Ronnie Kasrils - The Case for BDS: Israel, the Palestinians and Apartheid

ANC Leaders Speak About Sanctions Against Israel - Ronnie Kastrils. P1:

Comment: This is part of four public meetings organized by BRICUP in the UK
it is titled

Israel, the Palestinians and Apartheid:

The Case for Sanctions and Boycott

speakers include:

* Ronnie Kasrils - former minister in Nelson Mandela’s ANC government and anti-Apartheid activist

* Bongani Masuku - International Secretary Cosatu - the South African trade union federation

* Omar Barghouti - Palestinian Campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions

"Manchester University, England. 7th December 2009. A public meeting takes place organised by the British Committee for Universities in Palestine (BRICUP). This clips features part 1 of former ANC Minister Ronnie Kastrils opening speech.

The aims of BRICUP are stated in a press release announcing a national tour by South African ANC leaders in support of boycott, divestment and sanctions against the Zionist state in Israel.

PRESS RELEASE

'A Boycott of Israeli Goods and Institutions the British Launch of an International Campaign

LEADING FIGURES FROM THE SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICAL AND TRADE UNION LEADERSHIP WHO WORK FOR BOYCOTT AND SANCTIONS AGAINST ISRAEL WILL JOIN PALESTINIAN BOYCOTT ACTIVIST, OMAR BARGOUTI.

The debate on sanctions against Israel is about to heat up again. This week and next, there is a major initiative in the launch of a trade union boycott movement (boycott, disinvestment and sanctions or BDS) with public meetings in London, Manchester, Leeds, Glasgow and Edinburgh.

The meetings will be addressed by one of the leading Palestinian figures in the boycott campaign, Omar Barghouti, from the Palestinian Boycott National Committee (BNC). Key figures from South Africa with their own experience of the sanctions campaign against Apartheid will also speak at the meetings.

Ronnie Kasrils, who was Minister of Water and of Minister of Intelligence Services in Nelson Mandelas ANC Government, has been a life-long fighter against Apartheid, and was a leading member of the ANC in exile. He will speak about the political and economic importance of the sanctions movement in bringing the white minority Government of Apartheid South Africa to the realization that it could not preserve white privilege forever.

Joining Kasrils will be Bongani Masuku, International Officer, and George Mahlangu, Campaign Officer, of the South African trade union federation, COSATU, speaking about the campaign against Israeli goods and cooperation in Africa, and about the role of the trade union movement internationally.

The meetings are organized jointly by the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine (BRICUP), War on Want, the Scottish Trade Union Congress (STUC), and the Palestine Society at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), and supported by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Also speaking at various of the meetings will be Dave Moxham (Deputy General Secretary of the STUC), Terry Brotherstone (General Council of the STUC), Yasmin Khan (War on Want), and Tom Hickey (National Executive Committee member of the University and Colleges Union (UCU), and a member of BRICUP)."

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ANC Leaders Speak About Sanctions Against Israel - Ronnie Kasrils Q&A

ANC Leaders Speak About Sanctions Against Israel - Ronnie Kastrils Responds to Questions:

Comment: This is part of four public meetings organized by BRICUP in the UK
it is titled

Israel, the Palestinians and Apartheid:
The Case for Sanctions and Boycott

speakers include:

* Ronnie Kasrils - former minister in Nelson Mandela’s ANC government and anti-Apartheid activist
* Bongani Masuku - International Secretary Cosatu - the South African trade union federation
* Omar Barghouti - Palestinian Campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions

"Manchester University, England. 7th December 2009. A public meeting takes place organised by the British Committee for Universities in Palestine (BRICUP). This clips features ANC leader Ronnie Kastrils responding to questions.

The aims of BRICUP are stated in a press release announcing a national tour by South African ANC leaders in support of boycott, divestment and sanctions against the Zionist state in Israel.

PRESS RELEASE

'A Boycott of Israeli Goods and Institutions the British Launch of an International Campaign

LEADING FIGURES FROM THE SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICAL AND TRADE UNION LEADERSHIP WHO WORK FOR BOYCOTT AND SANCTIONS AGAINST ISRAEL WILL JOIN PALESTINIAN BOYCOTT ACTIVIST, OMAR BARGOUTI.

The debate on sanctions against Israel is about to heat up again. This week and next, there is a major initiative in the launch of a trade union boycott movement (boycott, disinvestment and sanctions or BDS) with public meetings in London, Manchester, Leeds, Glasgow and Edinburgh.

