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'Urine Stew' Vid Sparks Furor in S. Africa

Posted Feb 28, 08 1:19 PM CST in World 

(Newser) – South Africans have reacted with outrage and violence to a homemade video showing white college students forcing black employees to eat dirty meat and soup mixed with urine. The four Afrikaners, who don't disguise their faces, made the video to protest racial integration at the formerly all-white University of the Free State, reports the Mail & Guardian. Classes were suspended yesterday as staff and students marched in protest, and police fired stun grenades at one crowd.

The video has sparked a nationwide outcry. The country's Human Rights Commission has begun an investigation, and the youth wing of the ruling African National Congress called the students' behavior "barbaric." The university's student body has remained mostly white even after apartheid, and some students, despite the video, remain opposed to a mandatory integration program.

Sources Mail & Guardian (South Africa), Times (UK)

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This TV grab taken from South African news station ETV on February 27, 2008 shows a white South African university student forcing black workers to take part in a number of acts including eating meat...   (AFP)
South African students stage a demonstration in protest against a video recording of black workers made to perform degrading acts by white students made by four white students on February 27, 2008 in...   (AFP)
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...   (AFP)
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