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Brazen theft: When a political formation that played no role in the armed struggle adopts the MK name and symbols, it is more than confusion, argues the writer. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy
AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CONGRESS AIC

The ANC’s heritage under siege

Others go as far as attempting to steal the very names and symbols that belong to the ANC and its fallen heroes

  • Cornelius Monama
9 min read
Former president Nelson Mandela holds a speech during a rally in Soweto on February 13, 1990 in Johannesburg, South Africa. (Photo by Georges De Keerle/Getty Images)
DEMOCRACY

Tasks Mandela set remain unfinished business

It is 30 years since Nelson Mandela gave his inaugural address that spoke of oppression in the past and hope for the future

  • Ayesha Omar
4 min read
Protests and other actions for human rights matter, and collectively there is much we can do. (Photos: Zubair Sayed)
APARTHEID

Why I marched for Palestine

Protests and other actions for human rights matter, and collectively there is much we can do

  • Zubair Sayed
8 min read
Palestinian supporters wave flags as they take part in a counter demonstration outside the venue where Israel supporters gather in an event organised by the South Africa Zionist Federation in Johannesburg, on May 23, 2021. (Photo by MARCO LONGARI / AFP) (Photo by MARCO LONGARI/AFP via Getty Images)
AFRICAN UNION

Israel must not have a place at the African Union until it ends its occupation of Palestine

The AU Commission chairperson’s decision to accept the credentials of Israel’s ambassador to Ethiopia undermines the anti-colonial values that underpin the AU

  • Hanan Jarrar
5 min read
South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un meet in the truce village of Panmunjom inside the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas
BARACK OBAMA

Handshakes that shook the world

When the leaders of North and South Korea reached across the Military Demarcation Line to shake hands, they symbolically united the peninsula

  • Agency
5 min read
Palestine’s former leader Yasser Arafat.
JIHAN ABDALLA

Arafat’s body exhumed to find cause of death

The body of Palestine’s late leader Yasser Arafat has been exhumed by a team of international experts trying to discover if he was poisoned.

  • Jihan Abdalla
3 min read
Palestine’s former leader Yasser Arafat.
YASSER ARAFAT

Swiss lab to analyse Arafat remains for poisoning

A Swiss radiology lab said it has received the go-ahead from the widow of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to test his remains for poisoning.

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read
Palestine’s former leader Yasser Arafat.
SAPA AFP

Arafat’s body may be screened for poisoning

The Palestinians are ready to accept a medical examination of the body of former leader Yasser Arafat if his family agrees.

  • Sapa Afp
2 min read
Palestinian officials ‘ignored’ in Tunisian Hamas talks
GAZA STRIP

Palestinian officials ‘ignored’ in Tunisian Hamas talks

A visit by Gaza’s Hamas leader has angered official Palestinian representatives in Tunisia who say they were ‘ignored’ during the talks.

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read
International arrest warrant against Arafat’s widow lifted
KADHEM ZINE EL ABIDINE

International arrest warrant against Arafat’s widow lifted

Tunisia has decided to lift an international arrest warrant for alleged corruption issued against Suha Arafat, widow of the former Palestinian leader.

  • Staff Reporter
1 min read
AHMAD KAYED

Palestinian businesses look east to China

Faced with Israeli trade and travel restrictions, a stagnant economy and a flood of cheap imports from Asia, Palestinian businessmen are increasingly seeking their fortunes in…

  • Wafa Amr
5 min read
BUSH ADMINISTRATION

Report: US plotted to overthrow Hamas

The Bush administration, caught out by the rise of Hamas, embarked on a secret project for the armed overthrow of the Islamist government in Gaza, it emerged on Monday. Vanity…

  • Staff Reporter
3 min read
BENITO JUAREZ

Who is the shortest world leader?

Until Monday there was little argument about the holder of the coveted title of shortest leader in the world: at 162cm, or a shade over five feet three inches, Kim Jong-il,…

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read
EXECUTIVE FORCE

Hamas rounds up Fatah activists after Gaza violence

Hamas has rounded up scores of Fatah activists in the Gaza Strip following a rally that drew more than 200 000 supporters and ended in gunfire that killed seven people. The…

  • Nidal Al-Mughrabi
2 min read
GAZA STRIP

Gunfire kills six at Fatah rally

Gunfire killed at least six people and wounded 80 on Monday at a Fatah memorial rally for Yasser Arafat attended by hundreds of thousands of supporters of the defeated faction in…

  • Nidal Al-Mughrabi
2 min read