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Flirting with Fire: African Leaders and International Law

African leaders often behave in a contradictory way towards international laws, and courts. While speaking out against them, they also voluntarily submit to their scrutiny. The question is why? The most likely answer is that they do so f...

Joburg Post·almost 5 years ago

Why the Ntaganda judgment Shows That the ICC has Found its Footing

In early July the International Criminal Court (ICC) convicted Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda of war crimes, torture, and sexual slavery. Nicknamed “Terminator”, the 46-year-old is the first person to be convicted of sexual slavery by ...

Joburg Post·almost 5 years ago

Migration in the Mediterranean: Why it’s Time to Put European Leaders on Trial

In June this year two lawyers filed a complaint at the International Criminal Court (ICC) naming European Union member states’ migration policies in the Mediterranean as crimes against humanity. The court’s Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, mu...

Kerstin Carlson·over 4 years ago

The Presidency sets the record straight on ICC allegations

The Presidency has cleared confusion that South Africa has intentions to exit the International Criminal Court (ICC), adding that the this was an error in the comment and that the country will remain a signatory to the Rome Statute.This ...

Tshegofatso Makola·almost 1 year ago

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