WHAT FORM OF REPARATION SHOULD VICTIMS OF APARTHEID RECEIVE?

Who are apartheid victims? Have they been compesnated as is the norm in many other countries?Wwhat sport of compensation or reparation is sufficient ? Who pays? Guest: Ralph Mathekga – Head of political economy at MistraGuest: Brian Mphahlele – Member of the Western Cape provincial executive committee of Khulumani Support Group. Khulumani Support Group (KSG) is a national membership organisation of victims and survivors of Apartheid’s gross human rights violations. Brian Mphahlele was tortured and beaten at Caledon Square Police Station during the 1970s. He endured prolonged torture. The President’s Fund was established in 2003 under President Thabo Mbeki to compensate Apartheid victims. It has accumulated over a billion rands. Nevertheless, many Apartheid victims who were identified by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to receive compensation from this fund, have still received nothing. Some have died waiting. The fund was established in 2003 in terms of the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act, more commonly known as the TRC Act.While the TRC recognised just more than 16,800 people as victims, Ms Jobson said Khulumani had more than 104,000 members who qualified as victims of apartheid. "The numbers don’t represent victims of apartheid and we have tried to make government understand this for nine years."A once-off reparation grant of R30,000 was paid to about 20,000 people identified by the TRC in 2003 for suffering under apartheid.