GM settles with South Africa apartheid victims

US car giant General Motors has agreed to pay a symbolic sum of up to $1.5 million to victims of South Africa's apartheid-era government, who are suing it and another four companies for helping prop up the white-minority state.

South Africa's Khulumani Support Group lodged a US class action lawsuit a decade ago against more than 20 firms it accused of aiding and abetting human rights violations, including torture and extrajudicial killings, under apartheid.