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A Crack in a 75-year-old Wall of Impunity: South Africa Challenges ‘Israeli’ Genocide in Court

6Jan

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Africa, Gaza, Holocaust, Human Rights, Palestine Affairs, South Africa, United Kingdom, USA, West Bank, ZIO-NAZI

A Crack in a 75-year-old Wall of Impunity: South Africa Challenges ‘Israeli’ Genocide in Court

South Africa’s painstakingly compiled genocide case against the Israeli government isn’t just an important legal document — it’s a rallying cry for civil society. By Craig Mokhiber and Phyllis Bennis Foreign Policy in Focus 1948 was a year of tragic irony. That year saw the adoption of both the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, together promising a world in which human rights would be protected by the rule of law. That same year, South Africa adopted apartheid and Israeli forces carried out the Nakba, the violent mass dispossession of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. Both systems relied on western colonial support. In short, the modern international human rights movement was born...

19Dec

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Africa, South Africa

Apartheid

Posted by: John Phoenix After its election victory in 1948, the National Party (some of whose leaders had been locked up as Nazi sympathisers during the Second World War), guided by the racist ideology of apartheid, built a state to entrench white supremacy. Through more than 40 pieces of legislation enacted by the whites-only Parliament, the majority of the country’s population were disenfranchised, forcibly evicted from their homes and from fertile land that they and their ancestors had cultivated for generations, and dumped in poor, bleak, rural surroundings or in townships to serve as a source of cheap labour. Apartheid began at birth, with each child registered on the basis of his or her race. Inter-racial marriage and sex were outlawed under the Prohibition of Mixed Ma...

South African envoy comments on Nazi-Hamas truce

27Nov

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Africa, Gaza, Holocaust, Human Rights, South Africa, West Bank, ZIO-NAZI

South African envoy comments on Nazi-Hamas truce

South African envoy comments on Israel-Hamas truce Pretoria acknowledged the pause in fighting but hopes "to see a permanent ceasefire" between the sides, Mzuvukile Maqetuka told RT Mzuvukile Maqetuka, South African Ambassador Extraordinaire Plenipotentiary © RT South Africa’s Ambassador to Russia Mzuvukile Maqetuka commented on the Israel-Hamas hostilities and Russia’s grain deliveries to Africa in an exclusive interview to RT on Monday. Speaking to RT during the Primakov Readings, an international forum in Moscow, Maqetuka said the ceasefire that has been agreed upon by Israel and Hamas "is a positive aspect" in the conflict, because it has resulted in a pause in the death of women and children on both sides. The foreign ministry of Qatar, which was r...

26Aug

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Africa, South Africa

Clashing Anniversaries in South Africa

BY RICHARD PITHOUSE On 20 August 2023 Abahlali baseMjondolo held an event at the eKhenana Commune in Durban to commemorate four of their comrades who were murdered last year. Photo: Zodwa Nsibande. In the 1980s millions of people were organised into militant trade unions and community organisations across South Africa. At the time it was argued that South Africa, along with Haiti and the Philippines, was one of the most mobilised countries on the planet. This year the anniversaries of two key moments in building this incoming tide of popular democratising power have been marked. The first was the fiftieth anniversary of the strikes in Durban which began on 9 January 1973 and opened the sequence of struggle that built a formidable trade union movement. Brought together in t...

Mischief-Making in Pretoria-Moscow-Washington Foreign and Trade Policies

10Jun

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Russia, South Africa

Mischief-Making in Pretoria-Moscow-Washington Foreign and Trade Policies

BY PATRICK BOND Photograph Source: Kremlin.ru – CC BY 4.0 Has the South African government unequivocally sided with Russia, as witnessed not just in February’s joint military exercises (alongside China) but also in allegedly selling weapons to Moscow late last year? Will the relationship prevent President Cyril Ramaphosa from having Vladimir Putin arrested at the Johannesburg summit, in late August, of the Brazil-Russia-India-China-Johannesburg bloc – as the International Criminal Court arrest warrant (for abuse of captured Ukrainian children) requires? And will any of these factors threaten the single largest component of South Africa’s export trade, the African Growth and Opportunity Act duty-free imports to the United States, worth several billion dollars last year alone...

