Dlamini Zuma says quitting the International Court is a sovereign decision by South Africa.

Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma  says the AU plays no part in the ICC because it’s neither a member nor a signatory of the Rome Statute establishing it in 2002.

She was in Pretoria to engage with South African editors on her blueprint agenda 2063 for the AU.

Reporters persisted in asking her about plans by Burundi and South Africa to quit the ICC

“You are trying to draw me into discussing South Africa leaving the ICC and I don’t want to get drawn into that. South Africa has taken the sovereign decision to leave the ICC just it took a sovereign decision to join it,” she said.

The AU chairperson maintains the extraordinary court set up to try Hissen Habre shows Africans are not weak to deal with their own perpetrators of crimes against humanity.

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