Associate director of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies David Saks weighs in on Kevin Bloom's views on the mentality around Israel.

The recall of South Africa's envoy to Israel leaves the Jewish community in South Africa with a "great sense of discomfort".

The call is part of a growing demand by Palestinian sympathisers to investigate the role of South African Jews in the IDF.

The storm of controversy unleashed by South African Deputy Foreign Minister Fatima Hajaig's anti-Semitic comments is showing no sign of abating.

The Jewish Board of Deputies has filed a complaint of hate speech against Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Fatima Hajaig with the SAHRC.

"I saw nothing wrong," said African National Congress president Jacob Zuma when asked whether he approved of the exclusion of white journalists from an address at the Forum of Black Journalists (FBJ) on Friday. Zuma was addressing journalists after the FBJ re-launch held at the Sandton Sun hotel in Johannesburg.

The South African National Editors' Forum has slammed the decision of the new Forum of Black Journalists to exclude white journalists from their meeting in Sandton on Friday. African National Congress president Jacob Zuma was to deliver an off-the-record address at the inaugural imbizo.

African National Congress president Jacob Zuma is to deliver an off-the-record address at the inaugural imbizo of a forum exclusively for black journalists in Sandton on Friday. Chairperson Abbey Makoe said the Forum of Black Journalists was an association "who would politically in the South African context be defined as of African descent, coloureds and Indians".