Mbeki awards one-off payments to apartheid victims By Basildon Peta, Southern Africa Correspondent 16 April 2003 South Africa's President, Thabo Mbeki, has announced a one-off payment of 30,000 rand (£2,500) each as compensation for thousands of victims of apartheid identified by the truth commission. The move is aimed at those seeking compensation from international companies that allegedly benefited under the apartheid system, which ended with all-race elections in 1994. Mr Mbeki rejected a blanket amnesty for people who committed atrocities in the apartheid era. But he said his government would not follow a recommendation by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission...