The department of international relations and cooperation (Dirco)has strongly condemned violence between Israel and Palestine which has claimed hundreds of lives.
mckenzie in johannesburg. david, tell us about the reaction there. cyril, across the continent people have been outraged by this comment. and what has been interesting is this outrage has lasted for several days. and you ve had i think the governments following on from the queue of different citizens and countries on social media and elsewhere have really kind of condemned the president of the united states. so in a way, the governments are playing catch-up to the people. here in south africa, the department of international relations and cooperation bringing in the head of the embassy for what seen as a dressing down, asking that person or that head to really explain the comments of the president of the united states, that they say could be seen as racist. and that s generally the consensus that i have seen across the continent. while that s not unprecedented to have this demosh or the calling in the head of the