South Africa

Palestinian Union of Muslim Scholars mourns the death of Moulana Sheikh Ihsaan Hendricks, the anti-apartheid activist who died on Friday in Cape Town. In a statement, the Palestinian Union...

The prominent South African scholar Mawlana Shaykh Ihsaan Hendricks al-Nadwi passed away on Friday night at the age of 54 years after a lengthy illness. International human rights and...

Palestinian teen, Ahed Tamimi, released from Israeli prison

A South African model, who has given her backing to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, is the latest celebrity to be banned from entering Palestine by Israeli...

The Zionist movement has always been a schizophrenic one. The mainstream ruling factions of the movement, and later of the state of Israel, once claimed to be "socialist" in...

South Africa has rejected Saudi and UAE pressure to severe relations with Qatar, Al-Khaleej Online reported Pretoria's envoy to Doha saying. During a celebration to remember South African freedom...

Dozens of Jewish groups worldwide issued "an unprecedented joint statement on Tuesday backing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and saying that criticism of Israel's actions does not...

Johannesburg's Health Minister Mpho Phalatse was suspended yesterday after declaring the South African city a "friend of Israel". Phalatse made the comments while speaking at the South African Friends...

Foreign investment in Algeria fell $1.2 billion in 2017, a drop of 26 per cent compared to 2016, according the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). A World...

Israel's colonisation of Palestine has altered the dynamics of politics and expectation to one of permanent exploitation and compromise. The two-state compromise, in particular, has ensnared governments, as well...

Nothing could illustrate the stark contrast between a post-1994 democratic South Africa and Israel's apartheid structures than the iconic photograph of Hector Pieterson taken by Sam Nzima. The picture...

Parliament in South Africa has been urged to downgrade its embassy in Israel in response to Tel Aviv's heavy-handed response to Palestinian protesters in Gaza and its continued occupation....

Hamas today welcomed the withdrawal of South Africa's Ambassador to Israel, Sisa Ngombane, as a result of the violent aggression carried out by Israeli armed forces along the Gaza...

Palestinian group Fatah has hailed Turkey and South Africa for recalling ambassadors from Israel over the death of dozens of Palestinians by Israeli gunfire on the border of the...

As I write this, at least 52 Palestinians, including children, have been shot and killed by Israeli troops today, Monday 14 May 2018; well over a thousand more have...

The South African government today condemned in the strongest terms possible the latest act of violent aggression carried out by the Israeli armed forces along the Gaza border, which...

One of the facts about Israel that is often disputed is its status as an apartheid state. There are, obviously, some differences between the Israeli regime occupying Palestine and...

The chairman of BDS South Africa's board will receive the Order of Luthuli (Silver) from President Cyril Ramaphosa for "his brilliant contribution to academic research and to the fight...

Thousands attend Winnie Mandela’s memorial service in South Africa

At a time when South Africa is mourning the passing of the country's beloved icon of the freedom struggle Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the world is reeling from yet more evidence...

Ghanaian Member of Parliament, Ras Mubarak, was been denied entry into the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) by Israel yesterday, according to the Afro-Palestinian Newswire service. The National Democratic Congress...

The African National Congress (ANC), has called for a cultural boycott of Israel after expressing disappointment in the recent visit of DJ Nkosinathi Maphumulo, popularly known as Black Coffee,...

The government on Wednesday condemned the latest incidents of violence carried out by Israeli armed forces in the Gaza Strip that claimed more than a dozen Palestinian lives. In a statement,...

The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement has expressed "deep sadness" at the death of veteran anti-Apartheid freedom fighter Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, who died on Monday aged 81. "Mama Winnie was an...

Apartheid land theft is an explosive issue as manifested in South Africa's "expropriation without compensation" debate and Israel's massacre of Palestinians in Gaza as they marched peacefully in protest...

Be in absolutely no doubt about the significance of the start of the peaceful Great Return March which began in Gaza on Friday and led to 17 Palestinians being...

Palestine must be placed on the agenda of the BRICS countries' meeting this year, a senior South African minister said on Wednesday. Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa...

Zionist fulminations against the evocative A-word will now have to contend with the ignoble G-word. That Israel is an Apartheid entity is now indisputable, with international institutions and academics...

Nelson Mandela's daughter-in-law and granddaughter-in-law speak exclusively to Anadolu Agency

As Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) reaches South African shores on 12 March, in the wake of similar programmes in 250 cities around the globe, the iniquitous racist Israeli system...

This year, the 14th Israeli Apartheid Week will be commemorated in over 200 cities around the world. Commonly referred to as IAW, as a South African I do not...

South Africa has been a staunch ally of the Palestinian struggle and regularly spoken out against the atrocities committed by the Israeli government