By REGINALD KANYANE
23 September 2025- The African National Congress (ANC) said it condemns the Democratic Alliance defense and continued support of the apartheid State of Israel. The party said while the United Nations just recently confirmed that what is happening against the people of Palestine as genocide, the DA has come out guns blazing to justify and support the annihilation of the Palestinian people by Israel.
The ANC national spokesperson, Mahlengi Bhengu said whilst the latest UN inquiry, headed by South African Judge Navi Pillay and through their own investigations, confirmed that Israel is intentionally destroying the reproductive capacity of the Palestinians in Gaza as a group by, among others, imposing measures intended to prevent births as well as to inflict conditions of life deliberately designed to bring about the physical destruction of Palestinians as a people, these acts have been defined as genocide by the Rome Statute and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
Bhengu said at the same time, a number of states, amongst others, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, Portugal, Mexico has recently recognized the State of Palestine lending support to the two-state solution.
“However, in South Africa we continue to see this recognition of the State of Palestine and support for the two-state solution being undermined by the DA, through its Federal Council chairperson, Helen Zille.
“Today, the ANC stands vindicated not only in its government’s pursuit of the genocide case against Israel in the International Court of Justice but also against the DA who stand for promoting crimes against humanity and genocide. How they treat the historically disadvantaged and vulnerable people of the Western Cape is testimony to their hatred of some human lives and they take their cue from the apartheid State of Israel who continues to oppress and pursue genocide against the people of Palestine,” she said.
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