ANC's Davis Committee Recommends Gaza ICC Action, Signaling Foreign Policy Shift
The ruling party's policy review panel has broken from Pretoria's traditionally cautious multilateral stance, urging immediate legal intervention at The Hague.
The African National Congress's internal policy review committee has published recommendations that would significantly shift South Africa's posture toward the International Criminal Court and the conflict in Gaza.
The Davis Committee report goes further than any previous internal party document in calling for concrete legal action, recommending that South Africa file an amicus curiae brief supporting the Prosecutor's investigation into events in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
The recommendations reflect anxiety about losing ground to the Economic Freedom Fighters, which has made diplomatic isolation of Israel a signature foreign policy position. The ANC's National Executive Committee is expected to consider the recommendations at its June 2026 meeting.