(June 17, 2002) US attorney Ed Fagan said on Sunday he planned to initiate a class action lawsuit in the US against Switzerland’s two biggest banks and a US bank on behalf of victims of South Africa’s former apartheid regime.

(June 17, 2002) An American claims lawyer who helped to force Swiss banks into a $1.25 billion settlement for Nazi victims had to abandon a news conference because of a hostile crowd.

(June 17, 2002) Swiss and American banks that financed South Africa’s apartheid regime are facing a $50bn (£34bn, €53bn) class action lawsuit brought by a team of lawyers on behalf of the victims of apartheid.

(June 17, 2002) International sanctions-busting banks and companies could be faced with legal claims amounting to billions of rands following legal claims launched on Monday by apartheid victims against institutions which propped up the racist system.

(June 16, 2002) An American lawyer representing victims of South Africa’s former Apartheid regime is set to launch a class action against Swiss banks.

(June 16, 2002) The American lawyer who won compensation for Holocaust victims is about to launch legal claims for billions of pounds against companies, many of them British, that benefited from apartheid.

(December 28, 2001) Millions of black South Africans, who lack basic services such as housing, decent schools and hospitals, must toil daily to pay back the billions of dollars borrowed by former apartheid regimes to oppress them.

(December 10, 2001) A US attorney is seeking plaintiffs to sue Swiss banks which financed South Africa’s former apartheid regime, a Swiss newspaper said on Sunday.

(November 12, 2001) Campaigning New York lawyer Ed Fagan is to sue banks in Europe and the United States on behalf of victims of South Africa’s apartheid regime, it was reported on Sunday.

(February 21, 2001) Yet another budget that prioritises the Apartheid debt ahead of the poor!

(December 8, 2000) Foreign companies should face up to the truth about their roles in apartheid, a recent NGO conference in Germany concluded.

(July 26, 2000) Anglican Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane has issued an urgent call to the world’s highly indebted poor countries (HIPC) to close ranks and refuse to service their debt to the G-8 countries.

(July 24, 2000) Jubilee 2000 South Africa is outraged at the G7’s announcement on debt at their Summit here in Okinawa.

(January 1, 2000) There is “no (repeat, no) prospect for Zaire’s creditors to get their money back in the foreseeable future.” – Edwin Blumenthal, International Monetary Fund.

(October 14, 1999) The Swiss government has acknowledged that its refusal to impose sanctions on apartheid South Africa 15 years ago was indefensible.