S Africa's choice to renounce its notice of withdrawal from the ICC does not mean the matter is indisputably settled.
South Africa has been summoned to show up under the steady gaze of the Global Criminal Court on April 7 to respond in due order regarding its inability to arrest President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan amid his visit to the nation in June 2015.
This declaration came just days after South Africa educated the United Nations of its choice to repudiate its withdrawal from the court.
In October 2016, South Africa declared its choice to pull back from the ICC. In any case, prior this year, South Africa's High Court proclaimed the choice, which was taken without parliamentary endorsement, as "unlawful and invalid" and requested the legislature to revoke the notice it sent to the UN.
On March 7, the South African government clung to the court's choice and composed a letter to the UN secretary-general authoritatively cancelling its notice of withdrawal from the court.
Naturally, this has conveyed a moan of alleviation to the ICC and its supporters, who dreaded of an African mass migration from the Hague-based court, taking after a spate of withdrawals in October 2016 including two different nations: Burundi and The Gambia.
Of course, The Gambia under its new President Adama Barrow additionally upset his antecedent's choice to pull back from the ICC and communicated his administration's support for the court.
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