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Nelson Mandela’s grandson, Mandla Mandela, returned to South Africa on Wednesday after spending six days in an Israeli prison after the Global Sumud Flotilla was intercepted last Thursday. (Busi Lethole/M&G)
ASHDOD DETENTION ISRAEL
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Freed SA activists call on governments to take more action against Israel

The group returned to South Africa on Wednesday after being detained in an Israeli prison for six days

  • Aarti Bhana
4 min read
The South African flotilla activists, Mandla Mandela, Fatima Hendricks, Zaheera Soomar, Zukiswa Wanner, Reaaz Moola and Carrie Shelver have safely arrived in Jordan after being kept in an Israeli prison, Dirco confirms.
FLOTILLA DETAINEES

SA flotilla activists arrive in Jordan after being held captive in Israel

The group is due to arrive in Johannesburg on Wednesday morning

  • Aarti Bhana
2 min read
The six South Africans who were captured by Israel while part of the Global Sumud Flotilla last week are set to return home on Tuesday
APARTHEID

Gaza flotilla sails on despite attacks

Along with drone attacks, the fleet faces a political campaign to delegitimise it

  • Hasina Kathrada
5 min read
Israeli digital diplomat David Saranga is using sub-national forms of diplomacy to make inroads into South African society. (David Saranga/X)
ABATHEMBU

Israel’s quiet power play in South Africa’s rural heartlands

Israeli digital diplomat David Saranga is using sub-national forms of diplomacy to make inroads into South African society

  • Mariam Jooma Carikci
7 min read
Inkosi Mandla Mandela recalled the years when his country was an outcast, kept alive by global solidarity. Now, he said, the same must be done for Palestine. Photo: Hasina Kathrada
APARTHEID

Mandla Mandela urges same global support for Palestine that helped free SA from apartheid

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…

  • Hasina Kathrada
5 min read
Nurain Saloojee comes from a family that opposed apartheid in South Africa. Photo: Hasina Kathrada
APARTHEID

From SA to Gaza. A young activist carries on family tradition of fighting oppression

Nurain Saloojee comes from a family that opposed apartheid in South Africa

  • Hasina Kathrada
5 min read
Swedish activist Greta Thunberg. (Hasina Kathrada)
BDS MOVEMENT

UPDATE: Greta Thunberg accuses governments and corporations of enabling Gaza atrocities

The Swedish activist spoke from a flotilla of boats carrying doctors, lawyers, activists, organisers and social media influencers attempting to take medicine and infant milk to…

  • Hasina Kathrada
3 min read
The Samud Flotilla consists of boats from 47 countries and is a symbol of steadfastness against Israel’s occupation and the genocide in Gaza. Photo: Tan Safi/Freedom Flotilla Coalition
BDS MOVEMENT

UPDATED: South Africans sail with largest civilian flotilla to Gaza

The convoy is carrying baby formula, antibiotics, bandages and staple foods and will test whether Israel’s blockade will again choke civilian access to the Strip

  • Hasina Kathrada
5 min read
Former Ingonyama Trust Board Chairman, Jerome Ngwenya.
INGONYAMA TRUST BOARD

Suspended Ingonyama Trust Board staff battle to clear their names

Despite being reinstated, staff members have not been compensated for their ordeal

  • Paddy Harper
4 min read
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development Minister Thoko Didiza has finally appointed a full nine-member Ingonyama Trust Board, which will be headed by King Misuzulu ka Zwelithini’s nominee, Thanduyise Mzimela.
AUDITOR GENERAL SOUTH AFRICA

Ingonyama Trust Board is unaccountable: Parliament

Land Reform Minister Thoko Didiza says a new board will be in place by mid-January

  • Paddy Harper
6 min read
Mandla Mandela, Member of Parliament and grandson of former South African President Nelson Mandela, speaks after demonstrators from a variety of political parties and social movements marched through the city centre in Cape Town, on May 12, 2021 during a protest against Israeli attacks on Palestinians in Gaza as violence escalated between the bitter rivals sparked by unrest at Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. (RODGER BOSCH/AFP via Getty Images)
AFRICA

Right of reply: Mandla Mandela hijacks African continental crises in bid for relevance

Zwelivelile Mandla Mandela uses the continent’s security problems as a prism through which to cast his dark agenda against Israel into the minds of Africa’s youth

  • Pamela Ngubane
5 min read
A priest leads a funeral procession for four United Democratic Front activists from Queenstown who were abducted and murdered by the South African security police. Those slain included Matthew Goniwe and Sparrow Mkonto. One mourner carries a small ceremonial spear within his black power salute, symbolic of Umkonto Wa Sizwe, which means “spear of the nation”. (Photo by Gideon Mendel/Corbis via Getty Images)
APARTHEID CRIMES

Let us not allow FW De Klerk’s death to tear us apart

His blanket apology did not cast him as a man of principle but as a man of cowardice

  • Zubeida Jaffer
4 min read
The trust’s officials couldn’t say how the money was invested because the information was not forthcoming from the ITB’s investment wing. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
CYRIL RAMAPHOSA

Parliament backs move to scrap Ingonyama Trust

Mandla Mandela believes rural land rights have to be recognised

  • Paddy Harper
2 min read
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DENEL

Unembargoed: October 19 to 25

The battle for Denel: Row over Zuma and Mandla’s Qatar visit and how the South African arms company is caught in the crossfire of Saudi-Qatar conflict

  • Staff Reporter
8 min read
Broker: Mandla Mandela denies helping to set up Jacob Zuma’s meeting with the emir of Qatar. (Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters)
DENEL

Government  ‘uncomfortable’  with Zuma meeting Qatar emir

Sources have confirmed that the department of international relations is unhappy about the meeting between the Emir of Qatar and the former president

  • Sabelo Skiti
  • Athandiwe Saba
2 min read