24Aug

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Africa, South Africa

South Africa: the Politics of Death

BY RICHARD PITHOUSE Lindokuhle Mnguni speaking outside the home of Nokuthula Mabaso on the morning after she was assassinated, 6 May 2022. Photo: Richard Pithouse. Last week the tenth anniversary of the massacre of striking miners at Marikana was marked in South Africa. The televised state murder became one of the ruptures in the flow of time that generates a before and after in national consciousness. It took its place with the massacres by the apartheid state in Soweto in 1976 and Sharpeville in 1960. Of course, national consciousness is fractured by class, among other things. The insurgent strike at Marikana, and its repression, swiftly sparked a self-organized farm workers’ strike in the orchards and vineyards in the Western Cape, and a series of urban land occupations ac...

Nazi Regime offered to sell South Africa nuclear warheads

19Aug

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Africa, South Africa, ZIO-NAZI

Nazi Regime offered to sell South Africa nuclear warheads

Flashback: Israel offered to sell South Africa nuclear warheads CONTACT@IFAMERICANSKNEW.ORG (Guardian) British newspaper reveals documents from 1970’s allegedly recording a meeting in which Israel makes deal to sell nuclear weapons to apartheid regime. reposted from Ynet News, May 24, 2010 British newspaper the Guardian on Monday published secret South African documents reveled in a new book, according to which Israel allegedly offered to sell the apartheid regime nuclear warheads. The documents, if proven to be true, are the first official documents that prove Israel possess nuclear weapons. The papers allegedly document a meeting between senior officials of the two countries in 1975, in which South African Defense Minister PW Botha reque...

Why Africa Must Reject Nazi Colonialism ?

10Mar

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Africa, Human Rights, Palestine Affairs, South Africa, West Bank, ZIO-NAZI

Why Africa Must Reject Nazi Colonialism ?

Doing Business with Apartheid: Why Africa Must Reject Israeli Colonialism African Union summit in Addis Ababa. (Photo: via AfCFTA Secretariat Official Twitter Page) By Ramzy Baroud The current split in the African Union (AU) over Israel’s Observer membership status is emblematic of a larger conflict that could potentially split the African continent’s largest political institutions. Africa is currently facing one of its most crucial decisions regarding Palestine and Israel. The repercussions of this decision could be as significant as the 1975 Resolution 77 (XII) by the Organization of African Unity – the precursor to the African Union – which recognized Zionism, Israel’s founding ideology, as a form of racism. This time around, however, it is Palestine, not...

‘Major Breakthrough’: South African Scientists Replicate Moderna Vaccine

12Feb

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Africa, Health, South Africa

‘Major Breakthrough’: South African Scientists Replicate Moderna Vaccine

Employees at the Afrigen biotechnology company and Vaccine Hub facility work in the manufacturing laboratory in Cape Town, South Africa on October 5, 2021. (Photo: Rodger Bosch/AFP via Getty Images) "We didn't have help from the major Covid vaccine producers, so we did it ourselves," said Gerhardt Boukes, chief scientist at the South African company Afrigen. JAKE JOHNSON South African scientists have created a close replica of Moderna's mRNA-based coronavirus vaccine without any assistance from the U.S. pharmaceutical giant, a development that could have massive implications for the fight against global vaccine apartheid. "We were not intimidated, because mRNA synthesis is a fairly generic procedure." In partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO), re...

South Africa Says its Omicron Wave has Passed wth No Big Spike in Deaths

1Jan

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Africa, Health, South Africa

South Africa Says its Omicron Wave has Passed wth No Big Spike in Deaths

"It was a flash flood more than a wave." - Fareed Abdullah By Jim W. Dean, …from the New York Times [ Editor’s Note: This is good news in some respects, with the quick peaking and a greatly reduced death rate. My worry would be looking into the future, for instance, what could happen if Omicron’s lethality increases greatly, on top of its proven lightning infection rate? By the time the scientists had come up with a new vaccination, the world population would have been reduced way beyond what we have seen so far. New York City seemed to be happy with this South African news, as it is going ahead with the Times Square traditional New Year’s festivities, even though it has one of the toughest business vaccine mandates in the country. The grey beards are telling u...