SA's quiet push for 'virtual' Putin visit to solve ICC arrest warrant dilemma

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Top story | The Sunday Times has learnt that the Department of International Relations has a legal opinion which says South Africa cannot legally turn a blind eye to the warrant.

The South African government and its Russian counterparts are engaged in high-level talks that could see President Vladimir Putin avoid travelling to South Africa to avert a diplomatic fallout over the International Criminal Court’s warrant of his arrest...From World War 1 to present-day cosmopolitan South Africa and beyond, the Sunday Times has been a pillar in covering the stories that matter to you.

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