RAISING EYEBROWS: Ramaphosa's meeting with the family of slain IDF soldier raises critical questions
The question doing the rounds is whether meeting the family of a South African citizen serving as an Israeli soldier, as President Ramaphosa did, has undermined South Africa's case against Israel at the International Court of Justice?
Equally concerning is whether the meeting will now be interpreted by South African mercenaries operating and deployed within the settler colonial regime's military, as kosher and "permissible" despite legislation that prohibits it.
Though the official version is that the Perez family had prompted a meeting to thank Ramaphosa for facilitating the release and return of Daniel Peres's remains, it is silent on who the slain soldier was.
From open source information we learn Daniel Perez was a South African-born tank commander and soldier who in battle with Palestine's liberation movement Hamas during its October 7, 2023, attempt to break free of Israel’s illegal siege, was killed and taken hostage.
