President Cyril Ramaphosa told the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) that South Africa lived and experienced apartheid hence it will not remain silent and watch as apartheid is perpetrated on Palestinian people .
Ramaphosa delivered his speech before the UNGAs annual high-level debate on Tuesday.
'The violence the Palestinian people are being subjected to is a grim continuation of more than half a century of apartheid that has been perpetrated against Palestinians by Israel.
'We South Africans know what apartheid looks like. We lived through apartheid. We suffered and died under apartheid. We will not remain silent and watch as apartheid is perpetrated against others,' Ramaphosa said.
He added that its been 11 months since the Hamas attack killed over 1,000 people and some people were taken hostage this attack was strongly condemned by South Africa.
