International Quds Day: ANC WC pledges continued solidarity with Palestinian cause
The party joined various political and civic society organisations at the International Quds Day march in Cape Town on Friday.
Pro-Palestine supporters marching in Cape Town on 5 April 2023 to commemorate International Quds Day. Picture: Ntuthuzelo Nene/Eyewitness News
CAPE TOWN - The African National Congress (ANC) in the Western Cape says it will continue to drive and champion the mission for a free and independent Palestine.
The party joined various political and civic society organisations at the International Quds Day march in Cape Town on Friday.
The global event takes place on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan.
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Thousands of pro-Palestinian supporters marched through the streets of Cape Town to Parliament in solidarity with the Palestinian cause.
ANC Western Cape spokesperson Muhammad Khalid Sayed said the party identifies with the struggle of Palestinians.
"We most certainly identify with the call for government to impose sanctions against the apartheid state of Israel. In fact, this is in keeping with numerous conference resolutions of the African National Congress, wherein the ANC fully adopted boycott, divestment and sanctions against genocidal-apartheid Israel."
Meanwhile, the University of the Western Cape's professor Mahmoud Patel made a clarion call to pro-Palestinian supporters to continue standing up against Israel.
Addressed marchers outside Parliament, he said for more than four decades, pro-Palestinian supporters have been marching against global oppression orchestrated by zionists and imperialists.
"The concerted effort and the genocide that is unfolding is nothing more than the grand schemes and plans that were hatched by the gangsters in Washington."