Thousands of civilians will take part in a coordinated maritime and land mission to Gaza, starting on March 29 2026. Organisers say the initiative aims to create a humanitarian corridor, support Palestinians in need and strengthen international solidarity
In her new book Flotilla: A Journey of Conscience, Zukiswa Wanner recounts the harrowing final hours of a civilian flotilla intercepted while attempting to break the blockade of Gaza
The EFF leader suggested that the United States might attempt to influence the elections over policy differences with South Africa
He has been ruling like a dictator, claiming wartime powers, circumventing the Senate and Congress
Rasool is perhaps one of the few South African political figures able to articulate the global consequences of misused narratives
Hamas’s demand for Barghouti’s release reflects his symbolic and political weight
The vigil also marked the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide
The Trump administration’s exclusion of South Africa from G20 meetings comes after its recent successful hosting of the bloc’s annual leaders’ summit despite Washington’s boycott
The Turkish president pledged deeper trade and strategic cooperation with South Africa while reaffirming his strong support for its stance on the Palestinian cause
Palestine today is not merely a geographic site of struggle; it is a mirror reflecting humanity’s oldest contest — between power and truth, silence and expression, spectacle and conscience, says the writer
The UN special rapporteur said her report identifies 48 entities linked to ‘displacement and replacement’, a policy she says has taken Palestinians off their land
The UN special rapporteur will present her report “Gaza Genocide: Collective Crime” to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, from Cape Town
Delivering the annual Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture, the UN special rapporteur said the laws created to stop states from destroying each other were now being used to justify that destruction
The UN envoy says South Africa is central to the global fight against the genocide in Gaza
Should the peace prize committee embrace integrity, it would have few options to either confer the 2025 award on Yemen’s Houthi or admit defeat and cancel it.
Along with drone attacks, the fleet faces a political campaign to delegitimise it
The politics of the DA leader, who is a mayoral candidate for Johannesburg, one that manages inequality rather than transforms it
Given the close comparison between apartheid and the challenges faced by Palestinians, the government must be called upon to lead the quest for justice
In its report, the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry cited citing mass killings, starvation, forced displacement, denial of medical care and systematic destruction of civilian infrastructure
What it means for journalists to bear witness of their colleagues being targeted and killed while they bear witness to the genocide in Gaza
Countries around the world are increasingly turning against Israel and its aggression in the Middle East. South Africa’s unions and citizens must join in solidarity with Palestinians
The Cape Town Holocaust and Genocide Centre and Jewish Board of Deputies are failing to fulfil their mandates
Nelson Mandela’s grandson addressed hundreds of people from over 40 countries at the launch of the Global Sumud Flotilla, a civilian mission aiming to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza
President Cyril Ramaphosa said the uncertainty of the new trading regime had already harmed the country’s economy
Nurain Saloojee comes from a family that opposed apartheid in South Africa
Shifting geopolitics is highlighting new and old arenas of conflict and violations of international law
As Archbishop Desmond Tutu said, ‘If you are neutral in the face of suffering, you are on the side of the oppressor’
The state once enforced exclusion through law, now racial inequality is decentralised and enforced by private actors through economics, technology, the law, capital and technology
The Israeli leader knows how to say ‘ceasefire’ in English, but he governs in the syntax of siege
South Africa may have attained political emancipation but economically the chains largely remain
The grouping, made up of Belize, Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Honduras, Malaysia, Namibia, Senegal and South Africa, is a challenge to the West on Israel’s war in Gaza
The march ended an hour outside of Cairo when we were bussed back to the city