Chikane is the Chairperson of the South African (SA) chapter of the anti-Apartheid Movement, that was successfully launched globally in Johannesburg earlier this year.

The SA chapter of the anti-apartheid movement will be launched this week.

The significant event follows extensive consultations across various sectors, with further discussions planned to ensure broad representation.

Chikane says these chapters seek to destroy Apartheid, which is behind the Gaza war, much like how the global movement that demolished Apartheid in SA saw people across the world stand against European countries and the United States (US) in their support for Apartheid.

“You know during our visit to Palestine in 2020, the Palestinians asked us to host a conference in SA about the apartheid system in Israel, telling us we are ones who understand them and their situation. They told us the world had abandoned them. I mean, you can see the genocide in Gaza, live genocide, 45 000 people dead and nobody's lifting a finger. The United Nations (UN) has been neutralised. So the case we are making is that SA had a global anti-apartheid movement of a nature that we've never seen before. And it mobilised the world against the apartheid system, especially against European countries and the US, who supported the apartheid system. The US President vetoed bills in Congress up to the last minute of the end of apartheid. It is the people of the US who forced the US to change its position. We believe that mobilising all South Africans, linking up with others chapters of the anti-apartheid movement internationally is the only way to change the world because the powerful support genocide, the powerful support primitive activity that just murders children, bomb schools, hospitals, bomb even ambulances. (In) this time and age, this should never be allowed, and that's why we are launching this SA chapter,’ Chikane said.

Chikane says there will be speakers today at the event which will take place at Freedom Park, and they will include SA’s Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development Thembi Simelane. There are also plans for protests tomorrow, which is UN day, in solidarity with Palestine.

Chikane called on all South Africans to engage in protest actions at embassies and consulates of countries that support genocide in Gaza now in the West Bank, particularly the major Western countries, the US, Britain, France, Germany and Israel. There are plans for protests in Pretoria, Sandton, Cape Town and Durban, Chikane says.

--ChannelAfrica--