Press Releases
(Bethlehem, 2 June 2026)
BADIL - Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights and the Palestinian Youth Forum (PYF) concluded their eleven-day speaking and learning-exchange tour in Johannesburg, South Africa, held between 20-31 may 2026.
The delegation included five PYF members (2 females, 3 males), in addition to 3 of BADIL’s team, who participated in an intensive program aimed at enhancing the knowledge on South Africa’s struggle against apartheid, its ongoing political, social, and economic effects, and to strengthen the solidarity between both the Palestinian and South African struggle.
The tour’s program included a range of contributions and interventions by Forum members, which highlighted a range of Palestinian issues, particularly those affecting the youth, through presentations and interventions within workshops, meetings, and in-person seminars at the University of the Witwatersrand, the University of Johannesburg, and others.
Participants also engaged in different meetings with academics, human rights advocates, activists, grassroots movements, civil society organizations, and groups in solidarity with Palestine. These meetings addressed issues of political and popular struggles against Apartheid, specifically focusing on students’ movements, in addition to the case of reparations, and multiple field visits to historical sites.
In addition, BADIL and the PYF members attended a three-day conference on the 1976 Soweto students’ uprising, where speakers discussed the role of students’ movements in national liberation struggles from colonization and apartheid.
This visit comes as part of BADIL’s program aiming at enhancing the knowledge and skills of the youth, in the framework of the Palestinian Youth Forum, as a result of intensive training sessions that are still ongoing. In addition to the mobilization and networking campaigns between BADIL and its partners in South Africa, to enhance communication with the Palestinian solidarity movement.
