South Africa

The US Government Sabotaged Genocide Convention Orders Against Israel

February 24, 2026 Sam Husseini. Educate! Genocide, International Court of Justice (ICJ), Israel, Palestine, South Africa, United Nations, Uniting for Peace

A final judgment from the International Court of Justice on South Africa’s Genocide Convention case against Israel could be years away. But that doesn’t mean there can’t be progress in the case before then. In early 2024, South Africa won each of the three rounds of emergency orders that it sought from the Court. The final one, on May 24, 2024, specifically ordered that “Israel must immediately halt its military offensive, and any other action in the Rafah Governorate.” A properly functioning UN Security Council would have implemented the high Court’s orders. It was reported at the time that Algeria, then the sole Arab member of the UNSC, was drafting a resolution to do that.

‘It Is Venezuela Today; It Will Be South Africa Tomorrow’

January 28, 2026 Pavan Kulkarni, People's Dispatch. Resist! African Union (AU), Immigration Customs Enforcement, International Court of Justice (ICJ), Nicolas Maduro, Nigeria, South Africa, Venezuela

Demanding the release of Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores, South Africa’s largest trade union marched to the US consulate in Johannesburg on Saturday, January 24. “In defending Venezuela, we defend the sovereignty of all nations,” concluded the memorandum read aloud outside the consulate by Irvin Jim, general secretary of the over 460,000 members-strong National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA). “It is Venezuela today … It will be South Africa tomorrow,” Jim warned in his address to the demonstration.

‘Rogue State’: South Africans Protest Outside US Embassy

January 13, 2026 Pavan Kulkarni, People's Dispatch. Resist! Bolivarian Venezuela, Cuba, Nicolas Maduro, South Africa, US Imperialism, Venezuela

“Hands off Venezuela”, “Free Maduro”, “Kidnapped by the empire, free them now!”, read the placards, carried by hundreds in their march to the US embassy in South Africa’s capital Pretoria on Thursday, January 8. Participants in the solidarity action also waved the Venezuelan flag alongside red hammer-and-sickle flags. Addressing this protest against the US bombing of Venezuela and the illegal abduction of its President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores on January 3, South African Communist Party (SACP) general secretary, Solly Mapaila, condemned the US as a “rogue state”.

Unable to Squeeze Another Dime From Black People, Subprime Economy Runs Aground

November 27, 2025 Jon Jeter, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Economic crisis, Finance and the Economy, South Africa, Subprime lending

Among the most exploited South Africans during 48 years of white minority misrule were the vineyard workers who were often paid with daily rations of wine to supplement their pitiful wages. Known as the “dop”—Afrikaans slang for “drink”—the practice was outlawed in 1960, but it was only after voters of all races went to the polls to abolish apartheid 34 years later that the Black majority government began to enforce the ban. In late 2000, I went to South Africa’s wine-growing region in the Western Cape to interview a white attorney who had recently purchased a vineyard in the hopes of fulfilling his lifelong dream of producing award-winning wines.

Brazil To Join South Africa’s Complaint Against ‘Israel’ At International Court Of Justice

July 16, 2025 Orinoco Tribune. Resist! Brazil, Genocide, International Court of Justice (ICJ), International Law, Palestine, South Africa

According to Folha de S. Paulo, Brazil will formally request to participate in the lawsuit filed by South Africa against Tel Aviv. The Brazilian news outlet stated that the complaint before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) seeks to have the actions committed by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip recognized as genocide. South Africa filed a case at the ICJ in 2023, accusing Israel of committing genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. The complaint, rooted in the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, alleges that Israel’s military operations since October 2023 have targeted the Palestinian population with the intent to destroy their group in whole or in part.

Struggle For The Freedom Charter Goes On

July 13, 2025 Ronnie Kasrils, Mail and Guardian. Strategize! Apartheid, Democracy, Freedom Charter, South Africa

The Freedom Charter was adopted in Kliptown 70 years ago, on 26 June 1955. Thousands of delegates travelled across South Africa — by train, by bus, on foot — to take part in the Congress of the People. They met under an open sky, gathered on a dusty field where a wooden stage had been erected. Armed police watched from the perimeter but the atmosphere was determined and jubilant. One by one, the clauses of the Charter — on land, work, education, housing, democracy, peace — were read aloud, and each was met with unanimous approval. The charter distilled months of discussion and collective vision.

BRICS Demands End To Violence In West Asia

June 27, 2025 Jhulimar Fraga, Orinoco Tribune. Educate! Brazil, BRICS, China, Denuclearization, International Law, Iran, Israel, Nuclear Weapons, Russia, South Africa, US Imperialism, West Asia

The BRICS, the influential bloc of emerging geopolitical powers, demanded an immediate end to the cycle of violence in West Asia following the recent attacks against Iran. The group also pushed for the establishment of a zone free of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction in the region as a whole, a crucial measure to ensure long-term stability, The Brazilian government, the current president of the bloc, issued the forceful statement on Tuesday, June 24. The statement responds directly to the recent United States and Israeli military attacks against Iran, events that have dangerously escalated regional tensions.

