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A hybrid of documentary and drama, The Voice of Hind Rajab brings the chilling real recordings of a child trapped in Gaza to the Joburg Film Festival

Tunisian film highlights the human cost of warmongering Israel

A hybrid of documentary and drama, The Voice of Hind Rajab brings the chilling real recordings of a child trapped in Gaza to the Joburg Film Festival

  • Eyaaz
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Not plain sailing: The Global Sumud Flotilla, an independent, civilian-led coalition on a mission to deliver food and medical supplies to Gaza, has been attacked. Photo: Supplied

Gaza flotilla sails on despite attacks

Along with drone attacks, the fleet faces a political campaign to delegitimise it

  • Eyaaz
5 min read
The effects of offshore gas projects contribute to a humanitarian crisis, and mainly only the companies and countries of the north benefit from the profits and commodities.

Mozambique: Gas is not part of Africa’s solution to climate change

The effects of offshore gas projects contribute to a humanitarian crisis, and mainly only the companies and countries of the north benefit from the profits and commodities

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Inkosi Mandla Mandela recalled the years when his country was an outcast, kept alive by global solidarity. Now, he said, the same must be done for Palestine. Photo: Hasina Kathrada

Mandla Mandela urges same global support for Palestine that helped free SA from apartheid

Nelson Mandela’s grandson addressed hundreds of people from over 40 countries at the launch of the Global Sumud Flotilla, a civilian mission aiming to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza

  • Eyaaz
5 min read
Nurain Saloojee comes from a family that opposed apartheid in South Africa. Photo: Hasina Kathrada

From SA to Gaza. A young activist carries on family tradition of fighting oppression

Nurain Saloojee comes from a family that opposed apartheid in South Africa

  • Eyaaz
5 min read
Swedish activist Greta Thunberg. (Hasina Kathrada)

UPDATE: Greta Thunberg accuses governments and corporations of enabling Gaza atrocities

The Swedish activist spoke from a flotilla of boats carrying doctors, lawyers, activists, organisers and social media influencers attempting to take medicine and infant milk to Gaza

  • Eyaaz
3 min read
The Samud Flotilla consists of boats from 47 countries and is a symbol of steadfastness against Israel’s occupation and the genocide in Gaza. Photo: Tan Safi/Freedom Flotilla Coalition

UPDATED: South Africans sail with largest civilian flotilla to Gaza

The convoy is carrying baby formula, antibiotics, bandages and staple foods and will test whether Israel’s blockade will again choke civilian access to the Strip

  • Eyaaz
5 min read
In the past month alone, M23 forces have conducted systematic raids on villages across the region, displacing over 150 000 people. (File photo)

DRC war: The blood-soaked path to your smartphone

The invasion and occupation of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the extraction of its natural resources, which amounts to industrial-scale theft, must be stopped

  • Des Erasmus
8 min read
A woman mourns the people killed and kidnapped on 7 October 2023 in Israel. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)

Israel marks first anniversary of Hamas’s 7 October attack

The attack claimed more than 1 200 lives, while more than 41 000 people, the majority civilians, have been killed in Israel’s war on Gaza

  • Eyaaz
6 min read