A South African church-backed group is offering ex-combatants training skills to help them stay away from violence.

Working with local churches the programme, run by the National Peace Accord Trust, will provide ex-combatants with life skills and vocational qualifications so they can be absorbed into the formal job market or set up ventures of their own.

In the final days of Apartheid, the government used surrogate forces in numerous black areas. Entire communities were attacked.

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