The ANC’s outspoken help for Palestine has featured within the elections with the get together enjoying up its efforts to carry Israel accountable by way of a case on the Worldwide Court docket of Justice (ICJ) accusing it of genocide in Gaza.
Members of the anti-apartheid battle have lengthy seen a connection between their battle and Israel’s therapy of the Palestinians, which a rising variety of main human rights teams have mentioned constitutes apartheid.
“Muslim areas in Cape City – we haven’t seen the outcomes as but, however from what we’ve got picked up simply on the bottom and engaged, there’s positively going to be an upward surge for the ANC, and the Palestinian challenge has made a large distinction,” ANC provincial spokesperson Muhammad Khalid Sayed informed the Each day Maverick, a South African information outlet.
He added that the federal government’s motive for approaching the ICJ was not for votes however “due to our dedication to human rights and our dedication to a sovereign Palestinian state”.
Learn extra about how the Gaza struggle could have influenced voters in South Africa right here.
