Marching orders for Zionist envoy from South Africa strike a blow against anarchists |
South Africa’s groundbreaking move to declare the Zionist regime’s envoy “persona non grata” and expel him from the country, has been welcomed by Palestine’s Resistance and solidarity movements.
This step is a crucial marker of the Ramaphosa government’s principled stand to defend and uphold its sovereignty. Despite bullying and intimidation by the US, it stood firmly to resist Zionist attempts to undermine national governance.
Following the crucial intervention it made at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the current decision is yet again a courageous position that requires solidarity from all political formations, civil societies, trade unions and human rights organisations.
Having monitored the provocative conduct of the apartheid regime’s Deputy Ambassador Ariel Seidman, one is compelled to agree with the Department of International Relations and Cooperation’s (DIRCO) decision to declare him persona non grata, and issue marching orders for him to exit the country.
The series of questionable actions by him are correctly deemed by the government as “unacceptable violations of diplomatic norms and practice”, posing a threat to the country’s sovereignty.
As Netanyahu’s Hasbara (Propaganda) agent, the mischief generated by Seidman was intolerable. The sheer audacity of using the apartheid regime’s........