This week, in a case that captured the world’s attention, South Africa and Israel faced off at the International Court of Justice. Sunday Times legal correspondent Franny Rabkin, who attended the proceedings, dissects the issues.
“Genocide can never be justified in any circumstances,” Vaughan Lowe KC said at the International Court of Justice on Thursday, on behalf of SA in its genocide case against Israel.
Representation matters was the key sentiment when the world watched advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi and five other South African lawyers take the spotlight to argue at the International Court of Justice on Thursday in the country’s application for a ceasefire in the Gaza war which has claimed thousands of civilian lives.