The meetings will be addressed by one of the leading Palestinian figures in the boycott campaign, Omar Barghouti, from the Palestinian Boycott National Committee (BNC). Key figures from South Africa with their own experience of the sanctions campaign against Apartheid will also speak at the meetings.

Ronnie Kasrils, who was Minister of Water and of Minister of Intelligence Services in Nelson Mandelas ANC Government, has been a life-long fighter against Apartheid, and was a leading member of the ANC in exile. He will speak about the political and economic importance of the sanctions movement in bringing the white minority Government of Apartheid South Africa to the realization that it could not preserve white privilege forever.

Joining Kasrils will be Bongani Masuku, International Officer, and George Mahlangu, Campaign Officer, of the South African trade union federation, COSATU, speaking about the campaign against Israeli goods and cooperation in Africa, and about the role of the trade union movement internationally.

The meetings are organized jointly by the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine (BRICUP), War on Want, the Scottish Trade Union Congress (STUC), and the Palestine Society at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), and supported by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Also speaking at various of the meetings will be Dave Moxham (Deputy General Secretary of the STUC), Terry Brotherstone (General Council of the STUC), Yasmin Khan (War on Want), and Tom Hickey (National Executive Committee member of the University and Colleges Union (UCU), and a member of BRICUP)."



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Ronnie Kasrils - Israeli Apartheid Week - 5 March 2009 - Carleton University

Ronnie Kasrils - 5 March 2009 - Carleton University - Israeli Apartheid Week - Part 1 on Vimeo

Ronnie Kasrils was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, 1938. His grandparents are Jewish immigrants from Czarist Russia (Lithuania). He joined the ANC 1960 after Sharpeville massacre. This led to a lifetime of political activism. Ronnie was a member of ANC's military wing at its inception in 1961. He became chief of military intelligence, operated from exile in neighboring African states and clandestinely in South Africa. For many years, he was a member of both ANC and Communist Party national executive committees. Ronnie was appointed deputy minister of defense in South Africa's first democratic government (1994-99); Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry (1999-2004); Minister Intelligence Services (2004-2008). He has retired from government and devotes himself to writing, lecturing and Palestine solidarity work. His autobiography is entitled "Armed & Dangerous" (publisher Jonathan Ball, Johannesburg).

Part 1

Ronnie Kasrils - 5 March 2009 - Carleton University - Israeli Apartheid Week - Part 1 from SAIA Carleton on Vimeo.

Ronnie Kasrils - 5 March 2009 - Carleton University - Israeli Apartheid Week 2009 - Part 2 on Vimeo

Part 2

Ronnie Kasrils - 5 March 2009 - Carleton University - Israeli Apartheid Week 2009 - Part 2 from SAIA Carleton on Vimeo.

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Ronnie Kasrils - South Africa & Palestine: Long Roads to Freedom

Ronnie Kasrils -- South Africa & Palestine: Long Roads to Freedom:

1:18:41 - Mar 28, 2009

Source: Pulsemedia.org

"Ronnie Kasrils spoke at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow on March 20, 2009 at a lecture organized by Pulsemedia.org and Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign.

- During the years of apartheid rule in South Africa, Ronnie Kasrils was a leader in the banned ANC and its military wing Umkonto we Sizwe
- Hunted by the security police, he was described by them as 'armed and dangerous'
- Kasrils served as a government minister in post-Apartheid South Africa until 2008
- Today Kasrils is an activist in the Palestine Solidarity Committee, South Africa
- The Palestine Solidarity Committee in South Africa has won dock workers there to a policy of boycotting all Israeli ships that dock in South African ports
In quotes: WORSE THAN SOUTH AFRICAN APARTHEID 'I will state clearly, without exaggeration, that any South African, whether involved in the freedom struggle, or motivated by basic human decency, who visits the Occupied Palestinian Territories are shocked to the core at the situation they encounter and agree with Archbishop Tutu’s comment that what the Palestinians are experiencing is far worse than what happened in South Africa, where the Sharpeville massacre of 69 civilians in 1960 became international symbol of apartheid cruelty.' FOUR PILLARS OF STRUGGLE 'With that moral advantag"



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Ronnie Kasrils: Apartheid, From South Africa to Israel (3 Parts)

Apartheid: From South Africa to Israel Part 1 or 3:

"Ronnie Kasrils, member of the African National Congress, said that Israel's apartheid is far worse than the South African apartheid. In his recent talk, in Vancouver, BC, he explains why this is so."

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Ronnie Kasrils discusses the violence on the Palestinians

Ronnie Kasrils:

"Ronnie Kasrils on Sabc discussing the violence on the Palestinians"



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