SA U-turn on apartheid lawsuits - Democratic Underground

dipsydoodle

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Fri Sep-04-09 07:21 AM
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SA U-turn on apartheid lawsuits

Source: BBC News

South Africa's government has backed a bid by apartheid victims to sue firms in the US - reversing the position of the previous administration.

A group of South Africans is taking legal action against the companies in a court in New York's southern district.

Barclays, Daimler, Ford, Fujitsu, General Motors, IBM, Rheinmetall and UBS are accused of aiding and abetting South Africa's former apartheid regime.

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Among other things, they claim that the companies produced parts for vehicles which were used to carry out the assassinations of liberation movement activists and unprovoked shootings of black people during the apartheid years.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8237467.stm

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David__77

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Fri Sep-04-09 03:49 PM
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1. Good. It's been 15 years. Time to tighten the screws.

Time to rectify South Africa and right past wrongs.

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