{"id":40380,"date":"2026-07-23T12:38:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T10:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=40380"},"modified":"2026-07-23T12:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T10:40:10","slug":"icc","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/icc\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghanaians submit petition to International Criminal Court against SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">Two Ghanaians have submitted a petition to the International Criminal Court against South Africa (SA).<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"x_ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They have requested the court to investigate what they call attacks against foreign nationals, saying they could constitute crimes against humanity.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Pretoria has described this as opportunistic.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>SA\u2019s International Relations Spokesperson Chrispin Phiri says the action fails to satisfy the statutory legal triggers.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cLegislation such as the Prevention and Combating Hate Crimes, Hate Speech Act directly gives effect to the Republic\u2019s obligations under the Constitution and International Human Rights instruments concerning racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and other related intolerances.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cThis legal framework specifically provides for a distinct offence such as hate crime and hate speech and ensures prosecution of any offences committed by individuals in this category,\u201d adds Phiri.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u2014SABC\u2014<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14725,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-40380","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"SA\u2019s International Relations Spokesperson Chrispin Phiri says the action fails to satisfy the statutory legal triggers.","published_date":"","news_description":"SA\u2019s International Relations Spokesperson Chrispin Phiri says the action fails to satisfy the statutory legal triggers.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/40380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/40380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40383,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/40380\/revisions\/40383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=40380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}