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Mr Smalls and 13 other Freedom Flotilla Coalition activists who tried to break Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza aboard the Handala ship remain in detention and on hunger strike
SOUTH AFRICA confirmed yesterday it was pulling out of the International Criminal Court (ICC) — days after Burundi did the same.
Justice Minister Michael Masutha said the government would soon submit a Bill to parliament for withdrawal from the Hague court which has only ever prosecuted Africans.
A leaked letter from International Relations Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane on Thursday invoked withdrawal from the ICC effective after a year.
The plan is to stigmatise and destabilise South Africa in preparation for breaking it up while creating a confused and highly racialised atmosphere around immigration in the US to aid in denying rights to non-white refugees, explains EMILE SCHEPERS
