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  • The DA Is Going Straight To ConCourt Over ANC’s Decision To Leave The ICC

    24 Oct 2016 by Sloane Hunter in Crime, Politics, South Africa
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    On Friday, South Africans awoke to the government’s decision to leave the International Criminal Court.

    An institution that acts as a watchdog over war crimes against humanity, the announcement comes at a time when decisions and actions within our borders are reaching a tipping point.

    The Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, signed the Instrument of Withdrawal on 19 October, following a Cabinet decision. But the decision has yet to go through Parliament and so the DA will be taking the government to the Constitutional Court after describing the act as “illegal and a disregard for the democratic process of Parliament.”

    This is according to EWN:

    The opposition party says it will lodge an urgent application to the Constitutional Court regarding the matter.

    The DA’s Mabine Seabe says the decision to withdraw from the ICC was not debated in Parliament, making it illegal.

    “As the Democratic Alliance we will approach the Constitutional Court on an urgent basis to set aside government’s decision to withdraw from the ICC.”

    South Africa’s announcement is now expected to prompt other African countries, who have accused the tribunal of a bias against the continent, to announce their own plans to withdraw.

    In its one-page notice of withdrawal delivered to the United Nations in New York, South Africa argues that the court’s rulings were sometimes “incompatible” with the “peaceful resolution of conflicts”.

    What are we going to do guys? Shit is slowly making its way to the fan and once it hits, we will be left in the dark.

    [source:ewn]

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