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sleepy-blr · 2 years

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all my history note pages in one place

(sorry ive disappeared a bit, ive been forgetting to document things, but i have a few things ready to post now!)

#vce #vce unit 1/2 #vce history #vce modern history #the cold war #civil rights movement USA #apartheid in south africa #studyblr #sleepy blr study

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kaapstadgirly · 5 months

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"We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians."

~ Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela.

#my people #southafrica4palestine #palestine #free palestine #free gaza #free west bank #gaza #gaza strip #israel #social justice #human rights #apartheid #genocide #middle east #south africa #the starbucks boycott is for life #jerusalem #tel aviv #🇿🇦🫶🏻🇵🇸

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linusjf · 2 months

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Nelson Mandela: Head and Heart

Image via Wikipedia “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.” —Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel laureate (b. 1918).

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#1918 #activist #African National Congress #Apartheid in South Africa #heart #nelson mandela #nobel laureate #nobel peace prize #President of South Africa #South Africa #south african president

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fursasaida · 5 months

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This article is from 2022, but it came up in the context of Palestine:

Here are some striking passages, relevant to all colonial aftermaths but certainly also to the forms we see Zionist reaction taking at the moment:

Over the decade I lived in South Africa, I became fascinated by this white minority [i.e. the whole white population post-apartheid as a minority in the country], particularly its members who considered themselves progressive. They reminded me of my liberal peers in America, who had an apparently self-assured enthusiasm about the coming of a so-called majority-minority nation. As with white South Africans who had celebrated the end of apartheid, their enthusiasm often belied, just beneath the surface, a striking degree of fear, bewilderment, disillusionment, and dread.

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Yet these progressives’ response to the end of apartheid was ambivalent. Contemplating South Africa after apartheid, an Economist correspondent observed that “the lives of many whites exude sadness.” The phenomenon perplexed him. In so many ways, white life remained more or less untouched, or had even improved. Despite apartheid’s horrors—and the regime’s violence against those who worked to dismantle it—the ANC encouraged an attitude of forgiveness. It left statues of Afrikaner heroes standing and helped institute the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which granted amnesty to some perpetrators of apartheid-era political crimes.

But as time wore on, even wealthy white South Africans began to radiate a degree of fear and frustration that did not match any simple economic analysis of their situation. A startling number of formerly anti-apartheid white people began to voice bitter criticisms of post-apartheid society. An Afrikaner poet who did prison time under apartheid for aiding the Black-liberation cause wrote an essay denouncing the new Black-led country as “a sewer of betrayed expectations and thievery, fear and unbridled greed.”

What accounted for this disillusionment? Many white South Africans told me that Black forgiveness felt like a slap on the face. By not acting toward you as you acted toward us, we’re showing you up, white South Africans seemed to hear. You’ll owe us a debt of gratitude forever.

The article goes on to discuss:

"Mau Mau anxiety," or the fear among whites of violent repercussions, and how this shows up in reported vs confirmed crime stats - possibly to the point of false memories of home invasion

A sense of irrelevance and alienation among this white population, leading to another anxiety: "do we still belong here?"

The sublimation of this anxiety into self-identification as a marginalized minority group, featuring such incredible statements as "I wanted to fight for Afrikaners, but I came to think of myself as a ‘liberal internationalist,’ not a white racist...I found such inspiration from the struggles of the Catalonians and the Basques. Even Tibet" and "[Martin Luther] King [Jr.] also fought for a people without much political representation … That’s why I consider him one of my most important forebears and heroes,” from a self-declared liberal environmentalist who also thinks Afrikaaners should take back government control because they are "naturally good" at governance

Some discussion of the dynamics underlying these reactions, particularly the fact that "admitting past sins seem[ed] to become harder even as they receded into history," and US parallels

And finally, in closing:

The Afrikaner journalist Rian Malan, who opposed apartheid, has written that, by most measures, its aftermath went better than almost any white person could have imagined. But, as with most white progressives, his experience of post-1994 South Africa has been complicated. [...]

He just couldn’t forgive Black people for forgiving him. Paradoxically, being left undisturbed served as an ever-present reminder of his guilt, of how wrongly he had treated his maid and other Black people under apartheid. “The Bible was right about a thing or two,” he wrote. “It is infinitely worse to receive than to give, especially if … the gift is mercy.”

#south africa #apartheid #colonialism #palestine

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kropotkindersurprise · 6 months

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November 24/25/26, 2023 - Despite the temporary ceasefire the people of the world are still taking to the streets everywhere in huge numbers to demand an enduring end to Israel's occupation and genocide of the Palestinian people. Here is a small selection of the solidarity demonstrations this past weekend. People are not letting themselves be tired out or distracted, Palestine is not alone!

