Call for the Immediate Release of Nkosi Zwelivelile Mandla Mandela and All Humanitarian Activists Intercepted by Apartheid Israel

Mayibuye Melisizwe Mandela, officially opened a criminal case at Jeppe Police Station in Johannesburg against 49 white Afrikaners who have falsely claimed asylum in the United States based on fabricated allegations of a so-called “white genocide” in South Africa photo supplied

By Mayibuye Melisizwe Mandela

I, Mayibuye Melisizwe Mandela, add my voice to the global outcry against the unlawful and inhumane interception by Apartheid Israel of the humanitarian flotilla bound for Gaza.

Among those unjustly detained are Nkosi Zwelivelile Mandla Mandela, grandson of President Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, the courageous climate activist Greta Thunberg, and nearly 500 other activists from across the world.

These freedom-loving men and women have shown extraordinary bravery, choosing not to remain silent in the face of genocide, occupation, and apartheid.

Their mission was not one of war, but of peace to deliver aid and solidarity to the besieged people of Gaza who continue to endure unimaginable suffering under the brutality of Israel’s illegal blockade.

We must recall the words of Nelson Mandela, who declared that “our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinian people.”

Today, those words remain as urgent and true as ever.

The interception of this humanitarian flotilla is an affront not only to international law, but to the very spirit of human solidarity that Madiba lived and died for.

We demand the immediate and unconditional release of Nkosi Zwelivelile Mandla Mandela and all detained activists.

We call on the international community, the United Nations, the African Union, and progressive governments across the world to intervene without delay.

The detained activists must be granted safe passage so they may continue their noble mission to Gaza.

History will remember the courage of these activists who refused to look away.

As South Africans, we know too well that the arc of history bends toward justice but only because men and women of conscience dare to resist oppression.

The struggle of the Palestinian people is our struggle.

Their freedom is our freedom. Until Palestine is free, none of us are free.

FREE MANDELA. FREE GAZA. FREE PALESTINE.