Indigenous africans. Recently in angola, an israeli agri Business Corporation linked to the military obtained fertile Agricultural Land and ended using slave labor. The project collapsed and it was described as israels toxic harvest in africa. The Israeli Regime is also an agent of instability in africa. For instance, a un report reveal that israeli weapons have been used. Widely in south sudan civil war that has left hundreds of thousands dead. The tel aviv regime is also looting africas minerals. Mosad linked israeli businessman is involved in a billion dollar scandal of looting congos minerals. Now amid is genocide on palestinians in gaza. These racist Israeli Regime has turned to africa for slave labor to feel a severe labor gap in occupied territories. Unless we forget israeli rabby believes that the people of africa are monkeys. Now, does this really surprise you . Hello, im mubarak kenya and this is africa today. This week we are focusing on Israeli Regimess evil transactions in africa, so stay with us and be part of the conversation by sending us your comments through our social media handle as you watch. Israels evil transactions in africa. The list of the Israeli Regimes evil transactions in africa is endless, the most recent one is sending desperate africans to work its farms in occupied territories as part of a controversial and secret Labor Migration deal signed between malavi and the apartide regime of israel. This slave labor deal comes as many leading political figures in africa are calling for total boycott of the Israeli Regime. This is not a holy war, it is evil war by evil regime that is driven, that is driving an evil agenda. Israel is a zionist apart regime seeking to wipe palestinians off the face of the earth, palestinians who have all the rights to exist, particularly in the land of their ancestors. We therefore call on all of the world to isolate israel through byy courts, disinvestment sanction. Until the end, until they end their military occupation and allow Palestinian Refugees in surrounding countries like lebanon, syria, the right of return. For more on the Israeli Regimess evil transactions in africa, we have contacted matthew parks, he is the National Spokesperson and parliamentary coordinator of the congress of south african trade unions. Thank you for your time sir today, thank you. We also have david hundain, the founder. The west african weekly, hes a journalist and author in london. Welcome to the program. Thank you very much for having me. Now lets start off with mr. Matthew parks there in south africa. Uh, the israeli aparty regime is currently moving thousands of africans from countries such as kenya and malawi to labor cams inside occupied territories. Amid is genocidal war in gaza. So whats your view on these unfortunate move . Look, we think its unfortunate, we think that israel right now is engaged in a brutal war against the Palestinian People, and we should be minimizing contact and trade with israel, and that would include people from african countries like malawi and kenya going to work on their farms, israel needs to resolve its problems with the Palestinian People, because of in effect that many of these jobs are normally been occupied by Palestinian People, and because of the war against the palestinians, then. No longer doing it, so and hence in other words, where the israelis are employing african labor to try to displace the palestinan people, so we think its not helpful, its making matters worse, and really the all issues that israel has to resolve its relationship with the Palestinian People, we should not be looking for ways to simply subsidize israel governments behavior or to give alternatives and right now it has to address its issues. Now lets bring in mr. David hundain, im putting the same question to you, the Israeli Regime facing anexoders of zionists and workers from asia is now moving to africa for cheap labor, what do you make of these uh . Desperate move, so the unfortunate reality of running the sort of um apartite state that the um that the current israely regime runs is that when the when it so happens that the true face, the true ugliness of what it actually means to run an apart state becomes apparent to the world, it causes a lot of embarrassment and people who previously were happy to be associated. With it want to dissociate themselves, so as you rightly said, um, theres theres an exodus of people who do not want to be associated with the current actions of the israel regime in gaza and the occupied west bank, and unfortunately, it seems as if the the um, the alternative that has been adopted by the Israeli Government is not to reexamine its existing policies and perhaps look for better way of engaging with the world, but its rather to sort of entrench itself even deeper further into its historical way of viewing things, and its now sort of looking toward africa as the place that would plug the shot for, and even in the process of doing that, it is not engaging with africa with any kind of respect. I think its its very, its very opportune to point out and for everyone to remember that during the dark days of a partide. South africa, one of the very few countries on this planet that was happy to associate and do business and be affiliated with the south african apartide regime, had very cordial diplomatic relations with south african apartide regime was the israel government. I dont think thats thats a coincidence. Konwani nan, malawis opposition leader, spoke in parliament questioning the secrecy of the. Deal of sending malawians to work in israel, he described the deal as an evil transaction, he said the malawian government has gone into such an agreement with Israeli Companies when it is fully aware that there is war. Israel should really consider how does it build a healthy relationship with Palestinian People . And the said what theyre doing is is to seeking basically to expel to cleanse Palestinian People away from the territories that is controlling and in this case the seeking then to bring african laborers to to israel in their place, so when african laborers go there, the effect they basically supporting israely government, we think this is a problem, yes we have seen there are some questions often, not just in israel but other countries too across the middle east who go recruit african workers to come and work in the their countries, and often the conditions are very secret and often you see that there are real abuses of those workers rights. Israel has very dirty record. In africa, the former head of israels musad spy agency oc kohen was deported from the democratic republic of congo in 2019 after he was suspected of planning a coup against the countrys president. Additionally, a Company Controlled by israeli billionaire dan gettler is involved in massive corruption in the democratic republic of congo, where it illegally gained control of valuable mining and oil assets. Now, the poverty streak in democratic republic of congo is. Facing losses over hooping 3. 