Reaching out from the Global South
Sakeliga and NEASA release a statement this week confirming that "South Africa’s Department of Employment and Labour is instructing employers to apply the long-repealed 1950 Population Registration Act to racially classify their employees." The un...
MEGAPHONE-mouth Megan Choritz appears to have become a permanent installation outside Cape Town's Holocaust Museum. An institution that deals exclusively with the past and which has nothing to do with Israel as such, is being picketed on a weekly basis by the Qatari-based 'Jews for a Free Palesti...
A PRIVATE-MEMBERS bill sponsored by Imran Ismail-Moosa MP of Al Jama-ah party claims to domesticate the 1973 UN Apartheid Convention. The bill's aim is anything but the domestication of the apartheid convention. The UN 'Convention on the Suppression of the Crime of Apartheid' as it was implemente...
NALEDI Pandor the former foreign minister, who launched South Africa's ICJ case against Israel in the aftermath of Operation Al Aqsa Flood, has had her USA Visa revoked. This action by the US state department is for a number of reasons, chief of which is Pandor expressing a willingness to extend...
WHEN THE World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC) declared "Apartheid is a heresy" at Ottawa in August 1982, they did so knowing that the general synods of South Africa's Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk (NGK) had posited there were "skriftuurlike gronde" (scriptural grounds) to support "rasse-ap...
THE MENDELSOHN review application against two UCT Council resolutions is taking place in the Western Cape High Court. It presents important challenges to a debate on rival definitions of antisemitism, academic freedom and the right to dissent under the current constitution. The basis for the chal...