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Article: South African Government Withdraws Opposition To Apartheid Lawsuits Pending in U.S. Federal Court.
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- Politics & Government Week
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- September 24, 2009
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The South African government reversed its opposition to a pair of lawsuits pending in federal court in New York in which apartheid victims have alleged certain U.S. and foreign corporations aided and abetted human rights violations by South Africa's apartheid regime. The reversal was detailed in a letter delivered Tuesday by the South African government to a U.S. federal judge.
The letter from South Africa's Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development to District Judge Shira A. Scheindlin in the Southern District of New York concluded the U.S. court is "an appropriate forum" to hear claims by South African citizens that the corporations aided and abetted ...