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ASIDE from a shrill right-wing minority, South Africans are experiencing a shared sense of pride after the superb performance of our excellent legal team at The Hague. As Nontobeko Hlela argued in an important piece in the Mail & Guardian, South Africa gave global leadership in a time of global crisis.
Our country had huge global respect and moral authority during the Mandela Presidency but this began to be squandered with Thabo Mbeki’s appeasement of the brutal regime in Harare, and then his Aids debacle. When Jacob Zuma came