In a PR nightmare, the ANC and the office of the presidency went into damage control mode this week after President Cyril Ramaphosa and Fikile Mbalula misled the country by stating that South Africa would withdraw from the International Criminal Court.
and veteran broadcaster Freek Robinson — after objections from the ANC Veterans League, among others.
Horn, a mountaineer, was a member of the apartheid-era military’s notorious 101 Battalion, which was involved in a number of massacres during Namibia’s war of independence. In his presentation, which the Mail & Guardian has seen, Ramokgopa said as the legal team prepared to defend the state of disaster in court, they asked for information on what had been taken into account to establish that existing legation was insufficient to meet the challenge of load-shedding, and specifically, its impact on the people and the economy.
“In terms of the court rules, these documents would have to be shared with the other side. The moment this happened, the government would not only have no basis for defending the state of disaster but it was feared a court may make a decision that ties hands in the long term for any classification of the electricity crisis as such,” he said.
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