SOUTH AFRICA’S IMPACT AT THE ICJ

In early March, South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor attended the 2024 Antalya Diplomacy Forum, where diplomats and academics exchanged ideas on international policy.

During the event, Turkish state media outlet TRT World interviewed Pandor on the impact of South Africa’s case charging Israel with violating the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention. After the International Court of Justice's 26 January provisional ruling that Israel avoid acts of genocide, Israel killed an additional 5,000 Palestinians, bringing the death toll to more than 31,000.

Pandor has been an outspoken campaigner for the Palestinian liberation cause. Palestine also openly supported the South African anti-apartheid movement until apartheid ended in the early 1990s.