The saga of arresting or not arresting the president of the Russian Federation should he come to South Africa, ended on July 20 with the announcement that an agreement had been reached that President Vladimir Putin would not attend the BRICS summit in Johannesburg in person. He will now participate in the summit virtually while Russia will be represented physically by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
On Friday, the Gauteng High Court, Pretoria application to force the South African government to under- take to execute an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant against Putin was also put to rest.
In an out-of-court settlement between the Democratic Alliance (DA) and the
