A summit should be held to discuss the country\u2019s judiciary in the light of recent court judgments involving the executive, SA Communist Party secretary Blade Nzimande told delegates at the party\u2019s special national congress on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\u201dWe are not attacking the judiciary, but are saying there has been a deliberate overreach by the judiciary. It can\u2019t be the mandate of the judiciary to rule on matters of the executive\u2026it is against the spirit of the separation of powers,\u201d said Nzimande.<\/p>\n
\u201dAs the SACP we are going convene a summit on the judiciary and the issue of separation of powers, because we want to open a debate and not attack\u2026 we\u2019ve been told we are attacking the judiciary whenever we raise this issue,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Nzimande added that the SACP was not friends with Sudanese president Omar Al-Bashir, but agreed with government\u2019s decision to not arrest him when he was in South Africa for the 25th African Union summit in Johannesburg in June.<\/p>\n
\u201dWe are not friends with Bashir, he has committed serious atrocities\u2026but South Africa is not a colony. This issue was a direct attack on our national sovereignty,\u201d he explained. \u201cGovernment was correct to not arrest Bashir.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bashir has been indicted by the ICC for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide against some of the tribes of Sudan\u2019s western Darfur region. Two warrants of arrest were issued against him in 2009 and 2010.<\/p>\n
Source: ANA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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