last colonial issue in Africa Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/last-colonial-issue-in-africa/ The low down on African affairs Sun, 18 Sep 2016 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 last colonial issue in Africa Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/last-colonial-issue-in-africa/ 32 32 South Africa reiterates support for Palestine and Western Sahara https://jjcornish.com/2016/09/south-africa-reiterates-support-palestine-western-sahara/ Sun, 18 Sep 2016 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2016/09/south-africa-reiterates-support-palestine-western-sahara/ At the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Venezuela, Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane’s reiterated South Africa’s support for Palestinian statehood and self determination for Western Sahara. Her remarks at the ministerial conference will vie repeated at the summit today where she’s heading the South African delegation. South Africa’s muscular support for Palestine […]

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]]> At the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Venezuela, Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane’s reiterated South Africa’s support for Palestinian statehood and self determination for Western Sahara.

Her remarks at the ministerial conference will vie repeated at the summit today where she’s heading the South African delegation.

South Africa’s muscular support for Palestine and Western Sahara puts it at odds with the respective occupying power Israel and Morocco.

Foreign policy chief Maite Nkoana-Mashabane recalls that President Nelson Mandela said South Africa will not be free as long as Palestine is not free.

She calls Morocco’s illegal occupation of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic the last colonial issue in Africa – which is anathema to the 120-member Non Aligned Movement.

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