In April 2010, Mr Mpho Masemola – a named plaintiff in the Apartheid Lawsuit – was hosted in Berlin by Khulumani’s partners primarily to attend the Annual General Meeting of the Shareholders of Daimler AG, one of the defendant companies.

Mpho made powerful submissions to the 5,000 strong audience who encouraged him to keep speaking out about Daimler’s complicity with the apartheid regime.

Mpho refused to give up the podium at the AGM without an agreement from Daimler’s CEO, Mr Dieter Zetsche that Daimler would begin speaking to victims.

On the advice of Daimler’s lawyers who were present, Mr Zetsche declared that Daimler would never speak to victims and that it had nothing to answer, necessitating the launch of an intensive Khulumani campaign to expose this “corporate lie”.

Mpho also conducted media interviews and other speaking engagements with his visit being headline news in three different German newspapers.