ANCWL Statement, 23 October 2016 Cabinet Decision to Withdraw from International Criminal Court The African National Congress Women's League (ANCWL) welcomes the decision by the cabinet to withdraw from the ICC. The ANCWL hopes that the opposition political parties in Parliament who believes in African solution for African problems will support the decision of cabinet to withdraw from International Criminal Court (ICC). The ANCWL unwaveringly supports the protection and promotion of human rights in South Africa and beyond its borders. It is a known fact that most of the victims of these heinous crimes are women and children. Any alleged perpetrators of these barbaric crimes must be prosecuted; however the ANCWL does not support biased, imperialist influenced process of prosecuting the alleged perpetrators of these crimes. It is ANCWL's view that the manner in which ICC is conducting its business has been skewed towards targeting mostly African leaders. Is not surprising that Democratic Alliance (DA) has decided to take cabinet decision to court as for them the full independence of African States is not of paramount importance. Their agenda is to promote white supremacy where blacks are relegated to be the servants of white masters. They use black faces as leaders of their party and their coalition led municipalities and these leaders are instructed from somewhere in the Western Cape. Their interest is to advance imperialists agenda and therefore for them to support ICC which is influenced by Western forces is not surprising. The ANCWL calls African Union (AU) to persuade African countries who are members of ICC to also pull out and establish an African Criminal Court (ACC). The ACC must be an independent and objective prosecution body to crimes against humanity and the violation of human rights. It must also have powers to investigate and prosecute crimes committed by colonialist during their forced ruling of African States. The prosecution must also target those who have benefited from crimes against humanity (Apartheid) in South Africa as they are the beneficiaries of criminal activities against humanity. Issued by: Meokgo Matuba, ANCWL Secretary General Enquiries: Cde Toko Xasa, ANCWL National Spokesperson, 082 652 3131 __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 14325 (20161023) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/000001d22d23%244990b010%24dcb21030%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
