S. Africa to Integrate Training of Police
<i> Reuters</i>
CAPE TOWN, South Africa —
The government said Tuesday that it will integrate all South African police training starting in January to ensure that white and black officers perform impartially.
Basic training of the 70,000-strong force, more than half of it black, is now segregated, although further training of existing police officers is increasingly integrated, an official said. Anti-apartheid activists accuse the police of favoring moderate groups in clashes involving Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress.
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