(17) In response to the criticisms triggered by its decision, South Africa reportedly invoked one of its usual invectives against the previous political order as a justification for the decision, arguing, for example, that "because the ANC government had allowed apartheid perpetrators to live in South Africa; why should it not allow human rights offenders from outside?" (18) The ANC government reportedly handed over the Zambian political dissident,
Amesace Mutangelwa -- who had taken refuge at the residence of one of the South African High Commission staff in Lusaka in August 1999 -- to the police.