The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), along with pro-Palestinian organisations and partners, will host a mass rally on Saturday. During the event, participants will form a Human Chain for Peace and Solidarity for Gaza at Mandela Gardens, Beach Road, Sea Point, beginning at 14:30.
“The PSC and Mothers4Gaza call on all people of conscience to join a mass rally and form a human chain against genocide, apartheid, and the imperial forces that plunder and divide us—from Gaza to Khartoum, from the Congo to Caracas,” said the PSC.
“A 2,000 m² quilt, stitched in honour of those who have been slain, from the Cape Flats to Gaza, will form the centrepiece of our human chain. This living tapestry is our answer to the Trump–UNSC Gaza resolution: no to trusteeship, no to foreign control, and no to imperialism. From Cape Town to Palestine, we stitch our resistance together. This year, a historic moment for South Africa amplifies our solidarity,” the PSC added.
This show of solidarity comes as imprisoned Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti endures a longstanding illegal imprisonment and torture in Israeli detention.
On the day of his release, he was attacked while being transferred from Rimon Prison to Megiddo Prison in mid-September 2025. Palestinian media outlet Quds News Network reported that sources noted eight individuals from the Israeli elite Nahshon unit took part in the assault on Barghouti.
As tensions heighten in the Gaza Strip, the PSC noted that the rally echoes the global campaign, “From Mandela to Marwan: One Struggle, One Vision for Freedom,” drawing a direct line from South Africa’s past to Palestine’s present.
“We, as South Africans, know this struggle,” said a spokesperson for the organisers, Jaamia Galant. “We recognise the architecture of oppression: the administrative detention without trial, the dual legal systems, the prisons filled with freedom fighters. The system that bombed our neighbours and jailed our leaders is the same one we see today in Palestine.”
“Our freedom remains incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinian people.”
*Stay tuned to VOC’s PM Drive show as we unpack the latest on the upcoming pro-Palestine events.
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