ANC 'still grappling' with ICC membership - Mbalula
ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula says the governing party is still struggling to decide on whether to remain member of the International Criminal Court.
The debate on the ICC has flared up again following the arrest warrant issued by the court against Russian President Vladimir Putin for alleged unlawfully deportation of Ukrainian children in the one-year-old war.
South Africa is a signatory to the Rome Statute which makes it mandatory for Pretoria to arrest Putin in when he is expected to attend the BRICS summit in August.
"We are grappling with the issue of the ICC, not only in relation to Russia, before that because it was the work of the last NEC. This ANC has not reflected by saying are grappling it is a matter that was left somewhere and not concluded," said Mbalula.
"It could as well at the end the decision will be that we are not going out, we stay and, but in terms of the last NEC these are some of the outstanding matters we need to deal with as the NEC. By saying we are grappling we are indeed in that discussion."
Mbalula was speaking at the party's four-day national executive committee meeting in Boksburg.
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