Nelson Mandela stated after South Africa attained democratic rule that “we South Africans cannot feel free until the Palestinians are free.”
In this episode we give you the full tea on the war in Gaza, Palestine, the ICJ genocide case and it's connection to the complex South Africa-Israel situationship.
From some shared origins back in 1948, South African apartheid and Israel share a lot in common. On the other hand, the South African ANC government post-1994 has expressed a lot of support for the Palestinian people's quest for self-determination.
Join comedians KG Mokgadi and Céline Tshika and the award-winning Politically Aweh team as we explain the conflict and the reason South Africa got involved. We speak to experts including researcher Vanessa Farr, who has lived for many years in Palestine and grew up under South Africa's apartheid system, and Zeenat Adam, the Deputy Executive-Director at the Afro-Middle East Centre. We also reached out to Jamie Rosengarten from South African Jews for a Free Palestine to find out what makes this issue so personal for many South African jews.
