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Ebrahim Ebrehim was an exemplary comrade in the South African struggle for freedom, who until his death was a committed internationalist, writes Sidney Luckett.
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SOUTH Africa’s largest trade union confederation has launched a joint campaign today in support of jailed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has written to United Nations secretary-general Antonio Guterres, urging him to press for the release of Mr Ocalan.
The letter highlighted the precedent set by the UN in calling for the release of Nelson Mandela, who spent 27 years behind bars before his release in 1990.
The UN helped to establish the Nelson Mandela Rules which set out standards for the treatment of political prisoners, the letter notes.
Cosatu compared Mr Ocalan’s continued incarceration and Turkey’s brutal treatment of the Kurdish people to that of Mr Mandela and the apartheid system.
Granting an eviction order was hurtful to Judge Siraj Desai during his 25-year tenure in the Western Cape High Court. Every time he granted an order it reminded him of the evictions in District Six during the apartheid era in 1966.
As a learner at Trafalgar High, he was helpless to stop the old regime declaring District Six a white area and bulldozers flattening homes. On Monday 14 December Desai, who effectively retired last Friday, took a trip down memory lane with
Maverick Citizen.
In January 2021 Desai reaches the mandatory retirement age of 70. However, the high court went into recess on Friday 11 December and reopens late in January 2021, which means he has finished his term as a judge. He became a judge on 1 July 1995.