In the wake of South Africa’s powerful and comprehensive presentation of the case of the genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza, South Africans have been freshly reminded of their identity. At a rally in Cape Town yesterday, Nelson Mandela’s grandson Mandla Mandela told the crowd: “My grandfather always regarded the Palestinian struggle as the greatest moral issue of our time.”
Ndileka Mandela, the former President’s granddaughter spoke with RT on Jan. 12, which reported: “Remembering the era of South African apartheid, when a white minority relegated all other ethnic groups to a sub-class, Mandela explained why Pretoria supports the people of Palestine, saying ‘these are the people that were in the dungeon with us during apartheid and supported us … without their freedom we are, honestly, not free.’ She said that South Africa has ‘the authority to be able to intervene’ because it’s ‘a best-case study, [demonstrating] best practice of how we [Africans] gained our democracy. We are a good case study of a democratic dispensation across Africa that was recorded without bloodshed.”
