published by Tom Sullivan on Sat, 2012-09-15 21:08
South African police fired tear gas at protesting miners who have been on strike since August over demands for higher wages. Talks to end the strike collapsed this week. Earlier in the day, police raided workers’ shacks and seized weapons.
published by Lindquist on Sun, 2012-06-03 20:36
Last week, South Africa joined the growing list of world nations in boycotting Israeli goods produced inside illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank. The West Bank along with Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem was occupied by Jewish army in 1967 with the help of military aid provided by the United States.
published by Fester on Wed, 2012-03-14 13:37
A plain account of economic forces operative in the Transvaal must not be shirked. The resources of the country more and more in the hands of a group of financiers, chiefly Jewish: the liquor trade, Stock Exchange, large commercial businesses, press (they control both the organs of agitation and the Government organ), and loan and mortgage business.
An organised syndicate operates through all the little towns, lending sums of money or furnishing credit, and thus obtaining mortgages upon Boer farms. A very large proportion of Transvaal farmers are as entirely in the hands of Jewish money-lenders as is the Russian moujik or Austrian peasant.
published by andie531 on Wed, 2011-03-02 02:02
The postal services of Liberia, Gambia and Sierra Leone will simultaneously issue a set of three commemorative postal sheets on Tuesday in memory of 12 Jews – men and women – who fought Apartheid and racism in Africa.
published by Tom Sullivan on Wed, 2010-05-26 08:12
published by Tom Sullivan on Wed, 2010-05-05 22:02
As fellow South African Jews, we were deeply dismayed by your report on Gaza, which reproduced the UN's bias against Israel
Avrom Krengel, The Guardian "Comment Is Free", 5 May 2010
In the past three weeks the Jewish people have commemorated two of the most important events in their 4,000 year history. On 11 April we commemorated Yom Hashoah.
published by Tom Sullivan on Sat, 2010-05-01 22:17
Message by Desmond Tutu on behalf of The Elders On the Occasion of the Fifth Annual Bil'in Conference on Popular Resistance.
Dear Friends,
On behalf of the Elders, I send warm greetings to all of you attending the Bil'in Fifth Annual Conference on Popular Resistance. We are sorry that we could not be with you in person but we want you to know that we are very much with you in spirit.
