WHY A FREE PALESTINE IS THE ONLY PATH TO ENDING THE CRISIS IN GAZA
As this week marked the 48th Commemoration of the UN International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People and the celebration of 30 years of diplomatic relations between South Africa and the State of Palestine, a stark reminder echoes in our minds that the world has watched Gaza burn for far too long. Every cycle […]
G20 SUMMIT PROVED THAT THE CHANGING WORLD IS LEAVING THE US BEHIND
The US government finally received a G20 Presidency hand-over at a low-key event in the South African capital, Pretoria. It was no less that Washington deserved. The Trump administration boycotted the recent G20 Leaders Summit, the first to be held on the African continent. The boycott was premised on a litany of blatant lies about […]
THE UN IS TEETERING ON THE BRINK OF TOTAL COLLAPSE
This week, as world leaders gathered in New York for the UN General Assembly (UNGA) high-level debate as part of celebrating the 80th anniversary of the founding of the UN, gloom and doom over-shadowed the waning nobility of the organisation’s charter. The “high-level week” at the UN is held every year in September, and attracts heads […]
WAR CANNOT BE A MEANS OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION: ENDING THE ‘ANGLOSPHERE’
As this Friday’s summit meeting between Presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia and Donald Trump of the U.S. approaches, the British Empire and NATO are working to prevent peace from breaking out. The United States and Russia have significant shared interests that go beyond ending the conflict in Ukraine. “When you are meeting in Alaska on […]
MORALLY UPRIGHT SA LEADS THE WAY AGAINST ISRAEL’S IMPUNITY BEFORE ICJ
This week, the international community once again stood still and listened to harrowing evidence of Israeli brutality amid its genocidal mission in Gaza and the occupied territories of Palestine, where more than 50,000 people have been killed since October 2023 and more continue to die every hour, week and month. The International Court of Justice […]
KENNY KUNENE DEFENDS THE PA’S UNWAVERING SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL
Patriotic Alliance (PA) Deputy President Kenny Kunene has vehemently defended his party and the DA’s recent visit to Israel – shrouded in apparent veil of secrecy – saying the country’s Government of National Unity (GNU) needs to recognize that every participating party in the coalition has its own unique manifesto. A nine-member delegation made up […]
SA CONDEMNS ISRAELI AIRSTRIKE ON GAZA, BREACHING TWO-MONTH CEASEFIRE
South Africa condemns the massive Israeli airstrikes launched across Gaza on Tuesday, which have killed over 350 Palestinians. These deadly airstrikes emerge after a failure to implement the second stage of the peace agreement by Israel and despite ongoing negotiations to ensure that the ceasefire holds. The fatal attacks were reportedly greenlighted by the Israeli […]
CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER WANG YI PRAISES THE “AFRICA MOMENT” AT G20 MEETING
Chinese Foreign Affairs Minister Wang Yi, visiting South Africa for the G20 meeting of the organization’s foreign affairs ministers, has heaped praise and expressed gratitude to the hospitality of his hosts, the SA government. Of greater significance, Minister Yi acknowledged the hosting of the G20 summit for the very first on the African soil, just […]
PALESTINE OFFERS PRESIDENT TRUMP THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE GOOD ON HIS PROMISE FOR PEACE
For once, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians – sparred from the devastation caused by the US-supplied Israeli tanks, drones and automatic gunfire – are flocking back to what were once their habitable neighbourhoods. Everything, literally, has been lost in almost 16 months of sheer annihilation, characterized by the death of more than 47 000 Palestinians who […]
SOUTH AFRICA CONDEMNS IDF MASSACRES OF 100 PALESTINIANS IN GAZA IN PAST 24 HOURS
South Africa condemns in the strongest possible terms the heinous massacres committed by the Israeli Defence Force across Gaza yesterday which killed approximately 100 Palestinians, mostly women and children. In one of the massacres, 75 Palestinians from two families were killed in air strikes on two homes in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahia. […]
THE GOVERNMENT CONDEMNS THE SPREADING OF DISINFORMATION ABOUT SA’S ICJ CASE AGAINST ISRAEL
The Government of South Africa condemns the spreading of disinformation concerning itscase before the International Court of Justice (ICJ). These charges brought forth on this ongoing case (South Africa vs. Israel) are on the application of the convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide in the Gaza Strip. Efforts to misinform […]