COSATU, South Africa's largest trade union federation with over 2 million members would like to make three points regarding recent statements by South Africa's Minister for International Relations and Cooperation, Comrade Maite Nkoana-Mashabane.
It must be made clear to everyone, particularly the Israeli Ambassador in South Africa, the South African Zionist Federation, and the South African Board of Jewish Deputies that South Africa's Foreign Policy is not accountable to them or even worse the apartheid state of Israel. It is accountable to the people of South Africa who gave an overwhelming majority to the ANC as a movement that defeated apartheid to rightfully support all other struggles against occupation, colonialism apartheid and all forms of injustice wherever they happen.
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