71 billion dollars. These for mr. Hondein. Now uh, what exactly uh is the Israeli Regime doing in this conflict readen country . The share mineral wealth of the jrc unfortunately makes it a target and makes it an important country for anyone who um who has an interest in manufacturing or in geopolitics and um as you wr said the um israely government has very patchy record in africa so it doesnt take much to put two and two together and suggest that based on at least based on historical precedence based on israely governments relationship for example with the south african apart regime and israely governments role in uh um supporting and even training the the the the military of the apart regime even in its operations beyond south africa as far feel that angola, namibia, mozambique, um, i dont think its too much of a stretch to suggest that something similar is a foot, so it could be an operation to take control of of conflict. Minerals, well, thanks for that, mr. Hund, lets now take a short break before we continue with our discussion on some of the evil transactions of the israeli apartide regime in africa, so stay with us. Israels evil transactions in africa. Welcome back and youre watching africa today and this weeks topic is on some of the evil transactions of the israeli apartite regime in africa. Now the Israeli Regime is also selling weapons that escalate civil wars in africa. I Un Security Council report reveal that Israeli Regime weapons have been used widely in the south sudan civil war. And by the way, israel. Devastating weapons are tested on palestinian women and children before being sold to other conflict regions. Now this is enough reason to boycott these weapons. This question is for mr. Matthew parks. Now its quite clear that uh the Israeli Regimes military industries put profits ahead of human lives in africa. Whats your view on these aspect of the evil nature of the Israeli Regime . Yes israel arms industry does fell this comp for profit to the expense of african lives just like other countries Arms Industries to also export to africa, whether its the us or the uk or france or germany, whether its russia or china, you find almost all of these arms industry across the world end up getting involved in it, so africa also has an arms industry, weve tried to avoid that going down that route, its not easy, because ultimately these arms comes want to make money like any other company, countries which are involved in internal civil wars and wars which are riven by ethnic conflict etc. Then nobody should be sending the weapons and that would for example south sudan which is really been liven by ethnic conflict sadly since it became independent about two decades ago. The israely apartite regime recognized morocco sovereignty over the disputed territory of Western Sahara. This was part of the evil deal after the. Monarchy normalized ties with tel aviv in a move that was rejected by the masses. The Western Sahara is a full member of the african union. Clearly the Israeli Regime has shown total contempt to the african union. This says a lot about the regimes attitude towards african countries. What it shows is that the government of israel as as it is showed multiple times, has very little regard, not just. For individual au member states, but for the au itself, because bear in mind that um israel has observer status at the au, which means it requested for observer status and received observer status, so it recognizes that this is a supernational, this is Supranational Organization whose decisions um to be respected, now given that the au has offered full recognition of the saharawi and arab republic or you uh Western Sahara as its otherwise known, this would imply that as an entity with observer status at the au, you are supposed to go with what the au says, the au has recognized this as a country, yes, morocco claims to have some sort of ownership claim over Western Sahara, but the au has recognized, has offered full recognition to Western Sahara full political recognition and its its its an au member right, the west Western Sahara is. Eu member state. In yet another evil deal in africa, the angolan government plout 70 Million Dollars into the 9,000 hectare project and then contracted its implementation to an israeli agriBusiness Corporation called lr group. The project linked to the notorious Israeli Military collapsed and locals say they were used as slave labor by the israelis. The Israeli Regime is using slave labor in africa. To benefit its companies under the guise of transferring agricultural technology. This says a lot about the racist nature of the israely regime. It it says what the rest of the regimes history says about it, which is that historically um israel has adopted even more um conservative line towards um african freedom and african antial activities and even some of the traditional western powers. I mentioned earlier. That asia was one of the very few countries that was happy to work with the south african government even militarily during the apartide era. The racist is rily regime even commits crimes against africans inside occupied. Now this regime admitted that it gave thousands of ethiopian women migrants shots of bath control contraceptives known as deprovera without their consent. Now this action may fit the Legal Definition of genocide. One of the women to take the controversial contraceptive speaks here at the meeting they said you dont need to give birth so many times. If you give birth lot you will suffer in life. You need a job in israel. So we said and if thats true, we will never be able to get out of here. No doubt, the Israeli Regime is inherently racist, and this has been confirmed by several political and religious figures of the regime. Its hark yourself, a senior israeli rabay believes that the people of africa are monkeys. Lets take a listen. Now last question to matthew pax, are you surprised by these racist remarks by these israeli rabi . Certainly it doesnt, the nature of the Israeli Government is based upon race, they dont give full equal rights to the Israeli Arabs who have citizenship of israel, about 20 of israel, and of course the Palestinian People who live in the occupied territories. Bank east jerusalem, gaza, dont have the rights that normal citizens would have, and of course israels righting