In this significant, thoughtful and considered judgment, on which the Constitutional Court will no doubt have the final say, the court found that criminal indictments which include the crime of apartheid as a reference to the crime under customary international law in terms of Section 232 of the Constitution, and not the crime of apartheid
International Law
International law does not cover expropriations of property belonging to a country’s own nationals

By Patrick Bracher (ZA) on
An interesting case involving international law was heard in the US Supreme Court and lead to the conclusion that the US Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act which reflects international law does not entitle a foreign state to interfere with what is known as a ‘domestic taking’ where the state takes the property of its own nationals.…