Africa-Press – South-Africa. XShe didn’t know “how government must account for people who are coming to attend private conferences hosted in the country”.
“If they meet government, we will announce — but so far we have no schedule of meeting them.”
Hamas announced on Wednesday a three-member senior delegation was in the country to participate in the Fifth Global Convention of Solidarity with Palestine which starts in Johannesburg on Saturday.
While in the country, the group — comprising politburo member Bassem Naim, Hamas representative in Iran Khaled Qaddoumi and Hamas international relations director for East, Central and Southern Africa Emad Saber — will meet representatives of political parties, civil society groups and the Palestine solidarity movement to “provide updates” about Israel’s actions in Gaza and to hear South Africans’ views on the global solidarity movement and the Palestinian anti-colonial struggle.
The convention is jointly organised by the Global Campaign to Return to Palestine and the Royal House of Mandela and will commemorate the 10th anniversary of the campaign’s launch and the death of former president Nelson Mandela. The conference theme is “Nelson Mandela and Palestine: Confronting Racism till Liberation”.
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