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As the global community watches, South Africa has reaffirmed its role as a beacon of justice and a voice for the voiceless.
More than a hundred organisations opposed the use of the sanctions authority of the US to attack an independent judicial institution dedicated to combating impunity for grave crimes against humanity.
The US sanctions package is designed to target individual ICC personnel, judges, and prosecutors, classifying it as an organisation threatening the interests of the US government.
While America’s youth are calling for an immediate ceasefire and divestment from Israel, the US continues to act as the enabler of this genocide, forcing Palestinians into even deeper levels of starvation and desperation as they fight for their very survival.
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s spokesperson Vincent Magwenya said no one was above the law.
OPINION: The atrocities committed by Israel against the people of Palestine were well-documented and communicated long before October 7 yet were ignored by the mainstream media and the Western governments, writes Reneva Fourie.
OPINION: The US, which voted against the UN Human Rights Council resolution, and Germany are the biggest sources of Israel’s weapons imports at 68% and 30% respectively, writes Dr Sizo Nkala.
OPINION: While the tide is fast turning against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the protests are primarily led by the families of the hostages still held by Hamas as well as by those involved in the internal disputes of conscription, writes Wesley Seale.
President Cyril Ramaphosa said they welcomed fresh measures ordered by the International Court of Justice on the conflict in Gaza.
Minister of International Relations Naledi Pandor said Cabinet has not discussed the closure of the Israeli embassy following the resolution of the National Assembly last year.
Minister of International Relations Naledi Pandor said she received a request to call the leader of Hamas to discuss humanitarian aid to Palestine.
President Cyril Ramaphosa said the International Court of Justice has made it clear that any planned military operations in Rafah by Israel was in violation of provisional measures issued by the court last month.
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s spokesperson Vincent Magwenya said they have made an urgent request to the International Court of Justice to intervene in Rafah.
Deputy President Paul Mashatile said Israel should abide by the decision of the International Court of Justice.
OPINION: Though the jury is out on whether South Africa requested from the court a “ceasefire” or Israel’s “suspension of military operations” in Gaza, the International Court of Justice should have gone further in ensuring that it was more forthright in its interim judgment, writes Wesley Seale.
Dire Tladi was sworn-in on Tuesday as a judge of the International Court of Justice and will serve for a period of nine years in The Hague.
Professor Dire Tladi and three other members will be sworn in on Tuesday in The Hague, after they were elected by the United Nations to serve on the International Court of Justice.
OPINION: From the outset, our interests were centred on the values and principles ofthe South African Constitution, which places a premium on the right to life, the right to dignity and the human rights of all people, writes Alvin Botes.
Minister of International Relations Naledi Pandor said she told the International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Karim Khan they will keep coming back to demand answers on the prosecution of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Minister of International Relations Naledi Pandor said South Africa has done everything that it could do and it was now the turn of the global community to act against Israel.
President Cyril Ramaphosa said they will pay attention to the UN Security Council, which is expected to discuss the judgment of the International Court of Justice.
OPINION: As South Africa’s Department of International Relations and Co-operation statement in the wake of the judgment correctly points out, given now the prima facie case of genocide against Israel “this necessarily imposes an obligation on all states to cease funding and facilitating Israel’s military actions, which are plausibly genocidal,” writes Wesley Seale.
United Nations boss Antonio Guterres said he hopes all parties will abide by the decision of the court.
El Al Israel Airlines said there has been a drop in the number of Israelis coming to South Africa.
Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula and NCOP chairperson Amos Masondo said governments and parliaments across the world must put pressure on Israel to implement the decision of the International Court of Justice.