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President of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, President of China Xi Jinping, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi and Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov pose for a BRICS family photo during the 2023 BRICS Summit at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg. Photo by GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/POOL/AFP via Getty Images

Brics leaders call for immediate truce in Israeli-Hamas war

China demanded an end to ‘collective punishment’ inflicted on Gaza, at a virtual summit chaired by President Cyril Ramaphosa

  • Emsie Ferreira
3 min read
Members of South African Jews for a Free Palestine protest in Rosebank, Johannesburg, on Wednesday, against Israel ‘committing genocide, apartheid, and settler colonialism’. Photo by Delwyn Verasamy

SA’s struggle for a role in solving Israeli-Palestinian impasse

Naledi Pandor appeared to put that at risk, but neutrality is neither a just demand nor a way to bring Israel to the negotiating table

  • Emsie Ferreira
7 min read