Mpumelelo Mkhabela writes that those questioning South Africa's intervention at The Hague should read a bit about how your ancestors may have been victims of something that has some similarities with what's going on in Gaza.
Thomas Hobbes, a philosopher who hated anarchy and loved order, said something profound about the duty of human beings to each other.
In his influential book, Leviathan, he wrote: "Before the names of Just and Unjust can have a place, there must be some coercive power to compel men equally to the performance of their covenants. Where there's no commonwealth, there nothing is Unjust."