What do Gazans and Zulus have in common?
Under apartheid, Zulus were confined to KwaZulu-Natal and denied South African citizenship from 1981 to 1994. Today, about 10-12 million Zulus live in KwaZulu, preserving their language, customs, and identity amid South Africa’s multicultural landscape.
And Gazans
…..legal framework of apartheid. Human Rights Watch found that the Israeli government has demonstrated an intent to maintain the domination of Jewish Israelis over Palestinians across Israel and the OPT. Yesh Din reached this conclusion in the West Bank, specifically. B’Tselem found that Israel is maintaining a system of apartheid over Palestinians in the OPT as well as Palestinians living within its own borders.
USAID was frozen recently. The result for Zulus was:
Majola is one of millions of patients in South Africa affected by U.S. President Donald Trump’s global foreign aid freeze, raising worries about HIV patients defaulting on treatment, infection rates going up and eventually a rise in deaths.
The relief fund is currently active in seven districts in KwaZulu-Natal, five in the Eastern Cape, four in Gauteng, and several districts in other provinces across the country…….
…….HIV/Aids programmes would be most affected, as these programmes were the focal point of funding through the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (Pepfa)
https://witness.co.za/news/2025/01/29/u-s-foreign-aid-pause-a-blow-to-south-africas-hiv-aids-efforts
Today, geographical patterns of poverty on the map of South Africa still correspond to the apartheid “homelands”, barren rural regions far from cities, packed with people but with little infrastructure, no development and few jobs. Municipalities with high percentages of people living in poverty are today often found in regions that were once homelands.
https://southafrica-info.com/people/mapping-poverty-in-south-africa
And Palestinians of Gaza are, as of yesterday, cut off from food and water, whilst those who are left struggle to exist in their destroyed homeland.
https://www.israelhayom.com/2025/03/09/israel-cuts-off-electricity-supply-to-gaza/
Meanwhile Trump wants to own the Palestinian homeland and has been angry that South Africa has supported the Palestinians. He is freezing aid because he wants South Africans to stop seizing land of white farmers who stole it during colonial occupation.
The European use of the land in South African is a blueprint for later enforcement of apartheid in the US and Israel’s occupation of Palestine:
https://www.thoughtco.com/afrikaners-in-south-africa-1435512
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