This week, South Africa presented its case against Israel accusing it of carrying out a genocide against the people of Gaza, amid a relentless war waged for over three months which has killed over 23,000 people. South Africa was governed by the apartheid system for decades form 1948 until the early 1990s, with racial segregation and discrimination institutionalised and the white minority dominating the country socially, politically and economically. Israel’s occupation and wars on the Palestinian territories and its treatment of the Palestinian people have been likened to the apartheid era in …