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Ayesha Omar
Gaza’s humanitarian aid massacre through the lens of Sharpeville
This human rights month, Ayesha Omar recounts what lessons the world can learn from the Sharpeville massacre of 1960
Mandela was not alone when he made his first vote
He recalled the names of the people who went before him, laying the foundation for a democratic South Africa
Mandela and De Klerk: South Africa’s first election debate
Ten days before the first democratic election the extraordinary occurred when the leader of the liberation movement and that of the apartheid National Party sat down to talk
Tasks Mandela set remain unfinished business
It is 30 years since Nelson Mandela gave his inaugural address that spoke of oppression in the past and hope for the future
Israel’s destruction of archives, libraries strip Gazans of their past
The anti-apartheid archives provide an understanding of our past and therefore present, something Palestinians no longer have
South Africa and Palestine through Mamdani’s prism of decolonisation
The political theorist suggests that the dismantling of apartheid South Africa is a useful example for finding a solution for Palestine
ICJ case echoes Tambo’s liberation plea for Palestine
In 1979, 25 years after the anti-colonial conference in Indonesia, the ANC leader recalled the ‘spirit of Bandung’ when he called for the freedom of South Africans and Palestinians
South Africa has a political ‘crisis of ideas’
For the country to renew itself it needs to interrogate its intellectual history and context to find solutions to the contemporary democratic politics