Thu 22 Nov 2007 |
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SA opens new pardon process |
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 President Thabo Mbeki extended the possibility of pardons Wednesday to people convicted in political violence that persisted beyond apartheid. Mbeki told a joint session of parliament that people convicted of offenses they saw as political before June 1999 should be able to apply for a presidential pardon in a three-month window starting Jan. 15.
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Fri 02 Nov 2007 |
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Firms stay mum on apartheid lawsuit |
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While the 24 multinational corporations facing litigation over their apartheid-era business activities in the country remain poker-faced, the South African government’s intervention on their behalf is appearing, increasingly, as the joker in the pack.
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Mon 22 Oct 2007 |
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Apartheid case shock for legal eagles |
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LAWYERS from some of the most blue-blooded companies in the world got a nasty shock this week when a US appeal court reversed a decision of a lower court which had dismissed the claims brought by 32700 apartheid victims. Gossip is that the finding was a real shock too for the hot-shot lawyers employed by the group of companies, which includes BP, ExxonMobil, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, UBS, IBM and General Motors , who apparently advised that the case did not stand a chance.
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Mon 22 Oct 2007 |
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The big payback? |
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 In 1976 Sindiswa Nunu, then a pupil at Gugulethu�s Isaac Mkhize Secondary, was shot in both legs by the police during the wave of student uprisings that swept the country. Detained and beaten several times in the ensuing years, a five-months pregnant Nunu suffered a miscarriage after a brutal beating in 1987 at Caledon Square Police Station. Today she is unemployed and lives in an unfinished house in Phillipi. She survives on grants she receives for two of her four children. She half jokingly says that apartheid is the reason she is single, because marriage would have demanded a more stable lifestyle.
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Sun 21 Oct 2007 |
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Apartheid Victims Vow to Fight on. |
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 Apartheid victims have vowed to fight attempts by the South African government to block their reparations claims in a United States court. They are to seek expert legal opinion on whether they can take the government to court over what they believe are efforts to obstruct their rights to seek redress from foreign companies that they say propped up apartheid's repressive machinery.
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Sun 21 Oct 2007 |
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State to oppose claims by apartheid victims |
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Written by Independent Online
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Former Truth and Reconciliation commissioners have made the strongest appeal yet for a public debate on the process to resolve the unfinished business of apartheid. They say the legacy of the process has become bogged down in legal battles and obscure administrative machinations. The appeal was made in the same week government and multinational corporations indicated they would continue to oppose reparations claims by apartheid victims in a New York court against those they believed assisted the state to repress them.
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Fri 19 Oct 2007 |
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SA govt against apartheid lawsuit in US |
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The responsibility of addressing South Africa's apartheid past lies within the country itself and not the United States courts, Justice and Constitutional Development Minister Brigitte Mabandla said on Friday. In a statement issued by her office, she reiterated the government's stance against the case brought by a group of apartheid victims in US courts. "We submit that another country's courts should not determine how ongoing political processes in South Africa should be resolved," Mabandla said.
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Mon 15 Oct 2007 |
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Apartheid Victims to seek damages from International Firms |
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Victims of South African apartheid plan to seek compensation from 22 international companies for helping maintain the repressive state regime, after a landmark US court ruling paved the way for such lawsuits last week, their lawyer told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
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Mon 15 Oct 2007 |
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US Court gives hope to South African apartheid victims |
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| Victims who filed suit for 400 billion dollars against US businesses allegedly complicit with the former South African apartheid regime have found new hope following a federal court ruling. "The Appeals Court decision is a major victory," said Michael Hausfeld, a lawyer for the victims on the heels of Friday's decision by a Manhattan federal court. |
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Sun 14 Oct 2007 |
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US ruling victory for apartheid victims |
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Written by Independent Online
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 Apartheid victims and human rights organisations have claimed a major victory after a surprise landmark ruling by a United States court that will allow them to bring claims for compensation against multinational companies and banks they say propped up the apartheid state. The far-reaching judgment by a panel of three appeal court judges in New York on Friday has already been called a "watershed moment in legal history" because it opens the door for victims of state repression worldwide to hold accountable under the US Alien Torte Statute those who directly and indirectly support such regimes.
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