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South Africa - Apartheid
Apartheid in South Africa began the second half of the Forties of last century with the National Party's election victory and it finished in the first half of the Nineties with the reforms started by President Frederik Willem de Klerk and completed by President Nelson Mandela.
In 1995, with Act 34-95 (Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation) the Truth and Reconciliation Commission is established. This is a special court with the aim of promoting national unity and reconciliation in a spirit of understanding which transcends the conflicts and divisions of the past.
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Colonialism Reparation
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International pressure on Germany and Namibia
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From 14 to 16 October 2016 the Congress Restorative Justice after Genocide was held in Berlin, capital of Germany, and on January 5, 2017 Ovaherero and Nama have filed a class action lawsuit to get collective reparations and the right to be present at the ongoing negotiations between the German and Namibian Government. On February 8, 2017 the Tanzanian Government has affirmed that it will work to request for reparations to Germany following the example of the Herero and Nama of Namibia.
On February 27, 2017 the United Nations' Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent ended a seven day visit in Germany to assess the situation of African Americans and people of African descent...
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The end of the Empire
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The catastrophic events around the California Oroville Dam in recent weeks underscores a far more urgent problem. The American Society of Civil Engineers has just released their quadrennial assessment of United States essential infrastructure–roads, clean water supplies, levees, ports, dams, bridges, electric grid. The report gives the nation a near-failing D+ grade. America is coming to resemble the economic infrastructure in the Soviet Union domestically at the collapse of communism during the late 1980’s.
From :"The Crumbling American Superpower" by F. William Engdahl published on “New Eastern Outlook” concerning the internal situation of infrastructures into USA.
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