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‘Mandela will be smiling,’ South Africa minister says on ICJ ruling against Israel

South Africa’s liberation hero Nelson Mandela “will be smiling in his grave” at the World Court order imposing emergency measures against Israel over its war in Gaza, Reuters quotes Justice Minister Ronald Lamola as saying.

“We believe that former President Mandela will be smiling in his grave as one of the advocates for the Genocide Convention,” Lamola told Reuters on the sidelines of a gathering of the governing African National Congress party outside Johannesburg.

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