Speaking at the launch of the 13th annual Israeli Apartheid Week, former South African President Kgalema Motlanthe expressed his support of the possibility of a democratic one state system for the future of Palestine. In his speech he pointed to Israel’s continued settlement building in the occupied Palestinian territories as the reasoning behind why a two-state solution is currently ‘unworkable’.
Addressing the South African people directly, Professor Fadi Esack insisted that South Africans must ‘ensure that Israel in its current state, as an apartheid state, no longer walks around the world with impunity and inflicts the kind of suffering that it does on to the Palestinian people’.
South Africa was similarly subject to a harsh institutionalised system of racial segregation up until the 1990's, but after persistent and continued struggles a democratic government was formed in 1994.
Israeli Apartheid week will take place all around the world between March and April. It is an international series of events that seeks to raise awareness of Israel’s settler-colonial project and apartheid system over the Palestinian people and to build support for the growing Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
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