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23 March 2018
Dear Friends and Comrades,
 
 
WATCH: PROMO VIDEO FOR OUR UPCOMING FASHION SHOW
Checkout our promo video produced for this weekend's High Tea and Palestine Fashion Show. Click here to watch and for more info.
 
 
SALSA PARTY IN SOLIDARITY WITH CUBA AND PALESTINE
Join the Embassies of Cuba and Palestine together with BDS South Africa and others at an Afro-Palestino-Cubano Salsa Dance event and solidarity party on Friday 23 March at 7pm (click here). The event, in solidarity with the Cuban revolution and the Palestinian liberation struggle, will take place at Sawubona Lounge (305 Fox Street, Maboneng Precinct, Joburg). Entrance is free (and includes a free salsa dance lesson), please RSVP by sending an email to info@bdssouthafrica.com. The event forms part of this year's #IsraeliApartheidWeek.
 
 
SUNDAY TRIBUNE: HINDUISM, PALESTINE & ISRAELI APARTHEID
Member of the Hindu community, Nikita Pillay, from Vereeniging, wrote this article for last week's Sunday Tribune on why she, deriving motivation from her faith, backs campaigns like #IsraeliApartheidWeek and movements such as BDS. Click here to read online.
 
 
WIN TICKETS TO MASHABELA'S "COMEDY UNDER THE SUN"
South African entertainer Mashabela Galane, who recently toured South Africa on the Palestine "Apartheid Ain't Funny" comedy tour, attracting 1000s of students at several campus events across the country, will be headlining the upcoming "Comedy Under the Sun" festival at Dries Niemandt (Kempton Park) on Saturday 24 March. BDS SA are giving away two tickets for this event , simply send us an email (info@bdssouthafrica.com) with an answer to the following question: which South African university most recently backed the academic boycott of Israel? Tickets can also be purchased online via Computicket.
 
 

 
 
 
 
FORMER SOUTH AFRICAN PRESIDENT KGALEMA MOTLANTHE MEETS VISITING PALESTINIAN AUTHOR AND BDS ACTIVISTS
On the final day of his recent South African tour, Palestinian author and activist Ali Abunimah, together with BDS activists and #IsraeliApartheidWeek organizers, met with former South African President Kgalema Mothlanthe. 
 
Last year in 2017 Motlanthe spoke at the launch of the #IsraeliApartheidWeek campaign.
 
SOUTH AFRICAN PRESIDENT CYRIL RAMAPHOSA ALSO WITH BDS "BOYCOTT ISRAEL" TOTE BAG!
Above South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa can be seen purchasing BDS material, including a BDS "boycott Israel" tote bag. Ramaphosa, addressing an event late last year, said: 

"As long as that struggle persists we will be on the side of the Palestinians…we will always be on the right side because we know what is happening there, its gross apartheid taking place there and we cannot but countenance a situation which is a duplicate or replica of what we went through, that we are not going to apologise for.” Click here for a video clip of President Ramaphosa speaking on Palestine and Israel's "gross Apartheid".

 
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