'SA govt is lackey of imperialism'

[dArKeR]

Wendell Roelf | Cape Town, South Africa

20 May 2004 15:51

The Cape Town Anti-War Coalition (ATC) called on the South African government on Thursday to expel the Israeli ambassador as well as cut all trade and diplomatic ties with Israel, which it accuses of "ethic cleansing".

The ATC will be supporting a protest before the gates of Parliament on Friday, the day President Thabo Mbeki is to deliver his State of the Nation address.

"The main focus has been to do something ... and we must target the South African government," said ATC Western Cape chairperson Shaheed Mahomed.

Mahomed said the South African government is propping up the state of Israel, with, for example, continual weapons sales to the United States and Britain.

"The South African government is the lackey of imperialism," charged Mahomed.

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[keithyboy]

1. And well they should break ties with Israel. It was Israel who supported

the Aparteid regime, send banned weapons, funded the military when thousands of black Africans were being subjected to the muderous regime of Apartheid.

[struggle4progress]

2. I remember discussing SA with ...

several strongly pro-Israel folk in the mid-1970's. They were loudly outraged at the suggestion that we should boycott SA, who (they said) was "one of Israel's only friends." My response, that nobody in their right mind should want the apartheid regime as its friend, had no effect.