A racist South African video made by white university students to protest integration is sparking outrage and riots in the streets of South Africa. Four Black university staff members in post-apartheid South Africa were abused, humiliated and deceived by 4 white students into eating stew tainted with urine. The incident took place last September at the University of the Free State in South Africa.Here is the Times coverage of the incident. Click here to watch CNN coverage of the controversial video.
The video itself appears to have been posted as a twisted protest by racist students against plans to integrate university dorms. It opens with a voiceover in Afrikaans that says: "Once upon a time the Boers lived happily here on Reitz island, until the day the less advantaged discovered the word 'integration' in the dictionary."
The 10-minute film then moves on to a series of scenes in which black cleaners — four women and a man — are shown drinking bottles of beer in a race that the commentary describes as "down-downs," then taking part in a running race. In a final scene, what appears to be pet food is shown being mixed with garlic in a bowl. One of the four students then takes the bowl to a toilet, and is filmed urinating in it. The bowl is then heated in a microwave, divided into five plastic cups and handed to the cleaners, who are kneeling on the floor. The students shout at the cleaners to eat it. Two immediately spit it out; the three that eat it are then presented with a bottle of whisky. The video ends with an on screen message, also in Afrikaans, which translates as: "That, in the end, is what we think of integration." source
According to the BBC News several of the white student face criminal charges after forcing campus employees to eat food they had urinated on. On Wednesday hundreds of Black students and workers protested and planned to call a strike on March 6th as part of a anti-racism campaign.
"It's not only the University of Free State," said Siviwe Vamva from the South African Students Congress. "We are saying that all these issues must be brought forward so that all the people of South Africa can see that racism is still a dominant feature in South African society."
The South African Institute of Race Relations has said this incident and several others over the past month could threaten general improvements in race relations since the end of apartheid.
The institute also condemned the shooting of four black people by a white youth, and the decision by the Forum for Black Journalists to evict a white journalist from a meeting.
But it is the final extract of the film that has angered members of the public. It shows a white male urinating on food, and then - shouting: "Take! Take!" in Afrikaans - apparently forcing the campus employees to eat the dirty food, and causing them to vomit. The alleged perpetrators are current or former students at the University of the Free State, say reports. Its rector, Frederick Fourie, told the BBC that he was "extremely upset about the incident". "We are having a management meeting. And there's a strong condemnation of this from everybody concerned," he said. The university says it has begun procedures to suspend the students allegedly implicated in the video, and says the alleged victims have received psychological support. source
UPDATE WATCH THE SOUTH AFRICAN - RACIST MOCK INITIATION CEREMONY (VIDEO) WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT The white students filmed themselves concocting a disgustingly vile mixture of what they said was meat and garlic. They further went on to film one of the white students un-do his pants and maliciously urinate directly into the mixture prior to feeding it to the Black workers. The video was reportedly leaked by one of the white student's scorned girlfriend.
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