The generation of 1976, which shook the word with its grassroots education and mobilisation, has grown up. This generation’s mass movements can learn from its elders
Breaking the Israel-Palestine Status Quo
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Summary: A new U.S. approach should prioritize protecting the rights and human security of Palestinians and Israelis over maintaining a peace process and attempting short-term fixes.
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Resetting U.S. Policy
After decades of on-and-off negotiations and failed peace initiatives, it is time for a shift in U.S. policy toward Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking. Jettisoning former president Donald Trump’s Peace to Prosperity plan is a vital step, but it will not be enough to move beyond the status quo. Instead of reviving a moribund peace process or simply abandoning U.S. engagement, President Joe Biden’s administration should place a rights-based approach at the center of its strategy.
10 April 2021, 7:28 PM | Vanessa Poonah | @SABCNews
Image: SABC News Western Cape Memorial benches have been unveiled at Jubilee Square in Simon s Town in Cape Town to mark the forced removal of people during the apartheid era.
A website and memorial mosaic benches have been unveiled at Jubilee Square in Simon’s Town in Cape Town to mark the forced removal of people under the apartheid era’s Group Areas Act.
Simon’s Town was declared a white area in 1967, although forced removals started taking place two years earlier.
Residents from Luyolo, Red Hill, Dido Valley and Glencairn were forcefully relocated to the Cape Flats.
Young activists: a thin chapter in the history curriculum
By Catherine Sofianos on 8 March 2021
“But Ma’am, we’ve done it so many times before,” – so goes the annual refrain from the chorus of learners – when first confronted with the prospect of learning about apartheid as they reach the second half of Grade 9 in many history classrooms countrywide. It happened, yes, of course it did, but now it’s in the past. We’re united now, with our multilingual anthem and colourful national flag. We need to learn about apartheid, a teacher may plead with a class, because we don’t want to make the same mistakes again. Because it teaches us about human rights abuses, and about how we shouldn’t judge each other according to the colour of our skin. And with that, almost half a century (to say nothing of the ones which came before) is trivialised in a moment of didactic opportunism and professional vulnerability.