If the world wants a measure of South Africa’s commitment to the treaties and conventions it signs, it now has one.
Our president this week made it clear it’s pretty much non-existent. When push comes to shove with the ANC, expediency will always triumph over principle and legal obligations. Always.
In an affidavit that Cyril Ramaphosa wanted to be kept secret but which a High Court judge ruled a public document, the president said his government could