The ANC brought Israel before the world’s court while preserving racial government, hollowing out its institutions and losing control of streets where African migrants are hunted. Across its northern border, it shields a regime whose victims it prefers not to see.

On June 14, the Mthwakazi Republic Party issued what it called a solidarity message to Mthwakazi people in South Africa. It read like an emergency survival notice: stay alert, avoid areas of unrest, secure your documents, keep emergency contacts close, make arrangements with relatives or trusted networks. 

This was not advice for Somalia or Sudan. It was guidance for Africans trying to stay alive inside South Africa – the country that has appointed itself the world’s moral prosecutor of Israel.

The warning was not abstract. Reuters reported door-to-door expulsions: crowds ordering foreigners out, migrants driven into the mountains or into municipal buildings, some of them lawful residents, children kept from school, protesters carrying knives and sticks. Mozambique reported five deaths; Ghana, Nigeria, Malawi and Mozambique began helping citizens leave, and Ghana petitioned the African Union. President Cyril Ramaphosa warned South Africans not to stop people in the street and demand papers, because enforcement belongs to “the state and the state alone” – an admission that private movements were already doing what only government may do.

This is the state that lectures Israel about civilian protection.

South Africa’s disappearing emergency

South Africa filed its genocide case against Israel in December 2023 as an emergency demanding immediate intervention. The Court has now set its reply for November 22, 2027 and Israel’s rejoinder for May 22, 2029. A slow timetable does not prove the allegations false; litigation takes years, and provisional measures are a separate question. But it exposes the gulf between the ANC’s political theatre and the case it actually filed. Pretoria mobilized the world with the language of unfolding catastrophe; when the ordinary burden of proof arrived, urgency became a matter of years.

Apply to South Africa the test it demanded for Israel. In the affected communities it cannot protect Mozambicans from being killed, cannot keep migrants’ children in school, cannot stop private groups from inspecting papers and ordering families out, and cannot prevent neighboring states from evacuating their nationals. The answer is no.

The colonialism the ANC refuses to see

South Africa’s case against Israel rests on a family of charges: occupation, domination, forced displacement, the denial of a people’s right to govern itself. The ANC casts itself as the enemy of those wrongs everywhere. Yet they sit immediately to its north, in a history it treats as an inconvenience.

The Ndebele kingdom was........

© The Times of Israel (Blogs)