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by Paul Trewhela • January 2, 2026 at 5:00 am
* "[T]he Baqt treaty ... imposed an annual payment of 360 slaves on the Christian kingdom of Nubia [based along the Nile river].... By 1877, when there were said to be upwards of 6,000 slave-traders operating in the region, the British government estimated in a report to the Egyptian authorities that around 30,000 slaves per annum were being sent across the Red Sea from the East African coast to the Arabian peninsula alone." — Justin Marozzi, British historian, in his 2025 book Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World.
* "For Arabic-speakers along the Nile Valley, both the terms Nubi (Nubian) and Sudani (Sudanese), meaning black, were synonymous with 'slave.'" — Justin Marozzi, Captives and Companions.
* "A lasting and painful irony...is that the northern Arab Sudanese do not consider themselves black, reserving that pejorative term for their dark-skinned Sudanese and South Sudanese compatriots, in addition to Africans from further afield, who for centuries they enslaved." — Justin Marozzi, Captives and Companions.
* Then followed the disgraceful betrayal of the black Africans of Sudan by the government of the African National Congress, with Cyril Ramaphosa both as deputy president (2014-2018) and as president, up to today.
* "By the dying years of the twentieth century... slavery was once again thriving in Sudan. For the National Islamic Front of Omar al-Bashir, the then president of Sudan (in office 1993-2019), it was an effective weapon of war against his black southern Sudanese compatriots." — Justin Marozzi, Captives and Companions.
* "When the country split in 2011, it was estimated that over 35,000 South Sudanese people remained enslaved in Sudan. In Darfur the Janjaweed militia ran amok, committing numerous atrocities. One eyewitness, Neimat al Mahdi, recalled how the Janjaweed would enter the village of an African tribe, kill all the men and rape the women, mocking them afterwards with the age-old racial slur: 'You should celebrate, you slave. You are going to give birth to an Arab.'" — Justin Marozzi, Captives and Companions.
* "Whichever way you looked across the nineteenth-century Dar al Islam ["Land of Islam"], slavery coolly returned your gaze." — Justin Marozzi, Captives and Companions.
* Sadly, in the Qur'an, slavery is condoned and used as a justification for rape, male control of women, and other abuse.

In 2015, South Africa's ruling African National Congress refused to implement the arrest warrant issued for genocide by the International Criminal Court against Sudan's then President Omar Al-Bashir when he visited South Africa -- a "shameful failure", as reported by Amnesty International. On January 4, 2024, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa continued this alliance when he welcomed Bashir's military appointee, General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo ("Hemedti"), the commander of Sudan's murderous and genocidal militia, the Rapid Support Forces. Pictured: Al-Bashir (foreground) arrives at a press conference during a visit to Durban, South Africa, on September 3, 1998. (Photo by Odd Andersen/AFP via Getty Images)

The African National Congress (ANC) government in South Africa has a shameful record in its response to the worst genocidal and racist crisis now continuing in Africa.

"Is South Africa's voice... loud enough in addressing the recent conflict in Sudan?" asked journalist Nkanyezi Ndlovu recently. "While condemnation [of the war in Sudan] is noted, what other diplomatic steps has South Africa taken, not only as an African superpower but also as the current G20 President?"

These are crucial points, but reflecting on the people of South Africa's response to what Ndlovu accurately calls the "humanitarian crisis" in Sudan, the reality is far more damning.

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