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Grant Arthur Gochin

Aug 27, 2026, 9:37 PM

Africa’s Universal Rule – Until Israel Acts

On 29 and 30 August 2026, the African Union convenes an extraordinary summit in Luanda devoted to conflict prevention. It arrives with an uncomfortable question hanging over it. Africa has spent years insisting that self-determination is a universal legal principle. African...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Aug 21, 2026, 1:17 AM

The Law of Unintended Consequences

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South Africa went to The Hague to make international law travel. It travelled. On 20 August it arrived back in Pretoria, carried by a Southern African movement asking for a reasoned South African answer. Disclosure: I advise the Mthwakazi Republic...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Aug 13, 2026, 8:28 PM

Evidence at The Hague. None in Pretoria.

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South Africa’s Justice Minister linked Israel to domestic unrest and the ICJ case. Her own newspaper source recorded the missing part: evidence. Disclosure: I advise the Mthwakazi Republic Party, Office of the President, on recognition doctrine and sovereignty. I cite...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Aug 12, 2026, 9:29 PM

South Africa Asked for Universal Law. It Got It.

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Pretoria went to The Hague to make principles travel against Israel. Its own pleadings explain why those principles do not stop at Israel's border — or Africa's. Disclosure: I advise the Mthwakazi Republic Party, Office of the President, on recognition...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Aug 6, 2026, 10:07 PM

Pretoria Signed for It

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South Africa demands that international law bind Israel. A letter delivered and stamped in Pretoria today asks whether it binds South Africa. A letter was hand delivered in Pretoria today. The Department of International Relations and Cooperation received it and...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Aug 1, 2026, 10:19 AM

Ceuta Exposes South Africa’s Selective Conscience

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Pretoria mobilizes law and outrage against Israel. When Africans died at Spain's African frontier, its Pan-African conscience went silent. Disclosure: I advise the Mthwakazi Republic Party on Recognition Doctrine and sovereignty. I cite its statements as public interventions, not as...

Patricia Levinson

Jul 16, 2026, 5:17 AM

Celebrating My Independence 60 Years Ago Was Lifechanging

As I celebrated America's 250th Independence Day in Florida, I could not help but think back to my own celebration of independence 60 years ago. Escaping South Africa, a country then deeply embroiled in the cruelty of apartheid and seeking...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Jul 7, 2026, 6:52 PM

The Construction of a Conspiracy Theory

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An antisemitic conspiracy theory does not begin with evidence. It begins with need. A country fails. Its ruling party hollows out institutions, public services collapse, borders turn performative, police lose authority, and unemployment becomes generational. African migrants are threatened by...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Jun 22, 2026, 5:47 AM

Afrophobia Must Be Named

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I was born in South Africa. Africa is not a cause I adopted or a vocabulary I picked up in a seminar. It is the ground I come from, and the place where my family chose a side. My aunt,...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Jun 19, 2026, 8:11 PM

South Africa’s Israel Obsession Will Not Save Migrants

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South Africa wants the world to see it as the moral prosecutor of Israel. It should first explain why African migrants are again living in fear on South African streets. The issue is no longer theoretical. Anti-immigrant groups have reportedly...

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