 The clashes has, however, paralyzed hospitals and other essential services and left many stranded in their homes, with dwindling supplies of food and water. Elsewhere, South Africa's ruling ANC has called for the country, which has been criticised since the start of the war in Ukraine for its closeness to Moscow to leave the International Criminal Court, ICC President Syra Ramafolsa said on Tuesday. The Hague-based ICC issued an arrest warrant on March for Russian President Vladimir Putin for the war crime off the porting Ukrainian children. South Africa had previously sought to withdraw from the ICC in 2016 after a visit by former Sudanese President Oma Al-Bashir. Pretoria had refused to arrest Oma Al-Bashir, who was also the subject of an arrest warrant from the court. Pretoria's withdrawal was twitted by the court's judiciary, which ruled that such a decision would be unconstitutional. Yes, the governing party, the African National Congress, has taken that decision, that it is prudent that South Africa should pull out of the ICC, largely because of the manner in which the ICC has been seen to be dealing with these types of problems.