CAPE TOWN -- A lawyer and former commissioner of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission said on Friday that companies have a moral and legal duty to pay compensation to those who suffered under apartheid. Along with U.S. lawyer Ed Fagan, Ntsebeza has sparked controversy by filing a string of multi-billion dollar class-action lawsuits in the United States against multinational firms, including Anglo American Plc, DaimlerChrysler, Dow Chemical Co., and International Business Machines Corp., accusing them of having benefited from apartheid.
Posted by Editor at October 10, 2003 10:38 AM