Did business profit from apartheid in South Africa?
Can business be held accountable for human rights violations under apartheid?
What is the nature of the relationship between business and politics?
What role has and can business play in making redress for the past?
? Did business profit from apartheid in South Africa? Can business be held accountable for human rights violations under apartheid? What is the nature of the relationship between business and politics? What role has and can business play in making redress for the past?
These and many other questions will be the focus of the seminar being co-hosted by Khulumani Support Group and the Apartheid Museum on Friday, September 23, 2005 from 09:00 and 15:30.
The meeting will review the research undertaken by Khulumani Support Group into the relationship between business and three sectors of the economy in South Africa – the agricultural, mining and manufacturing sectors between 1910 and the present.
Khulumani is involved in international litigation to advance corporate accountability in the international arena. To date, there has been no direct engagement between South African corporations and Khulumani Support Group as the collective voice of survivors and victims of gross human rights violations.
This seminar is the opening of a dialogue to explore together how business can support intiatives to make redress to those who carried the cost of the political transition in South Africa. The time is long overdue.
Please join us in the dialogue.
Issued by Dr Marjorie Jobson, Chairperson, Khulumani Support Group Board of Directors
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