Marc Davies | Huffington Post ZA | 03 February 2018 | Multinationals need to be held accountable for “aiding and abetting” the apartheid regime, says a civil society representative at the People’s Tribunal.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) failed to investigate devastating apartheid-era economic crimes, and some of its recommendations should be revisited, said a witness on the first day of the People’s Tribunal on Saturday.
Human rights lawyer Charles Abrahams told evidence leaders and a panel chaired by Justice Zac Yacoob that, while the TRC made visible many apartheid atrocities, its focus on civil and political violations without due regard for the crimes of economic actors such as multinational corporations meant its work was incomplete.
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