South Africa aligns its foreign-policy with a partisan UN office to conspire against the Jewish state.

By Grant Gochin

Francesca Albanese’s October 2025 campaign in South Africa was not humanitarian diplomacy. Official records reviewed show that her visit – staged under United Nations insignia while she was under U.S. Treasury sanctions – was conceived, hosted, and protected by South Africa’s own foreign-policy machinery. Naledi Pandor, DIRCO, the Nelson Mandela Foundation, and Palestinian academic Haidar Eid converted a UN mandate into an instrument of lawfare against Israel and the democratic West that sustains it. Their collaboration marks the open fusion of state, ideology, and propaganda.

WHAT AMERICANS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT DIRCO

For an American audience: DIRCO is South Africa’s Department of International Relations and Cooperation – the exact equivalent of the U.S. State Department. It is the executive arm that controls South Africa’s foreign policy, diplomats, embassies, and international legal strategy.

Under the ruling African National Congress (ANC) – the party of Nelson Mandela that ended apartheid in 1994 – DIRCO has been transformed from a neutral diplomatic service into a political weapon purchased, owned and operated by Iran, Qatar, and Hamas.

• It filed the ICJ “genocide” case against Israel in December 2023
•  It hosts Hamas and Hezbollah officials in Pretoria
• It uses South Africa’s UN vote to shield Palestinian terror groups

DIRCO is not a think tank. It is state power – and under Naledi Pandor’s influence, it became the logistical backbone of Albanese’s sanctioned propaganda tour.

PANDOR’S POLITICAL PROTECTION: THE ARCHITECT OF CAPTURE

Files reviewed from October 2025 confirm that Naledi Pandor –  South Africa’s former Minister of International Relations and Cooperation (2019–2024) and now Chair of the Nelson Mandela Foundation – extended direct political cover for Albanese’s travel and appearances.

Pandor is not a bystander. She is the mastermind:

– She personally invited Albanese to deliver the 23rd Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture on October 25 at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg

– She introduced Albanese as a “woman of conscience and courage” – three months after U.S. sanctions were imposed on July 9, 2025, for Albanese’s illegal attempts to drag American and Israeli citizens before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague

– She moderated the post-lecture conversation, allowing Albanese to accuse 63 democracies – led by the United States—of “collective genocide” in Gaza

DIRCO officials – still loyal to Pandor’s vision – coordinated:

– Albanese’s private briefing with ANC parliamentarians (including ANC Chair Supra Mahumapelo and EFF’s Naledi Mhlongo)

– Her Robben Island photo-op – the prison where Mandela was held for 18 years – to falsely equate Israel with apartheid

– Security, transport, and press logistics for the entire tour

These same records describe DIRCO‘s “soft diplomatic cover,” including interference in foreign legal processes to shield a sanctioned UN official from accountability. Pandor’s dual role – former head of DIRCO and current moral custodian of the Mandela Foundation – made her the gatekeeper. She turned Mandela’s legacy into political currency for a sanctioned propagandist.

MANDELA FOUNDATION’S CAPTURE: FROM MORAL BEACON TO PROPAGANDA  ARM

The Nelson Mandela Foundation (NMF) is not a government agency – it is a registered Public Benefit Organization (PBO) under South Africa’s tax law, meaning it enjoys tax-exempt status like a 501(c)(3) in the U.S. It was founded in 1999 to preserve Mandela’s legacy of reconciliation, truth, and non-racialism.

Under Pandor, it has been fully captured:

– It co-branded Albanese’s 24-page report Gaza Genocide: A Collective Crime with its logo

– It amplified the apartheid analogy across its website, social media, and global newsletters

– It hosted Haidar Eid – a Gaza-based academic who uses Hamas Ministry of Health casualty figures – at a University of Cape Town (UCT) roundtable on October 28

The files show no internal dissent. The NMF functioned as an extension of Pandor’s DIRCO, not an independent civil-society body. This is state capture – a term South Africans know well from the Zuma-era corruption scandals, where government officials hijacked public institutions for private or political gain. Pandor has done the same to Mandela’s name.

DIRCO’S LAWFARE ENGINE: THE ICJ PIPELINE

DIRCO’s internal documentation reveals deliberate integration of Albanese’s messaging into South Africa’s ICJ strategy at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague – the UN’s top court for disputes between countries.

Staff notes and briefing materials show:

-Albanese’s meetings with DIRCO legal advisors were used to refine ICJ pleadings

-Her 24-page report – co-authored with Haidar Eid – was distributed to ICJ delegates as “evidence“

-DIRCO coordinated with Law for Palestine (a Ramallah-based propaganda hub) to frame the report as UN-endorsed scholarship

This is not advocacy. This is operational alignment between a UN office and a national foreign-policy war machine.