South African ‘Refugees’ May Find The Grass Is Not Greener In America

May 17, 2025 Jon Jeter, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Donald Trump, Land Reform, Racism, Refugees, South Africa

Not much is publicly known about the nearly 60 white South Africans who arrived May 12, 2025, at Dulles National Airport in suburban Washington DC, fleeing what the Trump administration describes as racial discrimination and political violence from the country’s Black majority. But in classifying South Africa’s privileged white minority as “refugees” and fast-tracking their path to US citizenship, the White House, in typical fashion, overlooks a salient point which is that statistically speaking, South Africa is arguably the most comfortable place in the world for white settlers to live while the US is among the least.

Episcopal Church Refuses To Resettle White Afrikaners

May 13, 2025 Jack Jenkins, NPR. Resist! Apartheid, Donald Trump, Migrants, Morality, Racism, South Africa

In a striking move that ends a nearly four-decades-old relationship between the federal government and the Episcopal Church, the denomination announced on Monday that it is terminating its partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as refugees by President Trump's administration. In a letter sent to members of the church, the Most Rev. Sean W. Rowe — the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church — said that two weeks ago, the government "informed Episcopal Migration Ministries that under the terms of our federal grant, we are expected to resettle white Afrikaners from South Africa whom the U.S. government has classified as refugees."

‘I Will Wear My Persona Non Grata As A Badge Of Dignity’

March 26, 2025 Pavan Kulkarni, People's Dispatch. Resist! BRICS, China, Cuba, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Genocide, International Court of Justice (ICJ), South Africa, US Imperialism

Cheering crowds thronged outside the Cape Town International Airport on Sunday, March 23, to welcome the South African ambassador expelled from the US after being subjected to repeated attacks for his stance in solidarity with Palestine. “Ebrahim Rasool is a race-baiting politician who hates America,” US State Secretary Marco Rubio accused in a X post on March 15. “We have nothing to discuss with him and so he is considered PERSONA NON-GRATA,” Rubio added, sharing the alt-right Breitbart News report on the academic observations Rasool had made on the white supremacist character of the “MAGA movement” in a webinar hosted by a South African think tank.

South Africa’s Long Road To Land Reform

February 11, 2025 Jonis Ghedi-Alasow, People's Dispatch. Strategize! colonization, Hunger, Inequality, Land Reform, Land Rights, South Africa, White Supremacy

On January 23, 2025, South Africa enacted an Expropriation Act, updating the methods for land expropriation for the first time in fifty years. The new Act allows for land expropriation for public purposes and interests whilst introducing the possibility of zero compensation for expropriated land. Consequently, the Act’s scope has been broadened since its 1975 version. Land can still be expropriated for public purposes, such as constructing roads, an uncontroversial and universally accepted practice. The expansion of the scope to include public interest, however, also enables the Act to address a long-standing issue of land reform.

Ireland Formally Joins ICJ Genocide Case Against Israel

January 8, 2025 News Desk, The Cradle. Educate! Genocide, International Court of Justice (ICJ), Ireland, Israel, Palestine, South Africa

Ireland has submitted a declaration to join South Africa's case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) accusing Israel of genocide. “Ireland, invoking Article 63 of the Statute of the Court, filed in the Registry of the Court a declaration of intervention in the case concerning Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip,” or South Africa versus Israel, the ICJ said in a statement on 7 January. Under Article 63, any state party to a convention that is under judicial consideration has the right to intervene, making the ICJ's interpretation of that convention binding on them as well.

Seven Lessons From South Africa’s Genocide Convention Case

December 30, 2024 Sam Husseini, Substack. Strategize! Ceasefire, International Court of Justice (ICJ), Israel, Joe Biden, Palestine, South Africa

On December 29, 2023, South Africa invoked the Genocide Convention against Israel at the International Court of Justice. To some people, this came out of the blue. Some are aware there was a concerted effort to that end through the fall of 2023 which involved myself and others. Few are aware that the story goes back further. And tragically few are aware that there are clear steps that can be taken now to give it force which the US government has insidiously undermined. In 2000, Prof. Francis Boyle published the piece “Palestine Should Sue Israel for Genocide before the International Court of Justice.” Boyle reiterated such calls periodically, particularly when Israel would decimate Gaza.

The Hidden Story Of Britain’s Anti-Apartheid Militants

December 2, 2024 Marcus Barnett, Jacobin. Strategize! Apartheid, Militancy, Solidarity, South Africa, United Kingdom (UK)

At an East London cinema last summer, several dozen people in their late sixties and early seventies took to the stage. After being beckoned forwards by the compere, the veteran South African revolutionary Ronnie Kasrils, the shying group of mostly retirees received repeated standing ovations from loved ones, politicians, and diplomats filling out the private screening. Afterward, they chatted at the cinema bar and signed pamphlets and books, while their proud children and grandchildren took selfies with the actors who had portrayed their family members in the film they had just enjoyed.

South African Anti-Apartheid Movement Offers Hope

November 24, 2024 Robert Ross, Mondoweiss. Strategize! anti-apartheid, BDS Movement, Biden administration, Donald Trump, South Africa

The Biden administration’s insistence to continue arming Israel despite it carrying out what a growing consensus of scholars and human rights organizations are calling a genocide in Gaza has been one of the greatest moral failures in modern American history. While the Biden administration’s approach to the situation has been disastrous, there are legitimate fears that Donald Trump’s second term in office may prove even worse for Palestinian survival, much less liberation. In the wake of these traumatizing times, it is worth looking back at the South African anti-apartheid movement during a similar moment in American history for some hope and guidance.

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