OK.  South Africa signs up the ICC, and goes even further by domesticating compliance with the ICC into our own law.  The government then takes a decision which involves flouting the ICC rules, and also (and perhaps more importantly) disregards the laws of South Africa.  Can you see where this kind of thinking leads, Ms. Molewa? Maybe, if the Government had actually acted as it is legally bound to, the message sent to the international community would have acted as a deterrent to other African dictators and human-rights abusers.  Perhaps the looming dictatorship in Zaire could be avoided if the leader concerned felt that he might actually be held accountable?  The path that you seek to tread has been tried before in Africa, and the consequences are all too visible.  Your stiff-necked pride carries a truly horrific cost, paid by the oppressed of the continent.