South Africa has a new top diplomat. What does that mean for Palestine? | Politics News

Pretoria, South Africa – When South Africa brought a case against Israel to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) late last year, its foreign ministry led the charge.

Then-minister of international relations and cooperation, Naledi Pandor, sat with lawyers and experts in The Hague in January as the ICJ announced provisional measures in the case accusing Israel of committing genocide in its war on Gaza.

“We could not stand idly by and continue to observe the killing of thousands of Palestinian citizens who had no role in the awful act of hostage-taking and killing,” Pandor told…