WORLD IN BRIEF : SOUTH AFRICA : Mandela Calls Police Killings a ‘Massacre’

Nelson Mandela called the weekend killing of seven blacks by South African police a “massacre” and warned that efforts to end apartheid will collapse unless the government ends violence by security forces. Mandela, deputy president of the African National Congress, was reacting to the shooting of protesters on Sunday in Welkom in the Orange Free State. Welkom has been the scene of several bloody confrontations between blacks and right-wing whites who have formed “defense groups.”