(January 28, 2004) If victims of apartheid had a case against companies dealing with the apartheid state, then electrical companies could be sued for their part in deaths on the electric chair, a judge argued this week.

(November 11, 2003) It was arguably economic pressure brought by sanctions that eventually brought down the racist apartheid system; but by the same token, it was economic support from the outside including loans from multinational banks which kept the system going.

(August 27, 2003) Experts say South Africa’s law is flawed, allowing those who offer bribes to walk free.

(July 30, 2003) Loans to the apartheid regime and its agents are “odious debts” and should not be repaid, says the London-based International Apartheid Debt and Reparations Campaign.

(May 15, 2003) Two major lawsuits – filed in the United States against multinational corporations including GM, IBM and Citigroup for aiding and abetting apartheid – are at a critical juncture.

(March 1, 2003) It is the illegitimate nature of the apartheid regime and the odious nature of the apartheid system that defines the illegitimacy of the apartheid debt.

(August 9, 2002) The lawyer who led a successful campaign for Holocaust reparations will launch a courtroom battle in New York today to try to force several multinational corporations to pay up to $100bn (£65bn) to people who suffered under apartheid in South Africa.

(August 8, 2002) Lawyers representing South African apartheid victims seeking billions of dollars for “blood and misery” from German, Swiss and US firms will present their claims in New York on Friday.

(August 7, 2002) Jubilee South Africa was still in the process of defining the parameters of its international legal action on apartheid reparations, leading holocaust lawyer Michael Hausfelt, said in Johannesburg on Saturday.

(August 2, 2002) A week from today, in the U.S. District Court here, a class-action trial begins against companies that did business in South Africa during the apartheid years.

(August 1, 2002) An SA delegation of people who are suing international banks and companies for profiteering from apartheid, will attend an open conference of an apartheid class action in a New York court next week Friday.

(August 1, 2002) The South African task force seeking billions of dollars from foreign companies alleged to have bolstered white apartheid rule could soon add Royal Dutch Shell to their action, a task force spokesman said on Thursday.

(July 12, 2002) ‘Some call me the devil,” proclaims Ed Fagan delightedly. “I’m not the devil — but I can be,” says Fagan. “The devil’s a guy who does a job and gets a bad rap.”

(July 10, 2002) The U.S. lawyer seeking massive compensation from foreign investors for victims of South African apartheid, has written to at least 27 banks and corporations proposing settlement talks.