Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba says Donald Trump should be left to do what he believes is good for the United States while the Pretoria government  should be allowed to do what it believes is best for South Africa.

But, he says, South Africa does not agree with the measures taken by Trump to block refugees from certain countries.

The minister says South Africa has an immigration policy based on human rights, humane treatment of people in distress and African solidarity.

Gigaba says South Africa would never ban person from a certain country or because  of religious, gender or sexual orientation.

He  says it violates international law to impose a collective ban on people – except people belonging to to an organisation injurious to national interests.

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Both Russia and the US signed the Rome Statute of 1998 giving birth to the ICC, Niether have ratified that treaty, and now both have pointedly rejected the tribunal’s authority.

Russia’s decision to leave the ICC altogether is widely seen as the latest step in a trend that may

threaten the future of world justice.

This after Burundi, South Africa and Gambia gave notice of quitting the court.

US State Department spokesman John Kirby says even though Washington doesn’t recognize the ICC’s authority over its personnel, it does not diminish US belief that the court does provide a valuable framework.

He says Washington supports ICC prosecution of those cases that advance US interests.

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