DA leader Mmusi Maimane has written to Public Protector Thuli Madonsela to investigate whether any state funds were used to transport Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir out of the country, despite a court order barring him from leaving last week, he said on Monday. “I’ve asked the public protector to investigate[…]
President Jacob Zuma and four Cabinet ministers hatched a plot to ensure Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir’s safe travel out of South Africa, it was reported on Friday. Al-Bashir slipped out of the country moments before judges in the High Court in Pretoria ordered he be arrested. The Sudanese leader was[…]
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, who is also the African Union (AU) chair, says Africa must establish its own International Criminal Court (ICC) which would be mandated to prosecute Western leaders who have committed crimes on the continent. According to the state-owned Chronicle newspaper, Mugabe said it was high time Africa[…]
The presidency on Thursday denied that Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa evaded questions on Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir’s flight from South Africa. National Council of Provinces chairperson Thandi Modise ruled on Wednesday that the matter was still before the courts and an investigation into the circumstances of his departure from South[…]
National Council of Provinces chairperson Thandi Modise would not allow questions about Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir’s controversial visit to South Africa to be asked during Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa’s question and answer session on Wednesday. Ramaphosa was asked by DA NCOP member Jacques Julius why government allowed Al-Bashir to leave[…]
More than 800 terrified South African soldiers in Sudan feared the worst when their camp was surrounded by Sudanese troops. “In order to save lives, we would have to have surrendered if they stormed us. One battalion of soldiers without proper weapons could not fight against an entire country’s army,”[…]
Anglican Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu said on Tuesday that some of the most powerful nations’ refusal to comply with the International Criminal Court had created an environment for South Africa to allow Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir into, and out of, the country. “These powerful nations have created the rationale for[…]
The Sudanese government of president Omar al-Bashir literally held a gun to South Africa’s head to secure his safe return to Khartoum. Netwerk24 can reveal that about 1 400 South African soldiers in Darfur were held “hostage” by Sudanese troops when the drama around Al-Bashir’s possible arrest in South Africa[…]
President Jacob Zuma gave the African Union summit assurances that Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir would not be arrested, Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe has said. Responding to questions by journalists following the close of the AU summit in Sandton just before midnight on Monday, Mugabe said because Bashir was a wanted[…]
South Africa had violated international law not once but at least three times with its treatment of Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir, said Professor Bonita Meyersfeld from the Centre for Applied Legal Studies at Wits University. “The first violation was when South Africa allowed him in in the first place and[…]
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