A demonstration, which drew
close to 1 000 people,organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign Cape Town
(PSC-Cape Town) and supported by several political parties, and religious and
solidarity groups- took place on Tuesday.
A large number of the
protesters in Cape Town were Muslim who endured the heat, while currently
fasting for the month of holy month of Ramadaan, to show their support for
Palestine. People across religious and racial lines donned the keffiyeh,
symbolic of Palestinian resistance and solidarity. They also waved Palestinian
flags during a demonstration at the gates of Parliament in the CBD.
ANC Youth League member
Busisiwe Nxumalo said: “We believe that
the illegal occupation by the Israeli government in Palestine is wrong, and
here in South Africa ourselves we’ve experienced apartheid, so we sympathise
with the people of Palestine, and we want the world to step in and do more,
because it feels like institutions such as the UN are not doing much about
this. They not doing enough to condemn this.”
By Everngelista Muza
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