SA’s withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC) has sent a terrible message across the world about what we have become since the days of SA as a moral beacon, when this country was still led by leaders of moral courage like Nelson Mandela. The world has been quick to remind us that we were at the forefront of establishing this court to stem the impunity that has become endemic across the world. If we don’t want to encourage that sense of impunity by African leaders and a reluctance to act against peers, there is no cogent reason why we shouldn’t be strengthening a body like the ICC instead of causing an international spectacle by withdrawing from it. The central argument advanced about a conflict of interests is so much nonsense that I don’t have the words. What African interests do leaders who oversee genocides on the continent serve? What African interests are served by a crop of leaders who have failed to activate the African Court of Justice to bring justice to milli...
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