S. Africa Plans to Integrate Its Trains
South African trains, which currently have separate cars for blacks and whites, will be integrated “as soon as possible,” a spokesman for the Transport Ministry said Wednesday.
Signs designating cars for blacks and for whites have already been taken down and destroyed in the western Cape Province, but no date has been set for similar moves in Johannesburg and other major cities.
“Our only criterion for getting rid of racial discrimination is that it be done in an orderly and responsible manner,” said spokesman Leon Els, in a Cape Town interview with the Johannesburg Star.
“For that reason, we cannot put specific dates on when the signs will be coming down at Johannesburg station or when trains will be completely desegregated,” he said. The actions are part of a 1985 plan focusing on general transport desegregation.
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