Leila Khaled ... South Africa Tour

Leila Khaled South Africa Fundraising Speaking Tour

This February support BDS South Africa and dine with the remarkable living legend, Leila Khaled. Between the 5th and 14th of February 2014 Leila Khaled will be in several South African cities on a BDS South Africa Fundraising Speaking Tour.

Leila Khaled has been dubbed "the poster girl of the Palestinian struggle". Khaled's image flashed across the world after she hijacked a passenger jet in 1969 and made world history by becoming the first woman to hijack an airplane. The picture of a young, determined looking woman with a checkered kuffiyah scarf, clutching an AK-47, was as era-defining as that of Che Guevara, Ruth First and other political figures from our recent past. Click here for a Guardian Newspaper interview with Leila Khaled: http//www.theguardian.com/world/2001/jan/26/israel

PRETORIA/JOHANNESBURG
Friday, 6 February 2015
Time: 18h30
Venue: Al Gazali Hall, Erasmia, Pretoria
Contact: 0824179338
Co-hosts: Caring Womens Forum & Benoni Spurs F.C.
Dinner Tickets: Between R150-R500 (includes complimentary "Leila Khlaed: Hijacker" DVD)

RUSTENBURG
Saturday, 7 February 2015
Time: 18h00
Venue: Rustenburg Civic Centre, Rustenburg
Contact: 0838708928
Co-hosts: Passion to Care and Rustenburg Palestinian Solidarity Forum
Dinner Tickets: Between R150-R500 (includes complimentary "Leila Khlaed: Hijacker" DVD)

PORT ELIZABETH
Sunday, 8 February 2015
Time: 13h00
Venue: The Garden Lovers Centre, Running Waters, Kragga Kamma Road, PE
Co-hosts: From PE to Palestine (PSA PE) and FFP - Freedom for Palestine
Contact: 0826121657
Lunch Tickets: Between R150-R500 (includes complimentary "Leila Khlaed: Hijacker" DVD)

DURBAN
Tuesday, 10 February 2015
Time: 18h30
Venue: NMJ Hall, Overport, Durban
Contact: 0835557143
Dinner Tickets between R150-R500 (includes complimentary "Leila Khlaed: Hijacker" DVD)

NEWCASTLE
Wednesday, 11 February 2015
Time: 18h30
Venue: Pumulanathi Hall, Newcastle
Contact: 0827865444
Dinner Tickets between R150-R500 (includes complimentary "Leila Khlaed: Hijacker" DVD)

CAPE TOWN
Thursday, 12 February 2015
Time: 18h30
Venue: Darul Islam School, Surrey Estate, Green Haven
Co hosts: Al-Quds Foundation SA and MJC
Contact: 0794945786
Tickets between R150-R500 (includes complimentary "Leila Khlaed: Hijacker" DVD)

POLOKWANE
Friday, 13 February 2015
Time: 19h00
Venue: Polokwane Royal, Polokwane
Co-hosts: PLK for Palestine
Contact: 0823333755
Tickets between R150-R500 (includes complimentary "Leila Khlaed: Hijacker" DVD)

NELSPRUIT
Saturday, 14 February 2015
Time: 18h30
Venue: Mbombela Council Auditorium, Nelspruit
Contact: 0827868906 (includes complimentary "Leila Khlaed: Hijacker" DVD)

"I have learned that a woman can be a fighter, a freedom fighter, a political activist, and that she can fall in love, and be loved, she can be married, have children, be a mother."
- Leila Khaled a wife, mother, plane hijacker and Palestinian freedom fighter.

"Leila Khaled shattered a million and 1 taboos overnight and she revolutionised the thinking of hundreds of other angry women around the world." - Eileen Macdonald author of the book "Shoot the Women First"