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The Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Lindiwe Sisulu hinted that South Africa could change its decision to withdraw from the International Criminal Court.
Speaking at a briefing at the Department of International Relations Wednesday, Sisulu The ICC was taken "under the previous administration", headed by former President Jacob Zuma. She said that the case "is always used continuously before the Cabinet.
A final decision has not yet been made.
Lately, there have been "other points of view" that South Africa could do more to change the skewed bias against Africa in the ICC if it remained part of it. to the Rome Statute.
"Maybe we could get married to stay there if only to make sure our voices are heard in the ICC," she said
"C & # 39 At this point we are at this moment We are reopening the debate, we are still discussing, and when the debate is closed, it will be sent back to Parliament. We will then see if we are going ahead or if we are coming back.
Without referring specifically to the ANC and the administration of former President Jacob Zuma, she said "at the moment the decision [to withdraw from the ICC] was"
" We could change our decision "
However, now there were other voices that now say that anger has gone down, why will not we come back on the issue? I think we are open to reconsidering the situation.
"We could make the same decision, or we could change our decision." The withdrawal decision was also confirmed by a resolution of the ANC at its national conference in Nasrec in December, and it was decided that It is not clear how this will be treated now.
Sisulu admitted, however, that Justice Minister Michael Masutha "is determined that this case (the withdrawal) will continue."
The question has been, in recent months, subject to a parliamentary process involving
Masutha appeared before the Justice and Corrections Portfolio Committee in Parliament last month, where he presented the project International Crimes Act, tabled in December and providing for the repeal of the implementation of the Rome Statute. of the International Criminal Court Act 2002, which would allow South Africa to withdraw from the ICC.
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The South African government was forced to withdraw from the ICC by informing the UN of its intention to do so but was forced to abandon the process after a court had ruled that such a decision had to go through Parliament
. Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir's visit to the country in 2015 to attend the summit of the African Union
Al-Bashir is considered an international fugitive of justice and signatories of the Rome Statute, which includes the 39, South Africa, are forced to stop in their countries, but it would have been politically embarrbading for South Africa.
Member States of the African Union decided last January to withdraw from the ICC, but even Kenya, which led the campaign after its president Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto, was indicted by the court and then was lukewarm thereafter.
Sisulu said that when South Africa joined the ICC (in 2002), she "had to make sure we could change. She said that the ICC ended up going to meet the "Small fry" in Africa and ignored the "big fry", which she refused to name – News24
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