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IBM added to apartheid lawyer's list
01/07/2002 17:28 - (SA)
Johannesburg - US-based computer giant and three German banks were on Monday added to the apartheid reparations class action filed against Swiss banks Credit Suisse and UBS and the US's Citibank.
A South African lawyer representing apartheid victims in the
action against apartheid-era sanctions busters said on Monday the
papers were filed in a New York court.
John Ngcebetsha, a Johannesburg-based lawyer, the papers against IBM, Deutsche Bank, Dresdner Bank and Commerz Bank.
The victims are accusing the companies of benefiting from the
apartheid system.
"We have asked the court to preserve the evidence until the
trial starts," he said.
IBM is accused of supplying South Africa with computer
technology and systems which helped the system of institutionalised racial discrimination and repression to function, he said.
The initial claims have been filed on behalf of Lulu Petersen,
younger sister of Hector Petersen, the first victim of police
shootings during the June 16 student riots of 1976; Sigqibo
Mpendulo, the father of two 12-year-old twin brothers who were shot dead in a 1993 police raid at a house in Umtata; Ntebeza's brother Lungisile, who was detained and banished several times; and Themba Maqhubela, a US citizen who fled South Africa after refusing to testify against Ntsebeza in a political trial.
- SAPA
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