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Petition Calls on Miss South Africa to Withdraw from Beauty Pageant in ‘Israel’

22Nov

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

Petition Calls on Miss South Africa to Withdraw from Beauty Pageant in ‘Israel’

Petition Calls on Miss South Africa to Withdraw from Beauty Pageant in Israel Lalela Mswane, Miss South Africa 2021. (Photo: video grab) By Palestine Chronicle Staff Human rights organization #Africa4Palestine launched a petition on Wednesday calling on South Africans to ask the CEO of Miss South Africa, Stephanie Weil, to withdraw the Miss South Africa organization from the competition, which is due to take place next month in Israel. According to a statement released by the organization, over 5000 South Africans endorsed the petition in less than 24 hours. The Daily Vox@thedailyvox[NEW] Miss South Africa organisers are facing increasing pressure to boycott the Miss Universe pageant in Israel. “The outpouring of support for Miss South Africa to no...

Yemeni armed forces shoot down another US-made Scan Eagle reconnaissance drone

11Nov

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South Africa, USA, Yemen

Yemeni armed forces shoot down another US-made Scan Eagle reconnaissance drone

Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem,Sr Press TV: Yemeni forces have intercepted and shot down another US-built Boeing Insitu ScanEagle spy drone belonging to the invading Saudi-led alliance amid the Saudi intensified spying flights over Yemen’s oil-producing province of Ma’rib, By VT Spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, said in a post published on his Twitter page on Saturday that Yemeni air defense units used a “suitable” domestically-developed surface-to-air missile to shoot down the American unmanned aerial vehicle as it was carrying out hostile acts over the al-Jubah district. He said further details about the operation and its footage will be released soon. تمكنت دفاعاتنا الجوية بفضل الله من إسقاط طائرة تجسسية نوع (سكان إيغل Scan Eagle) أمريكي...

South Korean general strike challenges inequality

7Nov

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South Africa

South Korean general strike challenges inequality

John Prysner Download PDF flyer Photo: Oct. 16 Los Angeles rally in solidarity with the South Korean general strike On Oct. 20, millions of workers across South Korea staged a general strike amid an intensifying battle for labor and social rights. Demonstrations organized by workers were viciously attacked by police seeking to repress the workers’ struggle. On Sept. 2, Yang Kyung-soo, the president of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions — South Korea’s largest umbrella organization of trade unions — was arrested for organizing a union rally in a pre-dawn raid by hundreds of police at the KCTU headquarters. He is the 13th president of the KCTU in a row to be jailed. His arrest came only a few hours after the government struck a deal and avoided a nationwide strike...

South Africa: COVID-19 Crisis Unmasks Dangers of Profit Oriented Healthcare

12May

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Africa, Health, South Africa

South Africa: COVID-19 Crisis Unmasks Dangers of Profit Oriented Healthcare

By Salimah Valiani The pandemic has shown the need for medical care and interventions that have nothing to do with profit. But not even SA’s proposed National Health Insurance would fit the bill. *** Covid-19 has been linked to a number of truth claims long made by activists in South Africa and around the world. Perhaps most glaring is the need for universal healthcare and fortified public healthcare. Following the mid-March announcements of measures to deal with the pandemic and the global financial crisis, researcher Sameer Dossani argued that while universal basic income and other income supports would help boost flagging economies, Covid-19 reveals universal healthcare as the most important need. More recently, researcher and writer David Hemson draws atte...

Cuban Doctors Head to South Africa to Help Fight COVID-19

6May

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Cuba, South Africa

Cuban Doctors Head to South Africa to Help Fight COVID-19

The group includes family physicians, epidemiologists, biostatists, health technology engineers, and biotechnology experts, among others. A new Cuban medical brigade is scheduled to arrive in South Africa on Sunday to join another group of Cuban colleagues, who are already working in the African country to reinforce the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. RELATED: Argentina Welcomes Cuban Medical Aid, Slams US Blockade In the framework of the solidarity cooperation offered by the island at the international level, the 24 specialized medical brigade of the Cuban internationalist contingent Henry Reeve, responded to a request from the South African government to ihelp them during this critical time. The group includes family physicians, epidemiologists, biostatist...

