we stand with the people of Palestine, and their liberation from the ongoing violence of Apartheid.
calling for an immediate stop to the genocide, the occupation, and for a ceasefire.
South Africa Solidarity Soundsystem
“From the youth of 1976 with nothing but stones to defend themselves, to those in the West Bank – we send love.
From pass-laws to military checkpoints, we recognise your fight for humanity.
From the coast of the Cape, to the coast of Gaza – we pray for peace.
From District Six to Sheikh Jarrah – we stand with you.
FREE PALESTINE.”
- writer, journalist & DJ, Atiyyah Khan’s statement for the South Africa - Palestine Solidarity Soundsystem, 2021.
[a 24-hour radio broadcast for Radio Alhara’s Sonic Liberation Front programme - held after the 2021 Gaza attacks - featuring local DJs, artists and music collectives in solidarity with the Palestinian’s ongoing resistance against Apartheid.]
this is a directory of humanitarian assistance and solidarity campaigns; texts; sounds & videos that centre around the intersections of resistance, cultural production, and more.
we will regularly update this list as we find more works.
we urge you to engage this list critically and with compassion.
Palestine
Action
Colours of Hope
a South African humanitarian aid assisting with food, medical supplies and support for affected Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Gift of The Givers
one of the continent’s largest disaster response NGO’s is currently delivering essential medical assistance, supplies and food to affected individuals in Gaza. follow the link to support their work.
Salaam Foundation
this group is providing hot meals to affected people in the Gaza Strip.
SA BDS Coalition
the SA BDS Coalition is a network of local Palestine solidarity organisations working to raise awareness about Israel’s illegal systems of occupation and apartheid.
for a list of boycott campaigns, updates on Palestine solidarity initiatives around South Africa, and the principles they stand by - visit their website.
Luthuli House & the Department of International Relations & Co-Operations
help by calling either Luthuli House and DIRCO - demanding the removal of the Israeli ambassador; and the South African mission to come home.
In both 2010 and 2018, we recalled SA missions in Israel to do so - and assisted in affirming the nation’s stance against past atrocities in Palestine.
Medical Aid for Palestinians
MAP is another group that is delivering urgent and essential medical care and supplies to the affected Palestinians and hospitals.
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Rashid Khalidi & Michelle Alexander in Conversation on Palestine
Hosted in November 2023, the Palestine Festival of Literature hosted an event titled: But We Must Speak: On Palestine and the Mandates of Conscience.
in this video, they invite Professor Rashid Khalidi to engage in conversation with National Book Award winning author Ta-Nehisi Coates. Moderated by Michelle Alexander, the acclaimed civil rights lawyer and author of The New Jim Crow, - they discuss their personal to Palestine, the importance of resisting against the Apartheid system, and more.
Resource Materials
Majazz Project / Palestinian Sound Archive [Audio]
Mo’min Swaitat’s Majazz Project is an archival record label, alternative research platform, and radio show that shares vinyl, cassettes, and field recordings from Palestine and beyond.
his latest broadcast on NTS Radio features an hour of field recordings from Jenin, Ramallah, Tulkarm and Jerusalem - taken since recent violent events in the West Bank.
The Free Palestine Library [Text]
from essential Palestinian texts to black radical thought, critical & political theory, and cookbooks - this collection, compiled by Izidhar Afyouni, is a vast collection of texts on all aspects of life in Palestine, the ongoing struggle against Apartheid, history and beyond.
Until Liberation: Learn Palestine [Audio]
12 hours of lectures, interviews, book presentations, talks, storytelling, music, songs, poetry and chants - compiled by Learning Palestine Group.
Archiving Black Palestinian Solidarity: Visions of Liberation 1968-2021 [Video]
This video is a presentation of archival material on key moments of solidarity between Black American and Palestinian political movements from 1968 to 2021.
Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question [Text & Images]
conceived and produced by the Institute for Palestine Studies and the Palestinian Museum - this project traces the history of modern Palestine, from the end of the Ottoman era to the present.
offering detailed accounts of milestones & events; biographies of influential people and places that have all shaped Palestinian history.
Palestinian Cinema Archive [Video]
a YouTube channel dedicated to archiving Palestinian films - including Mustafa Abu Ali’s seminal ‘74 film, They Do Not Exist.
Texts, Images & Archives
Further Considerations on Afrofuturism
writer, theorist and filmmaker Kodwo Eshun reflects on the histories and trajectories of Afrofuturism and its functions as a genre to imagine new futures, and process the becoming present.
Black Music Under Apartheid
accompanied by an audio mix - writer, DJ and journalist, Atiyyah Khan explains how music has been a battlefront for Apartheid South Africa and the Black liberation movement against the white supremacist settler colony.
Dweller Library
this list - compiled by the New York-based festival and blog that centres black electronic music and perspectives - features articles, interviews, and documentaries surrounding techno, house, and their shared social history.
The Sound of Solidarity
this article profiles Palestine’s Radio Alhara, and their efforts to make radio a sonic public space for communities around the world to share music, express solidarity, and connect in a way that transcends borders and systems of occupation.
Afropessimism and The Rituals of Anti-Black Violence
an essential three-part conversation between art historian and lecturer, Zamansele Nsele, and the American poet, filmmaker, critic & author, Frank B. Wilderson III. They discuss his ideas around Afropessimism - a lens that takes anti-Blackness as the structural antagonism on which the world as we know it, has been built on.
To Accelerate Time: Reflections on Art-Making in Post-invasion Iraq
this piece is a reflection by a group of artists & filmmakers who were part of Sada - a Baghdad-based arts and education project.
they reflect on the importance and challenges they face in making art through a time of ongoing war.
Audio
Radio, Race & Genre in South Africa
produced by artist, researcher and vinyl selector, Zara Julius’ KONJO project - this podcast episode looks at music’s role in the retribalisation project of the apartheid regime.
through the South African Broadcasting Corporation’s Radio Bantu, Gallo Music’s African music imprints, and other avenues - this unpacks the impact it had on local conceptions of language, as well as what was deemed “African” music.
Until Liberation: Learn Palestine
12 hours of lectures, interviews, book presentations, talks, storytelling, music, songs, poetry and chants - compiled by Learning Palestine Group.
Video
Music’s Resistance: Revolution in Daily Life
this video features two talks - Benjamin Piekut’s “Echoes of October - Echoes of May: Listening for Another Future in 1970s London” and Fumi Okiji’s “’Black and blur’: Adorno and the Radicalism of Jazz Syncopation”.
After Robot: Kwaito Music in Johannesburg
as one of the earliest sounds to emerge from black youth, post-Apartheid - this documentary showcases Kwaito’s force as a cultural and social movement in the late 00’s - early 10’s, and the new perspectives it gave for young South Africans to take into the future.
No Middle Road to Freedom
the 1984 Kevin Harris-directed documentary hones in on the South African Defence Force’s violent attack on suspected ANC members exiled in Maseru - and offers a lens to show the injustice, violence and senselessness of the Apartheid system.
Have You Heard From Johannesburg?
this documentary by Connie Field looks into the history of the global anti-apartheid movement that opposed South Africa’s entrenched apartheid regime.