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In South Africa, Archbishop Desmond Tutu presents the report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to South African President Thabo Mbeki on 21 March 2003 in Pretoria. The two personalities smile and shake hands.
A South African betrayal
28 January 2025 by Thierry Cruvellier
On 20 January, 23 South Africans whose family members were murdered, forcibly disappeared or seriously injured under Apartheid have filed an unprecedented and damning application to the Constitutional Court. With the Foundation fo [...]
Mafias, gangs, cartels: mass violence that escapes transitional justice. Illustration: 3 men in hooded sweatshirts are dressed like gang members. In the background, a map of the world. Mafias, gangs, cartels: mass violence that escapes transitional justice
19 September 2024 by Golnouche K. Barzegar
Almost 40% of homicides worldwide are linked to organised crime. According to the 2023 report of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), between 2015 and 2021, organised crime caused around 700,000 deaths, a number c [...]
International justice: why is South Africa defending Palestine? - Photo: in 1998, Nelson Mandela (President of South Africa) prepares to embrace Yasser Arafat (President of the Palestinian Authority). Why South Africa is fighting for Palestine in The Hague
6 June 2024 by Benjamin Bibas
“We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians,” said Nelson Mandela. At a time when the party he brought to power at the end of apartheid has just lost its absolute majority, these words [...]
Is international justice relevant to prevent genocide in Gaza? Photo: A protestor holds a Palestinian flag in front of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), in The Hague. Is international justice relevant to prevent genocide in Gaza?
1 February 2024 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Swedish lawyer of Palestinian origin Nada Kiswanson has for the last 15 years provided evidence to various international institutions including the International Criminal Court, in order, she says, to “bring to an end violations c [...]
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Victims of the Israel / Palestine war in Rafah (Gaza Strip)
26 January 2024 by AFP
The ICJ calls on Israel to prevent "genocide" in Gaza On 26 January, the International Court of Justice declared itself competent to rule on the dispute between South Africa and Israel concerning the situation in Gaza. It ordered Israel to take "all measures within its power to preve [...]
Israel on trial at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). South Africa accuses Israel of committing genocide against the people of Palestine.
26 January 2024 by Sharon Weill
Israel on Trial The International Court of Justice will deliver today its order on urgent provisional measures requested by South Africa against Israel on the situation in Palestine. Professor Sharon Weill unwraps the parties' arguments and the m [...]
Israel / Palestine conflict - Inhabitants of Gaza amid the ruins.
15 January 2024 by Janet H. Anderson
Israel-Palestine: the legal battle has started On January 11 and 12, lawyers for South Africa and Israel presented their arguments before the International Court of Justice. South Africa is alleging that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people. For now it [...]
Karim Khan, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), is under pressure over the Palestine issue.
20 November 2023 by Janet H. Anderson
Palestine: the ICC Prosecutor under pressure On November 17, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court announced that 5 states sent him a referral of the situation of Palestine. As the numbers of Palestinians killed in the Israeli response to Hamas attacks ratchets [...]
Highly diplomatic transfer of Fulgence Kayishema from South Africa - Photo: Serge Brammertz speaks to the press.
2 November 2023 by Balthazar Nduwayezu
What's happening in the Kayishema case? What has happened since the arrest five months ago in South Africa of Fulgence Kayishema, one of the last four fugitives wanted for their role in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda? A new arrest warrant was made public in September, call [...]
Tensions between South Africa and the ICC - Vladimir Putin speaks in Cyril Ramaphosa's ear
28 April 2023 by Thierry Cruvellier
Why South Africa said it was leaving the ICC, then flip-flopped In less than 24 hours, the South African authorities announced their intention to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC) before declaring it a misunderstanding. South Africa is due to receive Vladimir Putin in August [...]
Serge Brammertz poses for the UN
14 June 2021 by Ephrem Rugiririza
Brammertz: “South Africa is a haven for fugitive genocide suspects” International prosecutor Serge Brammertz stepped up his tone on June 8 before the United Nations Security Council. He accused South Africa of protecting Fulgence Kayishema, a Rwandan genocide suspect who has been on the run for de [...]
24 February 2020 by Jasmina Brankovic
Socioeconomic oppression and the need to rethink transitional justice In South Africa, organized survivors of apartheid violations have increasingly focused on socioeconomic issues. There are continuities, they note, between the colonial and apartheid past and the democratic present. While building [...]
24 May 2019 by Kylie Thomas
South African justice reopens apartheid cases In 2003, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission had referred 300 cases to the courts. But state agents suspected of serious crimes under apartheid have hardly been prosecuted. 25 years after the end of segregationist rule, South [...]
13 December 2018 by Mark Freeman
Alex Boraine - In Memoriam Alex Boraine, the former vice-president of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, died on December 5. To many, he was a “giant” of what came to be known as transitional justice. Mark Freeman, the Executive Director of [...]
16 March 2018 by AFP
S.Africa ex-president Zuma to face graft prosecution Former South African president Jacob Zuma will face prosecution on corruption charges that haunted much of his term in office, the country's chief prosecutor said Friday. The ruling is the latest twist in a case that has dogged po [...]
13 February 2018 by AFP
South Africa: a giant of Africa South Africa is the continent's most industrialised economy and among its most developed, but marked by gaping inequalities rooted in years of racist white-minority rule that ended in 1994. - Apartheid - Black South Africans, arou [...]
13 July 2017 by AFP
S.African 'political' murderer in parole limbo Inside South Africa's maximum security Groenpunt prison, hawk-eyed guards stroll between rows of wooden benches, watching inmates closely as they meet visitors. Among the notorious jail's residents is 51-year-old triple murderer P [...]
24 June 2017 by AFP
S.Africa confronts apartheid-era custody deaths by police The brutal death of anti-apartheid campaigner Ahmed Timol was allowed to go quietly unsolved in the interests of South Africa's democratic reconciliation. But now more than 45 years after he fell from a 10th-floor window at a noto [...]
7 March 2017 by AFP
South Africa revokes decision to leave ICC: UN South Africa has formally revoked its controversial decision to leave the International Criminal Court following last month's High Court ruling that such a move would be unconstitutional. Notice of Pretoria's decision to end the w [...]
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