Not standing in solidarity with Gaza because of the need to make African conflicts visible is the wrong approach.


A C Jordan Chair in African Studies at the University of Cape Town
Not standing in solidarity with Gaza because of the need to make African conflicts visible is the wrong approach.

White South Africans realised their apartheid project was unsustainable; Israelis will, too.

Liberal colonial occupation and the massacre have never been far apart in history, writes Pillay.

Official mourning ceremonies have left a feeling of incompleteness, writes the author.
!["Yet, I also think it might be that there is a ritual of mourning and celebration that many South Africans are still to have for Nelson Mandela, and that is the ritual of burying a comrade," writes Pillay [AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/20131215101456191734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)