONE (BOTSWANA)
THURSDAY, 13 AUGUST
Action: Panel Discussion
Contact: +2672256959
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BLOEMFONTEIN/ MANGAUNG
TUESDAY, 31 JULY AT 13H00
Action: Mini Rally
Address: University of Free State, Thakaneng Bridge Park West, Bloemfontein/Mangaung
Contact:0761858855
Host: South African Students Congress (SASCO)
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JOHANNESBURG
FRIDAY,1 AUGUST
City: Johannesburg
Action: Palestine Workshop
Address: 100 Jorrisen Street Braamfontein
Host: COSATU
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MAHIKENG
FRIDAY,1 AUGUST
Action: Protest march
Address: Molopo Street
Time: 13h30
Contact:0721463172
Host: Conveyors of Hope
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DURBAN
SATURDAY,2 AUGUST
Action: Palestine Solidarity Meeting
Address: Springfield Park
Meeting Time :10h00
Contact: 0840169432
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JOHANNESBURG
SATURDAY, 23 AUGUST AT 13H00-17H00
Action: Ladies Donation Drive
Address: Bedfordview Community Hall cnr Hawley and Nicol Road
Contact: 0846655443/0718842169/
Tickets: Noorul Muslimeen School
1 Woltemade Street, Dewetshof
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JOHANNESBURG
FRIDAY,16 AUGUST 09H00
Action: Workshop
Address: Linda Jabane District Office
Contact: 0785268663
Hosts: YCL Linda Jabane District
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DURBAN
FRIDAY,16 AUGUST 10H00
Action : Public Rally
Address: Durban City Hall
Hosts:
Contact:
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LENASIA
SATURDAY,9 AUGUST
Action : Protest
Address : Trade Route Mall
Hosts: Media Review Network
Contact :+27 11 852 7301
We implore all structures of our government to:
1. Immediately recall the South African Ambassador in Tel Aviv, as a form of diplomatic protest, particularly given the Israeli bombing over the weekend of the Palestinian NGO for Disabled people that killed two disabled people;
2) Immediately expel the Israeli Ambassador Arthur Lenk From South Africa as a form of diplomatic protest;
3) Heed Palestinian civil society’s — as well as Amnesty International’s — call for a full military embargo on Israel.
4) Implement the decisions of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) conference in Durban in 2006 to:
a. ban all products of Israeli companies operating in the occupied Palestinian territory, and
b. ban entry of Israeli settlers into South Africa
5) Hold South Africans who have enlisted in the Israeli occupation army accountable to legal prosecution, in accordance with South African laws.
6) Immediately act on the Gaza Docket currently lodged with the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) which names several South Africans who served in the previous Israeli massacre in Gaza in 2009.
7.1) Seventeen European Union countries have issued guidelines to their citizens, businesses and other entities including Germany, UK etc. warning against doing business with Israeli or international companies that have any sort of operations in the illegal Israeli settlements or the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Similar guidelines must be issues in South Africa. Its very embarrassing that SA is actually having to play catch up.www.haaretz.com/news/
7.2 Related to 7.1, all departments must implement the above guidelines so as to make sure that no contracts or tenders involved companies in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
7.3 Caterpillar should be excluded from all South African infrastructure and other projects due to its involvement in the construction of Israeli settlements and involvement in demolition of Palestinian homes. A local alternative is Bell Equipment
7.4 G4S should be excluded from from all South African government contracts due to its involvement in the illegal Israeli settlements, prisons aand detention centres. Security should either be in-housed and come back to the State or preference should be given to local black owned security companies.
8) Adopt ethical and international law guidelines that exclude international corporations complicit in Israeli violations of international law including Caterpillar, G4S, Veolia, among others, from public contracts.
9) Move away from the history of Apartheid South Africa’s cosy relations with Israel and immediately implement strict visa requirements for Israelis entering our country who must be investigated for their possible involvement in human rights abuses and war crimes including involvement in the Israeli Defense Force.
10) Commit to making local municipalities “Apartheid Israel Free Zones” by not signing any contracts for good or services with Israeli companies or companies involved in the Israeli occupation of Palestine;
11) Send a communiqué to all MPLs, councilors, municipal officials not to travel to Israel as per national policy
14) Finally, to affirm those brave Jewish South Africans who are standing up and refusing to allow Israel to conduct these Israeli strikes in their name. Those Jewish South Africans who refuse to allow the SA Jewish Board of Deputies or the South Africa Zionist Federation to speak in their name and who, instead, have also joined the BDS campaign and Palestinian solidarity movement in condemning the Israeli strikes on Gaza.