Havana, Cuba

Durban, South Africa

Ottawa, Canada

Tokyo, Japan

Jakarta, Indonesia / Doha, Qatar

Tangier, Morocco

Copenhagen, Denmark / Sydney, Australia

Nicosia, Cyprus / Paris, France

New York City, USA / London, UK

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sayruq · 4 months

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South Africa says it has asked the World Court to consider whether Israel’s plan to extend its offensive in the Gaza Strip into the densely populated southern city of Rafah requires additional emergency measures to protect Palestinians.

#yemen #jerusalem #tel aviv #current events #palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #news on gaza #palestine news #news update #war news #war on gaza #south africa #icj #icj ruling #apartheid

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odinsblog · 4 months

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BREAKING NEWS: The International Court of Justice finds that there is sufficient basis for South Africa’s case against Israel and will not dismiss the case as Israel requested.

This is truly an historic moment.

Very well done, South Africa 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

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4ft10tvlandfangirl · 4 months

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So the South African Foreign Affairs Minister Dr. Naledi Pandor and her family are being threatened for her (& South Africa's) support of Palestine. Surprise surprise western media hasn't said a thing about it.

"I think one of the things we must not allow is a failure of courage."

She has my respect, truly. God protect this woman and her family ��🏾

#naledi pandor #south africa #palestine #solidarity #gaza #israel is an apartheid state #israel is a terrorist state #icj ruling #international law #anti apartheid #free gaza #free palestine #current events

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heritageposts · 5 months

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Secret South African documents reveal that Israel offered to sell nuclear warheads to the apartheid regime, providing the first official documentary evidence of the state's possession of nuclear weapons. The "top secret" minutes of meetings between senior officials from the two countries in 1975 show that South Africa's defence minister, PW Botha, asked for the warheads and Shimon Peres, then Israel's defence minister and now its president, responded by offering them "in three sizes". The two men also signed a broad-ranging agreement governing military ties between the two countries that included a clause declaring that "the very existence of this agreement" was to remain secret. The documents, uncovered by an American academic, Sasha Polakow-Suransky, in research for a book on the close relationship between the two countries, provide evidence that Israel has nuclear weapons despite its policy of "ambiguity" in neither confirming nor denying their existence.

. . . continues at the guardian (24th of may, 2010)

here's also a research paper published in 2004, which, looking at declassified south african documents, lays out apartheid south africa's rational for acquiring nuclear weapons (bombing, or 'deterring,' black liberation groups):

#palestine #israel #gaza #south africa #just thought i'd bring this back up with the ICJ hearings #the relationship between israel and apartheid south african was interesting to say the least #and yes israel has nukes; this is an open secret that the western world has collectively decided to turn a blind eye to

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takeme2europe · 6 months

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#South African #jerusalem #israel #South Africa #gaza #israeli apartheid #israel is an apartheid state #free palestine #palestine #فلسطين #free gaza #gaza under attack #gaza under genocide #i stand with palestine

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mysharona1987 · 4 months

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#israel #news #palestine #south africa #free palestine #icj #apartheid #human rights #democracy

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totallynotcensorship · 5 months

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tags update: hamas is fifth on trending colonialism is trending too

don't stop talking about palestine

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kaapstadgirly · 4 days

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Cape Town, South Africa 📍25 May 2024

🇿🇦🫶🏻🇵🇸

#south africa stands with palestine #free palestine #palestine #gaza #free gaza #israel #gaza strip #genocide #social justice #free west bank #human rights #south africa #southafrica4palestine #tel aviv #jerusalem #middle east #apartheid #end israeli occupation

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baby-girl-aaron-dessner · 25 days

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theinconvenientlifestyle · 5 months

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#palestine #south africa #apartheid #american politics

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sayruq · 3 months

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An unprecedented number of countries and international organizations are expected to participate in the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) oral hearings on Israel’s occupation beginning February 19, 2024, Human Rights Watch said today. Fifty-two countries and three international organizations will participate in the oral proceedings, more than in any other case since the world’s highest court began functioning in 1946. The broad participation in the hearings and the many written submissions reflect growing global momentum to address the decades-long failure to ensure respect for international law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. “The International Court of Justice is set for the first time to broadly consider the legal consequences of Israel’s nearly six-decades-long occupation and mistreatment of the Palestinian people,” said Clive Baldwin, senior legal adviser at Human Rights Watch. “Governments that are presenting their arguments to the court should seize these landmark hearings to highlight the grave abuses Israeli authorities are committing against Palestinians, including the crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution.”

#yemen #jerusalem #tel aviv #current events #palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #news on gaza #palestine news #news update #war news #war on gaza #icj #icj hearing #south africa #apartheid #end the occupation

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