CONTINUATION OF SU 2

Question 1

POSITIVE CONTRIBUTIONS OF SA TO INTERNATIONAL LAW:

Answer 1

-South Africa made a positive contribution to the maintenance of international peace and gave its full support to the League’s collective measures.
-South Africa was one of the foremost advocates of collective sanctions against Italy, following Italy’s invasion of Ethiopia
-South Africa played a prominent part in the creation of the United Nations

Question 2

NEGATIVE CONTRIBUTION OF SOUTH AFRICA:

Answer 2

-New rules of treaty and customary international law to promote human rights, racial equality and decolonization evolved as a result of international opposition of apartheid.
-the prohibition on interference in the domestic affairs of states
-article 2(7) of the Charter, was substantially weakened by a succession of resolutions condemning apartheid.
-notions of statehood were reassessed as a result of the United Nations’ refusal to recognise Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Venda and Ciskei as independent states.
-Humanitarian law was rewritten to confer prisoner-of-war status on combatants belonging to the ANC and other national liberation movements.