South Africa

Some observers get very touchy at the mention of a pro-Israel lobby sweeping the corridors of power to influence opinion formers, politicians and media in order for them to...

Talks are reportedly underway in an effort to reschedule the cancelled Africa-Israel Summit, with Israeli officials proposing it be held in Jerusalem within the next six months, according to...

The approval of thousands more housing units in Israel's illegal colony-settlements across the occupied West Bank is the latest undertaking by the country's extreme right-wing regime led by war-criminal...

Senator Chuck Schumer's plaintive lament before the US Senate decrying the supposedly despicable practice of criticising Israel under the guise of anti-Zionism moves inexorably closer to fulfilment. The Anti-Semitism...

Algerian sources revealed that ten heads of state were scheduled to visit Algeria this year and have meetings with the President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, yet these visits have been perpetually cancelled....

To a certain extent, Aung San Suu Kyi is a false prophet. Glorified by the west for many years, she was made a 'democracy icon' because she opposed the...

There is something immoral in Washington D.C., and its consequences can be dire for many people, particularly for the health of US democracy. The US government is declaring war...

The South African Parliament has refused to meet with an Israeli delegation that was planning to visit members of the country's assembly in Cape Town. The planned visit by...

South African Muslim leaders and civil rights groups have condemned Israel's restriction on Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam's third holiest site. Moulana Ebrahim Bham, secretary-general of the Council of Muslim theologians (Jamiatul...

The United Nations and the South African Embassy in Khartoum yesterday celebrated the Nelson Mandela Day with the participation of a number of civil society organisations in Sudan. The...

The leadership of South Africa's Council of African Independent Churches (CAIC) yesterday pledged its support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign. Following a trip to Palestine, Deputy...

The African National Congress (ANC), the ruling party of South Africa, voted on Tuesday in favour of downgrading South Africa's diplomatic representation in Israel in protest of the occupation....

South Africa's largest trade union federation, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), has joined with health sector unions to demand the expulsion of the Israeli Medical Association...

The head of the African Union delegation currently in Egypt has compared ousted President Mohammed Morsi to South Africa's iconic leader Nelson Mandela. Alpha Oumar Konaré, the former President...

The death of South African liberation icon Nelson Mandela last night has brought in floods of well-deserved tributes. But the hypocrisy of many of these, often from the very...