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Video of students abusing black workers sparks protest
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 27 - 02 - 2008


South African political and civil society
leaders on Wednesday condemned a racist video made at the University
of the Free State showing four students humiliating black workers,
including serving them food on which one student had urinated, according to dpa.
The video, which surfaced Tuesday according to university
authorities, was apparently recorded by a group of white male
students in September in reaction to a move to create multi-racial
student hostels.
In the video one student is seeing urinating on food before
serving it to five unsuspecting cleaning staff - four women and a man
- to hoots of laughter from his friends, university spokeswoman Lacea
Loader confirmed.
The workers were also given alcohol to drink, told to run a race
and play rugby in the video, which the university said was made by
occupants of a male hostel, apparently as part of an assignment.
The video ends with one of the women washing the dishes with the
words "That, at the end of the day, is what we think of integration"
in Afrikaans across the screen.
The university's vice-chancellor Frederick Fourie condemned the
video as a gross violation of the workers' dignity and said the
university would press charges against the students concerned.
Two of the four students have already completed their studies. The
university was taking steps to suspend the other two, he said.
Fourie said the workers filmed in the video were "traumatised" on
realizing they had been unwittingly partaken in.
He also admitted the university in the notoriously conservative
province was "going through a difficult time" with multi-racial
accommodation. Students at the university last week rioted over the
issue, causing millions of rands in damage.
On Wednesday hundreds of students, workers and staff came together
for a protest march over the video.
The South Africa Students' Congress, the African National Congress
Youth League, two opposition parties and teachers' unions have all
condemned the students' actions as "barbaric" while the South African
Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) warned the video would do "great
damage" to post-apartheid reconciliation.
SAIRR deputy head Frans Cronje, in remarks carried by SAPA news
agency, referred to two other incidents over the past month as
raising concerns for race relations.
In one, a young white man opened fire on black township dwellers,
in North-West province in January, allegedly killing four people in
an apparently unprovoked attack.
In the second, white journalists in Johannesburg were excluded
from an off-the-record briefing for black journalists given by ANC
president Jacob Zuma.
The Forum for Black Journalists which organized the briefing
defended the decision to exclude white journalists by claiming white
and black journanists in South Africa had diverging interests.


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