The police trainee left no note behind and gave his family no warning.
A press release for "C'opera" touts it as revealing an "inside, close-up" view of police trainees.
Flagrant use of racist language to deride other police trainees was also reported.
The police trainees in Soweto had completed half of a 13-week crash course in combating civil unrest before being sent into black townships.
The police trainees will be guaranteed to have a job and will be trained for 6 months there.
After the three men jousted over how to pay police trainees more than $25,000, she interjected that the answer lay in the "negotiation process."
Another difference between basic riding and police training is the frequency that police trainees fall down.
He was a former engineering student and police trainee and had lived in Saudi Arabia for several years.
The gunfire, however, came from a police trainee carrying a laser pistol, much like those used in video arcades.
A11 In South Africa, a grenade killed a black police trainee and wounded 64 of his colleagues, six of them seriously.