i used to think that appatied and racisim was over in South Africa until i read this:

A VIDEO recording of black workers made to perform degrading acts by white university students has sparked outrage in South Africa and cast a new spotlight on racism in the "Rainbow Nation".

The home-made film, described as "shocking and disgusting", shows five laughing black workers taking part in a number of initiation-like rituals, including going down on their knees and eating meat a student had urinated on. . . . .

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See the video that sparked riots in South Africa this week

Video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Rprk0b43YDE

I just read that

I've always considered SA as being one of the most disgraceful African countries.

Pathetic.

It was actually dog food.

I can't watch the video now but what I don't understand is were the "student" armed ?

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A video made by white students showing black university employees duped into eating food that had been urinated on has prompted angry protests and criticism that racism remains entrenched in South Africa.The video, which was made last year and surfaced this week, depicted a mock initiation ceremony into a campus residence, with black cleaners portraying students. They were shown on their knees eating food, but were not told about the urine.Authorities at the University of the Free State said Wednesday they were investigating. Two of the students involved left the university last year and the other two have now been barred from campus.The university suspended all classes to allow emotions to calm after a tense morning of protests during which police used a stun grenade to disperse stone-throwing students. Five students were arrested and later released.The university in the city of Bloemfontein is regarded as a bastion for Afrikaaners, who are often linked with white apartheid rule.University authorities have been trying to implement more racial integration at campus dormitories and it was defiance of this policy that apparently prompted the video.Students from the Reitz men's residence filmed the video last year. The middle-aged black cleaners seem to know and trust the students, laughing as they try to eat the food. Unknown to the cleaners, one of the students urinated on the food beforehand, according to the video footage.The four white students, speaking Afrikaans, make sarcastic reference to the university's policy of integrating non-whites.The rector, Professor Frederick Fourie, condemned the video and promised to deal "swiftly and firmly" with the matter, a university spokesman said.Fourie said he met the workers shown on the video and apologized to them.The South African Human Rights Commission said it was investigating complaints that the university actually condoned and allowed violations of human rights and tolerated racism.Education Minister Naledi Pandor also sent a top official to investigate the matter.The premier of the Free State province, Beatrice Marshoff, told a protest march that racist acts at the institution, which had so far gone unreported and unchallenged, would no longer be tolerated.The leader of the white-dominated Democratic Alliance party, Helen Zille, demanded that the human rights commission take action. The country's last white president, FW De Klerk, also condemned the video.Multiracial elections in 1994 ended decades of white rule. But racial undercurrents remain strong even today and permeate almost every aspect of South African society.There was an outcry last week when white journalists were ejected from a meeting of the Forum for Black Journalists addressed by African National Congress President Jacob Zuma. And tensions are high in the Northwest province where a young white man is on trial for killing four blacks, including a mother and her infant, in a shooting rampage. There have also been cases of white farmers accused of shooting blacks and then claiming they mistakenly thought the victim was an animal."This barbaric act does not only denigrate and dehumanize those workers, but is a tip of the iceberg of what workers experience daily at the hands of racists who can't differentiate between a dog, baboon and a human being," the ANC Youth League said.

Source: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j1vdp8gIFc2m7olKlRSPoa3edFLQD8V2TAKO0

200 plus years of indepednence, life liberty and the pursuit of happines was unable to eradiacte racism from the us, can we really expect any better from SA?

Yeah, I also saw that on the news yesterday and it really got me wondering about how old habits die hard. The students and ex-students should be facing some kind of disciplinary action sometime soon, if that is any consolation.

oyb:

200 plus years of indepednence, life liberty and the pursuit of happines was unable to eradiacte racism from the us, can we really expect any better from SA?

I think not.

oyb:

200 plus years of indepednence, life liberty and the pursuit of happines was unable to eradiacte racism from the us, can we really expect any better from SA?

Blacks were SHIPPED to America

The white bastards of SA MET black people there. Seriously that "country" makes me sick.

and y did the do such thing, Listen to the reasons:

"The students of the formerly whites-only Ritz residence made the video in protest against a new hostel INTERGRATION policy at the University of the Free State. The home-made film ends with the words: "That, at the end of the day, is what we think of INTERGRATION"."

intergration is that the blacks and the colored (yea i prefer to use "colored" for them because they r the one that r colored) should live togeher and these idiots r protesting it, for Christ sake these guys are foreigners in that land (i don't want to use "slaves" so that too wont be termed racist)

How was it made made public? read:

University of the Free State staff and students picketed yesterday to show their disgust with the video, which was filmed last September and surfaced on Tuesday - reportedly made public by one of the culprits' jilted girlfriend
is she white?

no wonder gadaffi (abi na who sef) gave them quit notice from zimbabwe, he don know the stuff they r made of

SONS OF BITCHES

D-reloaded:

I just read that

I've always considered SA as being one of the most disgraceful African countries.

Pathetic.

The actions of a few whites should not be used as a yardstick to judge the entire white community in SA. How would you like it if people judge Nigeria with every single religious riot that occurs there?

D-reloaded:

Blacks were SHIPPED to America

The white bastards of SA MET black people there. Seriously that "country" makes me sick.

don't worry the white bastards of amrica met the indians too

texazzpete:

The actions of a few whites should not be used as a yardstick to judge the entire white community in SA. How would you like it if people judge Nigeria with every single religious riot that occurs there?


plenty of nairalanders( who certainly do not need to be named) judge m uslims and northerners that way already.