HAIDAR EID:FROM ACADEMIC TO STATE COLLABORATOR

Haidar Eid is a Palestinian academic from Gaza, formerly a professor at Al-Aqsa University (a Hamas-controlled institution) and now a research associate at the University of Pretoria – a South African state university.

He is not neutral:

– He is a leading BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) activist

– He is a founding member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) and the Palestinian BDS National Committee

– He founded the One Democratic State Group

– He was the complainant in South Africa’s ‘Al-Aqsa Docket’ – a legal case targeting Israeli officials

Albanese credits Eid as co-author of her report. DIRCO‘s Director-General Zane Dangor personally received him at OR Tambo Airport in December 2023 as a “guest of the state” shortly before the ICJ filing, stating that DIRCO would “reconnect with the returnees to debrief them and get their perspectives on events in Gaza.”

Eid’s testimony and draft text were integrated into Albanese’s UN-branded document, then fed into South Africa’s ICJ case.

In effect, South Africa imported a partisan activist, gave him state hospitality, and used him to launder Hamas propaganda as UN evidence!

“COALITION FOR GOOD”: AL QARADAWI’S BLUEPRINT REBORN

Albanese, Pandor, and DIRCO intersect again in the Coalition for Good (CFG) – a South African NGO chaired by Dr. Imtiaz Sooliman of Gift of the Givers (South Africa’s largest Muslim charity).

CFG‘s structure and membership mirror Yusuf Al-Qaradawi‘s Union of Good – a global network designated by the U.S. Treasury in 2008 for financing Hamas.

– Pandor is listed as an “esteemed member”

– Albanese was photographed wearing the CFG pin during her October 2025 appearances

– Sooliman publicly stated he invited Albanese to join the Coalition

– CFG‘s fundraising drives were synchronized with Albanese’s report launch and ICJ milestones – promoted as “humanitarian aid” but aligned with lawfare objectives

Sooliman accompanied Albanese to every appearance during her South Africa tour, including on flights between cities.

This is not charity. This is Islamist political infrastructure operating under South African state protection.

FROM MANDELA TO MECHANISM: THE FINAL BETRAYAL

The transformation is complete.

– Pandor’s DIRCO supplies the state machinery

-The captured Mandela Foundation supplies the moral façade

-Albanese supplies the UN branding

-Eid supplies the Hamas-sourced content

Each node reinforces the others. The product is a seamless propaganda loop that uses the language of human rights to launder political warfare – and seeks not coexistence, but Israel’s erasure.

BREAKING THE ALIGNMENT: ACTION REQUIRED

The evidence warrants formal scrutiny, not silence.

The UN must:

-Suspend Albanese’s mandate pending investigation into state coordination and external funding violations

The U.S. Treasury must:

– Impose secondary sanctions on the Nelson Mandela Foundation and DIRCO officials involved in hosting sanctioned individuals of the Coalition for Good and Gift of the Givers for platforming a sanctioned individual

– Revoke U.S. tax-exempt status for any American donor to the Nelson Mandela Foundation, which is now operating as an agent of Hamas

South Africa’s SARS (tax authority) must:

– Revoke the NMF‘s PBO tax-exempt status for political campaigning and sanctions evasion

Global donors must:

In the interests of preserving the true legacy of Mandela, withdraw from any entity bearing his name where Naledi Pandor exercises control.

Pandor and DIRCO have converted diplomacy into propaganda. The Mandela Foundation has converted history into a megaphone and Haidar Eid has converted scholarship into political warfare.

Together, they have turned South Africa into the African staging ground of a global campaign against democracy itself.

Free Mandela’s legacy.

Defund Pandor’s machine. Now.

About the writer:

Grant Arthur Gochin currently serves as the Honorary Consul for the Republic of Togo. He is the Emeritus Special Envoy for Diaspora Affairs for the African Union, which represents the fifty-five African nations, and Emeritus Vice Dean of the Los Angeles Consular Corps, the second largest Consular Corps in the world. Gochin is actively involved in Jewish affairs, focusing on historical justice. He has spent the past twenty five years documenting and restoring signs of Jewish life in Lithuania. He has served as the Chair of the Maceva Project in Lithuania, which mapped / inventoried / documented / restored over fifty abandoned and neglected Jewish cemeteries. Gochin is the author of “Malice, Murder and Manipulation”, published in 2013. His book documents his family history of oppression in Lithuania. He is presently working on a project to expose the current Holocaust revisionism within the Lithuanian government. Professionally, Gochin is a Certified Financial Planner and practices as a Wealth Advisor in California, where he lives with his family. Personal site: https://www.grantgochin.com/

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