There might be a few individuals in South Africa who are “angry” at Daimler and other international companies for their alleged “collaboration” with the apartheid government in the years before 1994, but the new South African government certainly isn’t. [Read on]

A United States court allowed a group action for damages brought by victims of apartheid against a select group of international companies – among them Daimler, Ford, GM, Barcalys Bank and Rheinmetall – for “supporting the apartheid regime”, the German business daily Handelsblatt reported here today. [Read on]