The annual Mandela Day meeting of the local Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) will hear from the former South African member of parliament Andrew Feinstein at the Advocacy Academy in Brixton on Friday (18 July).
Feinstein will talk on Apartheid Then And Now.
The meeting will discuss Nelson Mandela’s work, inspiration, and legacies, which, the PSC said, live on today in South Africa’s International Court of Justice case which accuses Israel of committing acts of genocide in Gaza in violation of the 1948 Genocide Convention.
South Africa brought the case by invoking its “obligation to prevent genocide” as a signatory to the United Nations Genocide Convention.
The son of a Holocaust survivor, Feinstein grew up in South Africa and joined the anti-apartheid African National Congress, serving in the post-liberation parliament under Nelson Mandela after being elected in 1994.
He will be speaking in the Advocacy Academy’s headquarters in Brixton Rec – the very building that Nelson Mandela visited in 1996.
Feinstein left the ANC government over major corruption issues in an arms deal in 2001 and came to Britain. He is now a leading global campaigner against corruption and the arms trade.
At the last UK general election, he stood against and came second to Labour party leader Sir Keir Starmer, who is now prime minister.
Feinstein ran as a left-wing opponent of Labour and his vote of 7,312 was greater than those of the Greens, Lib Dems, Conservatives and Reform.
Today he is recognised as a leading investigator of, and writer and filmmaker about, global corruption, and as an advocate of the rights of Palestinians and an opponent of genocide in Gaza.
He has described himself as “proudly Jewish and married to a British Bangladeshi … the son of a Holocaust survivor who lost dozens of her family in Auschwitz, where I have lectured on genocide prevention”.
He is “a socialist, an anti-racist and an anti-militarist” and on the steering committee of Stop the War, and an active participant in the Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
Tickets:
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/lspsc/1756550
The Advocacy Academy, Beehive Place SW9 7QR
Friday 18 July 7.15 – 10.30pm
The venue is wheelchair-accessible with a lift.
Wine, light refreshments and snacks will be available.
