Students' abuse of black cleaners stuns South Africa

[muriel_volestrangler]

Protests erupted at a South African university after a video emerged of white students racially humiliating five elderly black cleaners.

Police used tear gas to disperse crowds at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein yesterday as detectives began investigating the footage.

In the video, four students from a white-only, male hostel on campus are heard referring to the old Afrikaner way of life before the cleaners are made to drink bottles of beer, run races, play rugby and then kneel and eat meat that had been urinated upon.

Classes have been cancelled and last night the university's rector and vice-chancellor Frederick Fourie was trying to calm the situation. He said the video was made last September, and two of the students had since left. The remaining two had been barred from the university as internal and police investigations began.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/students-abuse-of-black-cleaners-stuns-south-africa-788590.html

Ugh. White racism still exists in its worst forms in South Africa - even among those who grew up after apartheid was officially ended.

[RethugAssKicker]

1. They still are allowed to have "whites only" facilities ?

I'm shocked

[Judi Lynn]

2. I'm sorry, I've got to post more from this vile event. It MUST be witnessed:

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The video was shot after the university announced a *ew integration policy on accommodation for its 18,500 students, ending the practice of black and white students living in separate digs. The footage was filmed in a male-only accommodation block called Reitz.

A narrator on the video says: "Once upon a time the "Boer" lived peacefully here on Reitz Island until one day when the less-advantaged discovered the word 'integration' in the dictionary."

The amateur footage shows garlic being put into a dish full of meat which looks like dog food. The narrator is heard saying: "We know they're less privileged so we're adding a bit of meat." Another student then puts the bowl on the toilet and urinates into the mixture. The concoction is then handed out in plastic glasses to the cleaners.

All five – four women and a man – spit out the first mouthful, but try to finish it amid loud encouragement from the students. The narrator says: "That, at the end of the day, is what we think of integration."

The footage then shows one of the students asking a cleaner: "What does 'sefebe' mean in Afrikaans?" She replies: "A black whore."
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Not only are these men that way, but you surely can assume their families, and maybe neighbors share their sentiments and hatred of people different from themselves, and the impulse to degrade, isolate, and harm others.

Isn't the human race going to evolve even slightly in our lifetimes? What the hell is the use?

[Solly Mack]

3. K&R

I saw the video earlier today. :(