21Sep

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Human Rights, South Africa

S. African women: "My body is not your war zone,"

At #SandtonShutdown, South African Women Disrupt Business as Usual as Fury Over Gender-Based Violence Boils Over "My body is not your war zone," read one protest signs. by: Andrea Germanos Protesters march against gender-based violence, organised by several NGO?s and organisations at the JSE in Sandton on September 13, 2019 in Sandton, South Africa. There has been a public outcry after the rape and murder of UCT student Uyinene Mrwetyana in Cape Town. Several protests and marches have been held across the country to highlight the plight of women and children who are constantly fall victims of gender-based violence. (Photo: Alet Pretorius/Gallo Images via Getty Images) Thousands of protesters rallied outside the Johannesburg Stock Exchange Friday to protest staggering ...

7May

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South Africa

Back to Segregation? White-Only South African Town Denies Allegation of Racism

NOVANEWS South Africa's white-only town inhabitants deny allegations of racism. | Photo: Reuters A town called Eureka in the Northern Cape province of South Africa is built by white Afrikaans exclusively for themselves but they deny the move is racist. White South Africans have built a white-only town in the Northern Cape province. A white-only town is not racist according to the inhabitants. RELATED: South Africa: Ramaphosa Heading for Another Electoral Victory The town, called Eureka, is only for white Afrikaans speaking people who allege to be victims of racism. The place is built to protect and preserve the Afrikana culture, language, and way of life according to Okkert Swanpoel, one of the inhabitants of Eureka. “With affirmative action, it made it increasi...

20Apr

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Palestine Affairs, South Africa, ZIO-NAZI

I fought South African apartheid

NOVANEWS I fought South African apartheid. I see the same brutal policies in Israel Ronnie Kasrils I was shut down in South Africa for speaking out, and I’m disturbed that the same is happening to critics of Israel now • Ronnie Kasrils was a leading member of the African National Congress during the apartheid era and former government minister Wed 3 Apr 2019 10.00 BSTLast modified on Wed 3 Apr 2019 12.46 BST ‘Benjamin Netanyahu said recently: ‘Israel is not a state of all its citizens … Israel is the nation state of the Jewish people – and them alone.’ Photograph: Amir Levy/Getty Images As a Jewish South African anti-apartheid activist I look with horror on the far-right shift in Israel ahead of this month’s elections, and the impact in the Palestinian territories and world...

20Apr

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Palestine Affairs, South Africa, ZIO-NAZI

By Cutting Off Relations, South Africa Has Branded 'Israel' With the Mark of Cain

NOVANEWS Gideon Levy FILE PHOTO: A child takes part in a rally against the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories in Cape Town, South Africa, August 9, 2014.Schalk van Zuydam / AP South Africa recalls ambassador to Israel in wake of 'indiscriminate' killing in Gaza South Africa will not reinstate ambassador to Israel, recalled over Gaza deaths South African firm backs out of Israeli-led dairy purchase after BDS pressure Because of the election battle, an important item fell by the wayside that should have resonated here: South Africa has decided to downgrade its relations with Israel to the level of liaison bureau, which will not deal with bilateral relations. Ambassador to Israel Sisa Ngombane, who was recalled to protest the killing of...

6Apr

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Africa, Palestine Affairs, South Africa, ZIO-NAZI

A Foreign Ministry: First stage of Nazi embassy downgrade complete

NOVANEWS Related South Africa downgrades embassy to liaison office in Tel Aviv Kahanism: The logical conclusion of Zionism Activists in Nigeria, SA call for end to Israeli occupation AOHR UK: Mossad is believed to have investigated, tortured Baajour South Africa has already completed stage one in the process of the downgrading of its embassy to Tel Aviv, and South African ambassador to Tel Aviv, Sisa Ngombane, is back in South Africa, said Minister of International Relations, Lindiwe Sisulu, on Wednesday. Speaking at the South African Institute of International Affairs in Johannesburg, Sisulu went on to say: “Our liaison office in Tel Aviv will have no political mandate, no trade mandate and no development co-operation mandate. It will not be responsible for t...