governments have often used race, religion and so forth as a political ideology, you will find many times extreme riding politicians within the Israeli Governments also spouse really offensive statements, there was reports about deputy mayor of jerusalem also making horrendous statements and of course the conflicts makes it worse, i think part of the diff Israeli Palestinian conflict is that religion has become involved, land has become involved, so then its often you find politicians resort to racism, so really is a tragedy, i think part of the reason why the majority of the world is condemning the govern, visuals actions is because its based upon race and religion, and thats really its making matters so much more difficult and more difficult to resolve, following the Israeli Regimes genocidal war on gaza, they have. Many antiisraeli protests in africa like this one here, mine is the message to the aggressors, they subjected our brothers to work war crimes against humanity, what theyre doing today is an extermination, is an extermination of our brothers in palestine, and we say to them, no, no, no injustice, not in our era, we tell them, down, down, israel, now mr. Hone will have the last word in our program today, do you think uh the gaza conflict has laid bear the true racist and criminal nature of the Israeli Regime . Well um yes and no, yes um in in the sense that there were probably number of people over the years who have been conditioned by sort of mainstream um Media Perspectives to think of israel as something that it was not, so for many years, for example, we used to hear that israel is the only democracy in the middle east, right . So all these narratives presented the idea that you know even though they is a longstanding occupation of of of palestine of gaza, west bank gramala, but you know theres probably some explanation for it or is this extremely complicated issue that nobody . Can understand, but what the events of the last few weeks and months have showed is that its really not that difficult to understand what is happening here, that this is the same, this is a reiteration of the same kind of conflict that we saw for decades in africa, which is um colonial versus anticolonial, well there you have it, the us israeli genocide against palestinians in gaza has revealed the colonial and criminal nature of the racist. Israeli regime to african people, i like to thank our guest today, matthew parks and david hondain for their insight. Welcome to our africa rising section that focuses on interesting events in africa from innovations, achievements. In science and technology to art and culture. Today we have professor pt kentuli, the south african sculptor, poet, writer and academic. Biricanturi is living legend. He was at the frontline of the struggle against the apart regime in south africa and these led to his exile. He also continues using the language of art to fight oppression. I a soul that emerged from the stange and the gutter of oppression and breath hope in the at. Fear of despair, child of a priest and a sangoma uncle, i traversed the world of spirits and through my art. Thanks for your time, professor today, now can you tell us more about your activities in art that led to your exile . Its got a very long story, when i was in high school, recited an english poet that was very political, then i was. Not to read any political poems, then when i did for the second time then i was expelled and then from then on the Security Police got interested in me you because we were painting slogans down with the past laws down with the white regime so that attention and then was detained a couple of times and then after that realized that i wont live long, so i had to flee first into switzerland. Thank you professor for that. Now lets go to the next question, uh, briefly elaborated to us on the antiimperialism and anticolonialism messages in your works, including poems. I mean, obviously, because i was censored when i used words, then i decided that im going to use a. The sculpture and my sculptures are full of signs and in the symbols, they carry lot of you hidden you meaning you in them, they can be read at multiple levels, thats what i you to do, but for the major big works, the big monument. Like like a 20 ton mandela, those i use granite and granite is part of the soil, therefore it also is organic and therefore it links even the choice of material itself is for me not only aesthetic, it is political as well. Quite interesting indeed, professor and tuli, now can you tell us briefly what is the difference between african art and the western . Whatever we do, how people make us traditionally in our culture is totally different from what you are going to get in europe, because art or religionally is meant also as a spiritual you exercise, they also part of of religion, they are part of exchange of goods like any material thing, but ultimately they are of your spirit if spirituality is not in there, then it is just simply a commercial peace without any lasting value. Well, it is indeed interesting. Now professor, you have composed poem on palestine. Now, can you recite parts of the poem to our viewers, particularly at this juncture when palestinians are facing a us israeli genocide in gaza . Sons and daughters of palestine, in the land that is your own, but not your own. They killed a child in jeren. I went to plant a flower, but already a red flower was growing. I put my finger on the flower, it came back dripping with blood, and with my dripping finger, i drew a map of palestine and wrote free palestine, israely generals bombed the cloud. I was there. With you in your thoughts when persay so when you sit deep your pen in the eye of your child and write what it sees if you dip your pen onto a child in gaza in a today what will you see very moving indeed i would like to thank professor pt kantuli for his time today now to our viewers across africa and beyond you can be part of the program by sending stories on how africa is rising in terms of innovations, technology, art and culture and any other topical issue, so get in touch and share your story, and that brings us to the end of this weeks edition of africa today, its been great. Having you watch the show, you can uh watch this episode and all our previous episodes on our website pressv. Ir. Thanks lot for watching and goodbye for now. This is for palestine after elon musk bought twitter now known as x, he promised to restore free speech to the platform, but the multibillionaire is being squeezed by the zinist lobby to force him to reimpose censorship on commentary about palestine. 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