’s denial and hasty withdrawal of his statement that “the system of apartheid is not a crime against humanity”, as well as the inquest into activist Neil Aggett’s murder in prison, have been a sharp reminder that not one of the democratically elected administrations has prosecuted anyone for the crime of apartheid.
The apartheid litigation lawsuit, filed by the Khulumani Support Group in a United States district court and representing victims of human rights abuses under apartheid, sued 20 companies, including Daimler, IBM, Ford, ExxonMobil and JP Morgan. After several dismissals and subsequent appeals, the US courts finally dismissed the case in 2014.
The issue at hand is that Open Secrets obtained damning documentation from the South African and Belgian archives, which show that Kredietbank and Kredietbank Luxembourg were instrumental in facilitating covert payments by the apartheid government for them to make sanctions-busting international arms purchases and loans.
Open Secrets and Cals laid a complaint against the banks with the Belgian National Contact Point and the Luxembourg NCP of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development , to ensure that evidence about the crimes was brought to the attention of the public and authorities in the European countries where the banks are based. The Belgian and Luxembourg NCPs are state entities.
“When it comes to massive human rights abuses, such as genocide, war and the crime of apartheid the law has lagged significantly in holding wealthy private profiteers to account,” says Van Vuuren. “Open Secrets and Cals felt it important to test the OECD NCP mechanism in particular, because it purports to provide a mechanism dedicated specifically to tackling human rights violations by multinational corporations.
In response to questions from the Mail & Guardian, Stef Leunens, the press officer for KBC wrote: “KBC investigated the complaint and the NGOs’ [nongovernmental organisations’] supporting documentation as far as it was able to, given they referred to facts that dated from the period 1977-1994. However, as the related documents no longer exist, no verification of the allegations made by the NGOs was possible.
FraudWatchZA Many of the apartheid beneficiaries/sympathizers/enablers are still holding down senior management positions in corporate SA today maintaining their own status quo of keeping their own people in charge and blocking promotions, development and upliftment of the majority of us. Sad
. THIS IS TO DIVERT ATTENTION FROM THE CURRENT CRIMINALS, EFFECTING THE COUNTRY RIGHT NOW!
Segregation came from America
Forget that they will be ever be accountable under this government
There had also been no justice for the victims of Quatro. Not to sound 'whataboutish', I'm just wondering, was that not part of the deal?
Start with Standard bank first .
And now aiding the new apartheid government..
Outa can help on that one, if they can take Dudu Mnyeni to court , this is easy.
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