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By Dr: Ahmed Haroon Jazbhay The Media Review Network (MRN) strongly condemns the recent report titled Hiding in Plain Sight: A Playbook for Combating Hamas in South Africa (August 25, 2025), authored by Max Meizlish, Melissa Sacks, and David May. MRN asserts that the report is a politically motivated attempt to delegitimise South Africa’s sovereign foreign policy and criminalise its principled support for Palestinian liberation. South Africa’s engagement with all Palestinian actors, including Hamas, reflects its commitment to inclusive dialogue and peace, rooted in its own anti-apartheid legacy. The report’s framing of such engagement as “terrorist collaboration” is misleading and undermines international…

By Naledi Pandor Former minister says Muslims are a peace-loving people, who are permitted to engage in jihad when necessary Extract from speech – as transcribed – by Naledi Pandor at Langa Masjid Fundraising Gala, 24 August 2025: Our efforts at social justice should extend beyond support from outside and include a full role for beneficiary communities as builders, teachers and community leaders. Some of those who embrace Islam regard this as access to charity. We need to help unlearn that attitude and ensure that they become participants in the development opportunities that they may be fortunate to receive. The values…

Following a meeting with students and some faculty at the University of Cape Town (East), this photo was taken in late September 2024. From left, Imam Muhammad al-Asi, Zafar Bangash and Hamid Adams (Photo courtesy Abdul Mutalib). By Zafar Bangash Hamid Adams, a long-time activist of the Islamic movement, passed away early today (Monday September 1) in Cape Town, South Africa. Inna lil Lah-e wa inna ilayh-e raji‘oon. When this writer received a message from a mutual friend Abdul Mutalib this morning that Hamid Adams had passed away, I did not believe it at first. So, I sent a message…

(courtesy:https://www.thestoryoftexas.com/discover/artifacts/slave-collar-with-bells) by Hassen Lorgat first they came for the journalists, and I did not speak up, then they came for the MPs, and I did not speak up, when they came for me— a mere mortal who loved books and friendships— no one was around for me. …perhaps it is too late? now the gumboots kick down our door, unions are being smashed, for the hungry, austerity becomes our daily bread. …the immigrants are being hounded. women are still unsafe—at home, and in the streets— until no dissenting voice remains free: jailed, silenced one way…

By Iqbal Jassat Reeling from global outrage and anger against its barbaric slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza, Israel’s army of spin-doctors are desperately trying to pressure the South African government to relinquish its ground breaking genocide case at the International Court of Justice. The latest tactic by a group closely aligned to America’s security and intelligence is directed to force the ANC-led government to not only undertake a witch hunt against individuals and organisations supportive of Hamas, but to delegitimise them as “terrorists”. Shocking but not surprising because for these so-called “think tanks” linked to the shameful promotion of the…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                 Palestine Solidarity activists from across South Africa are preparing to embark on the Global Sumud Flotilla, joining a historic international coalition representing more than forty countries united in a mission of peaceful resistance to Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza. This civilian fleet, the largest maritime effort since the siege began in 2007, carries a message that resonates deeply with the people of South Africa who know from lived history that oppression can be resisted and that liberation will come when the world stands together. At the launch of the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) on Sunday, 31 August…

Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, has expressed support for the flotilla that departed from Barcelona towards Gaza on Sunday to break Israel’s illegal siege of the Palestinian territory. Albanese, in a social media post, said that activists who embarked on this journey were “moral warriors.” She also denounced the silence of the international community against the Israeli genocidal war against Palestinians in Gaza. “Forza Sumud Flotilla: you are moral warriors, where states remain inactive. And complicit,” she wrote on X. “I am…

by Richard Falk [Prefatory Note: This interview was conducted on behalf of Fayn Press by an independent Turkish journalist, Semin Gumusel, on August 19, 2025. It was published initially in Turkish and can be found at link:  https://www.fayn.press/prof-richard-falk-gazzeyi-yalnizca-halklarin-direnisi-kurtarabilir/The English version posted below has been somewhat modified, mainly for style.] Q<How can Israel and Netanyahu be stopped at this moment? That is a question that has haunted the world for the past two years, and worried peace and justice activists for a much longer time. The most obvious issue is to how to persuade the US government and EU countries to withdraw…

OPEN LETTER TO SABC NEWS Dear SABC Editorial Team, As South Africans who care deeply about justice, ethics, and the integrity of public broadcasting, we are compelled to raise our alarm regarding SABC’s coverage of the ongoing genocide in Gaza. It is unacceptable that a public broadcaster would consistently adopt language that mirrors Israeli talking points, using phrases like “allegations of genocide” or “according to Gaza health ministry”. This framing sanitizes mass atrocities, misleads the South African public, and diminishes the reality of crimes committed against Palestinians. This is not a “war“ it is a genocide, marked by: Forced displacement…

Dr Ramzy Baroud at the ‘Transnational Solidarity Amongst (Settler) Colonised People: Palestine and Beyond’ conference, at the University of Exeter’s Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies by Mohamed El Mokhtar The Palestine Chronicle is not a militant organisation. It is a modest, independent publication, sustained by small donations and animated by a singular mission: to bear witness. It tells the untold stories of Palestine, documenting dispossession, resistance, and the endurance of a people condemned to silence. In a media landscape dominated by powerful conglomerates repeating the language of governments, the Chronicle insists on a journalism of proximity — grounded in daily lives, in the rubble…