Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Tuesday hailed the mini Africa summit held to discuss the Grand Ethiopia Renaissance Dam (GERD). In a tweet, the official wrote: “I Fruitful...

Attempts by Israel's advocates to portray my grandfather as a liberal pacifist is a distortion of his legacy

Egypt discussed with South Africa on Friday the necessity of reaching a comprehensive legal agreement between all concerned parties regarding the rules for filling and operating the Ethiopian Renaissance...

South Africa’s Chief Justice has come under intense fire for publically expressing his love for Israel. Mogeong Mogeong made his pro-Israel comments on an online platform hosted by the...

Israel will become an apartheid state if it moves ahead with the planned annexation of the West Bank, warned Benjamin Pogrund, an ally of Nelson Mandela, who for decades had...

Failed policies pursued by certain Arab countries to face the spread of the coronavirus pandemic may lead to much bigger losses than those expected if the virus spreads. So...

A group of Western mercenaries linked with companies based in the United Arab Emirates has been revealed to have been briefly deployed to Libya to fight alongside the rival...

Tributes have poured in from across the world for Denis Goldberg, the veteran South African anti-apartheid campaigner who died on Wednesday aged 87. Goldberg was a close ally of...

A brutal legacy of Apartheid South Africa’s notorious assault on human rights was the violent enforcement of detention without trial. Scores of people targeted as opponents of white minority...

On 10-11 March several hundred guests gathered at the Divine Restoration Ministries on the outskirts of Bloemfontein, the capital of the Free State province in South Africa, to attend...

The United States on Wednesday named seven companies that it has blacklisted for trade-in Iranian petrochemicals, three based in mainland China, three in Hong Kong and one in South...

If any country which claims to be a democracy, its potential prime minister declares that the votes of a significant minority are not part of the democratic ‘equation’, they...

An Israeli taxi-hailing app, offering its Jewish customers the option which guarantees that they will not be picked up by an Arab cab driver, is being sued by human...

South Africa’s President, Cyril Ramaphosa, compared US President Donald Trump’s so-called “peace plan” for Palestine to apartheid South Africa’s Bantustan system. The 33rd African Union Summit was launched yesterday...

South Africa aims to free up over a billion dollars in stalled weapons sales, including to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, by amending a document at the...

So the administration of US President Donald Trump finally published its “Ultimate Deal”, a document being trumpeted as a “peace plan”. But in reality, it is nothing of the...

South African anti-apartheid revolutionary leader Nelson Mandela’s grandson on Wednesday rejected US President Donald Trump’s so-called “Deal of the Century” to resolve the Palestinian, Israeli conflict, Anadolu reports. “We...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said yesterday that he had asked South Africa’s president to mediate his country’s dispute with Egypt over Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam. Ahmed, who visited...

A South African delegation will meet officials in the United Arab Emirates to discuss why the country has not ratified any extradition treaty, South Africa said on Monday, as...

South African Minister of Public Enterprises Patricia De Lille yesterday said “there must be an urgent call for concrete action and legislation to comprehensively liberate Palestine”. Speaking at an...

The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Senate last week rejected a resolution to join an academic boycott of Israel. The ballot, held on Friday, saw 68 per cent of the...

During the 1970s and 1980s, the white-minority South African government – in a bid to normalise apartheid and shore up support for its oppressive policies – employed a policy...

Nelson Mandela’s church, the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, this month endorsed Palestine’s Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS). At a recent conference in Cape Town, the church denounced...

The number of Christians in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories is declining as a result of the suppressive political and economic conditions due to the conflict with Israel....

We may be too optimistic to hope that the massive demonstrations that have spread in all the cities of Lebanon will lead to the collapse of Hariri’s regime that...

South Africa’s foreign policy and diplomatic positions towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have been remarkably steady since the end of the apartheid regime and the election of Nelson Mandela (1918-2013)...

“Perhaps the time has come for Palestinians and justice-loving Israelis to imagine a new future,” wrote South African intellectuals and academics, Na’eem Jeenah and Salim Vally, in their essay,...

The Methodist Church of Southern Africa (MCSA) – to which the South African President Nelson Mandela belonged – has joined the BDS movement, the movement’s South Africa branch reported...

Kamil Suleiman from Cape Town has become a Guinness World Record holder after running the fastest marathon dressed as a leprechaun, all in solidarity with Palestine. At this year’s...

South Africa’s Ambassador to the UN Jerry Matjila has criticised the UN for not implementing any of its 72 resolutions on Palestine since 1948. Matjila, president of the Security...

The allegations date back to 2013 and are unconnected to anti-government protests taking place in Lebanon now

On September 16, I visited South Africa, a country where many Palestinians have always felt welcomed, if not overwhelmed by the degree of genuine and meaningful solidarity. While having...