It means that white male applicants won't be 'automatically rejected', just 'rejected'. They simply did away with the 'automatically' part
This is for the cadet program only. Kind of understandable, give the fixation on race and the fact that PDI's (we're going to have to invent a new term here, will we still be using 'PDI' in 50 years time?) often can't pay the cost of training. Then again, nor could a lot of people I know who still managed to get their CPL....plus a there are a LOT of 'PDI's' who are MUCH wealthier than my family ever was or will be....this is what you get when you classify by race I guess. Welcome to SA(A)!