Mick Hartley

This sounds all too plausible. From the JC:

South Africa brought the genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in return for bribes from Iran, a group of 160 lawyers has alleged.

In a letter to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, the lawyers say that the ruling African National Congress (ANC) experienced a sudden financial turnaround after it launched the ICJ case, a fact that warrants an inquiry under America’s anti-corruption Magnitsky Act.

Organised by the Israel Law Centre, Shurat HaDin, the letter – signed by legal experts from the US, Israel, Australia, Canada, England, Hong Kong, Brazil, France, Singapore and Netherlands – also draws attention to a series of meetings between ANC leaders and Iranian officials.

Days after October 7, the ANC’s foreign minister Naledi Pandor flew to Tehran to meet her Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir-Abdollahian.

The pair discussed what Pandor referred to as Israel’s “apartheid”.

ANC politicians also met Hamas when they visited South Africa in December.

Hamas’s former government minister Basem Naim and its representative in Iran, Khaled Qaddoumi, were part of the delegation.

The visit underscored the “cosy” relationship between South Africa and Hamas, one Israeli official said at the time. Weeks after Hamas’s visit, South Africa filed against Israel at the ICJ.

The letter suggests that the rapid improvements in the ANC’s sudden financial position can be linked to these meetings and the ICJ case.

The ANC has had crippling financial difficulties, but after it tabled the genocide case at the Hague, the party announced that its finances had stabilised.