National Assembly Speaker and former defence minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula says the government avoided political implications when it disregarded a court order compelling it to arrest former Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir in 2015.
at the time, spokesperson Simphiwe Dlamini said the SANDF was not under threat. He dismissed the Netwerk24 report, saying"there is no iota of truth in these allegations". also denied it. It said the troops were neither under threat, nor held hostage.
"The information we have from Unamid is they were not under any threat and so that is where we stand. "In terms of operational details, obviously, the troops on the ground may have to go through manoeuvres at any point in time. But, in terms of whether they faced a threat or were surrounded or held hostage, no, they were not," said Farhan Haq, deputy spokesperson for the UN secretary-general.
The International Criminal Court had issued an arrest warrant for Sudan's Omar al-Bashir in connection with genocide and crimes against humanity.She said the local peacemakers were"encircled" by the Sudanese troops on the day the court issued the order and that the government avoided political implications that could have resulted from Al-Bashir's arrest.Our people could have been easily massacred on that day.
"If President Al-Bashir had been arrested in SA at the time, there could have been serious battles which could have impacted negatively. We could have lost. We could have suffered serious casualties," she said.She attributed the confusion to the government's failure to address the issue"so that South Africans are aware of some of the decisions".In times of uncertainty you need journalism you can trust.
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